These rankings are based on four primary factors: WAR (Wins Above Replacement) according to baseball-reference.com, WAR according to fangraphs.com, peak WAR, and Playing Time. Playing Time (plate appearances for hitters and innings pitched for pitchers) is adjusted to match the scale of WAR by dividing career PA by 300 or career IP by 120. IContinue reading “From Banks to Buckner”
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An Introduction
I’ve been collecting the Chicago Cubs since I was a teenager, beginning with my first favorite player: Sammy Sosa. I started a Sosa collection somewhere around 1995, before he became SAMMY. Then 1998 hit, and that pile of 90 Leafs I had accumulated for $2 a piece suddenly didn’t seem so ridiculous. Thus began myContinue reading “An Introduction”