In this month’s check of the competition between farm systems, we encounter the all-time single season record for organizational Win Share Production.

Steve’s inquiry into the follow-the-bouncing-ball scoring conditions of the 1980s and 1990s concludes with examination of the very best talents of the era.

This time we see the impact of the fluctuating 1988-2000 scoring conditions on the game’s great players—but not quite the very greatest, yet.

It’s time for Round Two in the look at how individual player stats were shaped by the conditions impacting MLB offensive production from 1988 through 2000.

It was a long and winding run-production road from 1987 to 2001. In the first of a three-parter, Steve examines how differently things might have looked had the path, reaching the same destination, been a little straighter

Speaking of Curt Flood, Steve examines the extraordinary baseball talent produced by Flood’s home town.

Not until nearly four decades after Curt Flood spoke truth to power did his first biography appear, but this year we’ve been treated to two. Steve provides his perspective on the second.

The competition for talent production enters the expansion era, and the National League’s edge grows stronger than ever.

Where were you in ’72? Here we’ll find out what minor league aces were up to.

Beginning with Bret himself, with such a Mickey Vernon-esque career.