Tuesday, the Baseball Hall of fame announced its newest inductees, catcher Carlton Fisk and first baseman Tony Perez. Here’s a brief Baseball Prospectus look at each player. Carlton Fisk NAME AGE YR TEAM AB H DB TP HR BB+ SB CS OUT RUN RBI BA OBA SA UEQR EQA EQR RAR WAR CARLTON FISK 21…
ANAHEIM ANGELS Signed LHP Greg Cadaret to a minor-league contract. [1/5] Signed 2B/3B Scott Spiezio to a one-year contract, and IFs Pat Kelly and Jason Bates to minor-league contracts. [1/7] Unless Keith Luuloa convinces a Disney exec that Sneezy was the Hawaiian-American dwarf, Spiezio has a lock on the Angel second-base job. There are a…
Many thanks to the record 518 participants in this ninth edition of the STATLG-L Hall of Fame voting. The results are in the book … and nobody won. None of the 30 players on this year’s Baseball Writers Association of America ballot were named on the requisite 75% of the submitted votes. Fact is, no…
Since the original appearance of " Field General or Backstop?" in last year’s Baseball Prospectus, we’re received a great deal of praise and compliments on the article, for which we’re grateful. We’ve also received some thoughtful criticism that is worth responding to (there’s also been some not so thoughtful criticism, but that’s what the Delete…