Recently, the New York Mets welcomed to their active roster Michael Conforto. Conforto was the 10th overall pick in the 2014 draft. Much heralded he spent just a brief period of time in the lower minors before his call-up in July, 2015. So what is so special about him? Well it turns out he was …
Month: July 2015
On July, 17 1941, Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak came to an end. The title of this blog comes from the book Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports by Kostya Kennedy. His book takes the reader through each game of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak at a time when America was preparing for war …
Although it is an older movie from 1993, I finally watched “The Sandlot” which tells the story of 9 boys between the ages of 12 and 13 playing baseball during the summer of 1962. Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood. He has no friends until he is friended by a boy in …
An article from the Wall Street Journal used data from Statsllc to compare the hitting and pitching statistics between the 1969 Amazin’ Mets and the 2015 edition of the Mets. These statistics are through June for both the 1969 Mets and 2015 Mets. In the pitching statistics that follow the top four starting pitchers in …