SABR - BBTF Chapter: SABR 44 Dates Announced

Deep inna hearta:

SABR is pleased to announce that the SABR 44 national convention will be held July 30-August 3, 2014 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, Texas.

The Royal Sonesta is at 2222 W Loop S Fwy., Houston, TX 77027. Hotel rate and conference registration information for the 2014 convention will be available later this fall.

SABR 44 will be our first convention held in the Lone Star State in 20 years; our 24th annual convention was held in Arlington, Texas, in 1994. During SABR ...

Jim's Lab Notes: We’re Back Up!

We are finally back up!

Starting a few days ago our server host, burstnet.net, began moving all their servers to another location. To let clients know, they sent a single generic message about the move to all their clients about a week before the planned migration. As they should have expected, the email they sent to me got filtered into my spam folder. Not unexpectedly, I didn’t see the message.

To make sure something like this didn’t happen they should have requested their clients ...

Newsblog: BBTF SOFTBALL GAME IN NEW YORK—AUG 17 NEW THREAD

New thread for the softball game next month. August 17th at 11 am at Field #3 in the North Meadow.

Newsblog: Draft signings

Post ‘em as you got ‘em

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 1979 Ballot

For 1979, each voter should rank their top 13 players from both leagues combined.

Balloting is scheduled to close at 4pm EST on 06 March 2013.

Anyone can vote, even if you do not normally participate in Hall of Merit discussions. If have never participated in an MMP election, just post a preliminary ballot in the discussion thread by 04 March 2013.

For detailed rules see one of our previous ballots.

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 1978 Ballot

For 1978, each voter should rank their top 13 players from both leagues combined.

Balloting will close at 4pm EST on 06 February 2013.

Anyone can vote, even if you do not normally participate in Hall of Merit discussions. If have never participated in an MMP election, just post a preliminary ballot in the discussion thread by 04 February 2013.

For detailed rules see one of our previous ballots.

Hall of Merit: 2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!

The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.

Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 1971 Ballot

Here are the specific rules for this election:
Candidate Eligibility: Any North American professional baseball player is eligible for the Most Meritorious Player (MMP) award including players in the top Negro Leagues or independent teams. Voters should consider the player’s on-field contribution to Major League Baseball (MLB) team(s) in that season only. If part of the season was spent outside MLB, that value may be considered as well. However, the player’s on-field contribution should be ...

Hall of Merit: Most Meritorious Player: 1970 Results

Another close result, and congratulations to Carl Yastrzemski, 1970’s Most Meritorious Player!

Newsblog: Sean Forman talks to MLB Network

If you can’t get enough of Baseball-Reference.com’s Sean Forman (and if you know Sean no one would blame you), here’s his television debut on the MLB Nework.

Enjoy!!