Author: Ken Clawson
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OPS – Its Bias and Shortcomings
My thoughts This article was published in our July 2023 Chapter Newsletter. It has been re-edited a bit and added to. To read the original article click here. I recently completed reading A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics by Anthony Castrovince. In an early chapter he introduced OPS (on-base plus slugging) as an easy and…
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MLB Players Born in the Region
The Top 10 by WAR The Tampa Bay region has been the birthplace of 195 major league players thus far. This number includes a handful of Negro League players added to the rolls this year (2024) by MLB as well as a handful from Pasco and Hernando counties. Thus far three Hall of Famers were…
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Spring Training in the Region
In the Beginning… While Spring Training made it to Florida (Jacksonville) in 1888, it did not reach central and west Florida until 1913. The reason? Transportation. The East Coast teams had a choice of taking a steamer or a train to Jacksonville while inland teams could get there via train. Neither way was practical below…