A few days ago, baseball celebrated the 100th birthday of arguably the greatest NL first baseman of the 20th century, Johnny Mize. Today, the game has the 75th birthday of Mize’s main competitor for that honor, San Francisco Giants great Willie McCovey. Sure, 75 isn’t quite as nice a big, round number as 100, but […]

Well, in a way I can claim I was right in my annual Cooperstown prediction piece. Oh, not in the ways that mattered, no. I predicted Craig Biggio would get elected today. The results just came out, and Biggio fell short, well short. He scored just 68 percent of the vote, well below the 76 […]

If you’re anything like me, your favorite part of the New Year’s celebration is The Twilight Zone marathon that airs on the SyFy Channel. It usually features some of the most iconic episodes in the history of the groundbreaking series, the creation of the brilliant mind of Rod Serling. Inevitably, I look for ways to […]

We’ve started a Change.org petition to ask the Hall of Fame Board of Directors to change their voting process. It’s related to my article today (Time to push the reset button) and can be found at this link: Petition to Change the Hall of Fame’s Voting Process If you believe that the Hall’s voting process […]

One hundred years ago today, one of the greatest first baseman in National League history was born: Johnny Mize. If you read much in sabermetric circles, and especially if you read much about Hall of Fame arguments, you’ll hear some talk about how Mize might be the best Hall of Famer the BBWAA ever took […]

In football, teams have the ability to mark one of their players with the “Franchise” tag. One use of the franchise tag is to delay a player’s free agency for one season by paying him the average of the top five salaries at his position. Teams cannot apply the tag to the same player two […]

40,000 days ago, baseball had one of its most horrible moments. It wasn’t an in-game issue but an off-the-field death. The date was July 2, 1903. You may have heard of that date because it’s the title of a book, a book about the death of turn-of-the-century star Ed Delahanty. In his prime, Big Ed […]

I’ve received a few questions about THT Forecasts, which have been available on the THT website for the past three years. We have decided to drop our THT Forecasts in 2013 and I’ve removed the link to them from our navigation. However, look for Oliver projections on Fangraphs at some point in 2013. Brian Cartwright’s […]

In discussing the complications surrounding the review of candidates from “the Steroid Era” for the Hall of Fame, sportswriter Peter Gammons accidentally tapped into the real root of the problem: “What I find is that there is no guidebook to what entails a Hall of Famer or a manual defining the criteria. Most of us […]

40 years ago today was a big day in the history of the New York Yankees. Their owner, CBS, sold the club to a businessman named George Steinbrenner. At a sticker value of $10 million, this turned out to be quite a nice deal for Mr. Steinbrenner. And it turned out to be a nice […]