Now that the Red Sox equipment truck is headed to spring training in Fort Myers, FL, the 144th consecutive season of professional baseball in Boston is underway! We are celebrating by changing our masthead above to note this fact. Boston’s 144 consecutive seasons is the most in major league baseball—in fact the most in the world. Chicago is second with 142 [...]
A New Statistic for a New Offensive Era By: Herb Crehan with Jackson Dunnell OPS, on-base percentage plus slugging average, has achieved acceptance as the single-best offensive measure of a player’s value to his team. On-base percentage quantifies a player’s ability to get on base, whether it is through a hit, a walk or a hit-by-pitch. Slugging average use [...]
Raise your hand if you thought the Boston Red Sox would win the 2013 World Championship when spring training came to an end in March. And keep it up if you thought the Red Sox would win three World Championships in the next ten seasons right after the Yankee’s Aaron Boone broke our hearts in Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS! The triumphs of the past ten seasons [...]
My interview on the 2013 Improbable Dream Boston Red Sox and its place in Boston baseball history was published by Forbes on November 4, 2013. Warning to Yankee fans: you may not like reading that the Red Sox have been the dominant team of the first two decades of the 20th and 21st century! www.forbes.com A special thank you goes to Richard M. Salsman for u [...]
We were interviewed for NPR's "All Things Considered" on October 31, 2013. Our interview with Sacha Pfieffer of WBUR covers Red Sox History and the 2013 World Championship. Please follow this link to the pod cast and transcript: www.wbur.org [...]