Baseball Historians

John Sickels wrote an interesting article on the top prospects from 2000.  He rates them in an interesting way by putting them in order of win shares.  Pat Burrell was the 3rd rated prospect from that class, and he was 5th on the win share list.  It’s an interesting look at who was hot then, […]

If 1973 was a disappointing season for Mike Schmidt, 1974 was a break out season.  In the Phillies home opener, Schmidt homered and drove in two runs as the eighth hitter in the lineup.  While Schmidt would hit eighth for most of April, he finished the month hitting .300/.425/.467.  He had only three homers that […]

 Mike Schimidt’s Hall of Fame career didn’t get off to a good start.  in fact in Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, James listed Mike Schmidt as having the worst rookie season of any player who’s in the Hall of Fame.  The only thing Schmidt seemed to do well was strikeout.  In only 367 at bats, Schmidt struck out […]

For those of you who don’t stop by A Citizen’s Blog (why aren’t you) regularly, he’s recently been doing some fantastic columns that focus on the Wiz Kids and the 1950 Phillies.  The two latest columns are on Curt Simmons and Robin Roberts.