This Week in SABR: December 4, 2020

December 4, 2020/in This Week in SABR /by sabr

Welcome to “This Week in SABR!” Click here to view this week’s newsletter on the web. Here’s what we’ve been up to as of December 4, 2020:

Bob Costas, Tim Mead to headline virtual SABR Day program on January 30

SABR commemorates its 50th anniversary in 2021 and will launch its year-long celebration with SABR Day on Saturday, January 30. SABR Day will be hosted virtually around the globe for the first time, giving baseball fans a chance to come together — wherever they live — to share their love of the game.

Headlining the program will be a conversation with broadcasting legend Bob Costas of MLB Network. The 2018 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame will bring his renowned passion and knowledge of baseball in a special session for SABR Day attendees.

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum President Tim Mead will also be featured during this special event. Mead spent nearly four decades in the Los Angeles Angels organization, including 22 years as Vice President of Communications, before assuming oversight of the Hall of Fame’s operations in 2019.

“We are honored and thrilled to have Bob Costas and Tim Mead join us for the first-ever virtual SABR Day,” SABR CEO Scott Bush said. “There is not a better way to lead off our Golden Anniversary and we excitedly look forward to sharing SABR with the entire baseball community.”

SABR Day registration will be free for SABR members. A $10 donation will be requested of non-members. Click here to register online.

The virtual SABR Day program will run from 2:00-4:00 p.m. EST on January 30.

Say goodbye to 2020 with 20% off SABR Gift Memberships

2020 has been a tough year for everyone, but it’s not all bad news to close out the calendar. Now you can share your love of baseball with a great deal on SABR Gift Memberships!

Give the baseball fan in your life the holiday gift of SABR and you’ll get 20% off their new membership, just in time to say goodbye (and good riddance) to 2020.

For fans who can’t get enough baseball, especially when visiting a ballpark isn’t an option, a SABR membership offers unparalleled access to the game’s most important research and histories within a like-minded community of fellow enthusiasts.

Click here to purchase a gift membership and enter the promotional code GOODBYE2020 (case sensitive) on the final billing page. Click “Apply Code” to receive the 20% discount on your gift membership dues.

Visit SABR.org/goodbye-2020 to learn more about registering for someone else and how to keep your gift a surprise.

Early registration now open for 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference

Early registration is now open for the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, which will be held over four days in online sessions from March 11-14, 2021. We’ll bring together the top minds in the baseball analytics community to discuss, debate, and share insightful ways to analyze and examine the great game of baseball. Register today to join us!

Programming will run on Thursday and Friday evening from 6:30-9:00 p.m. Eastern, all day Saturday from 12:00-8:00 p.m. Eastern, and Sunday afternoon from 1:00-5:00 p.m. EDT.

Registration: Click here to register for the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference. Early-bird registration is $75 for SABR members, $100 for non-members, and $50 for currently enrolled high school or college students (includes one-year SABR membership). Students should email Scott Carter with a photo of their student ID to receive the discounted registration link.
Yoseloff Scholarship: Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference. Deadline: December 31, 2020.
Research Awards: We’re seeking nominations for the 2021 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards. Deadline: December 31, 2020.

Stay tuned for more details on guest speakers, panelists, and presenters! Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more.

Join SABR’s Golden Lineup to help us celebrate our 50th Anniversary!

With the holiday season upon us and our Golden Anniversary around the corner, we want to thank you for your continuing support of SABR. Gifts from members like you make it possible to sustain and grow SABR into the future.

All donors joining SABR’s Golden Lineup with a $100 gift or more will receive a copy of From Rube to Robinson, our anthology of research celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Negro Leagues. Donors supporting SABR with a gift of $500 or more will also receive a miniature Rawlings Gold Glove Award replica and be entered to win the SABR Golden Ticket. The winner of the SABR Golden Ticket will receive:

Lifetime membership to SABR
All expenses paid to a SABR conference of their choice
Attend the 2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award Banquet in New York City

To learn more, or to join SABR’s Golden Lineup, visit SABR.org/donate/2020.

Friends of SABR: November 2020

Here is a list of SABR supporters for the month of November 2020:

NAME		NAME
Dean Abelon		Daniel Linnenberg
Arthur Ahrens		Ed Lockett
David Alvarez		Thomas Love
Mark Armour		Joseph Luchok
Kirk Arnott		Jim Lurie
Hugh Atkins		William Macht
John Azevedo		David Mahon
Lawrence Baldassaro		Erik Malinowski
Jack Bales		Peter Mancuso
Ed Baranoski		Sam Marchiano
Lawrence Baum		Thomas Mazza
John Belknap		Thomas McCauley
Michael Bender		Thomas McGrath
Harvey Berger		Dave McHugh
Jay Berman		Barry Mednick
Lynn Bevill		Sheldon Miller
Thomas Biblewski		Alan Molin
Barry Bloom		Brad Moody
David Bohmer		Alan Morris
Thomas Bradley		Jim Mullany
John Brooks		Jim Myers
D. Bruce Brown		Roderic Nelson
Joseph Buckley		Thomas Nester
John Burbridge III		Bill Nowlin
Ken Carrano		Daniel O’Brien
Bo Carter		Virgilio Partida
Angel Castillo		David Paulson
Dave Chase		Scott Pawlikowski
Mike Chibbaro		Gregg Pericich
Dennis Christensen		Adrien Pilon
William Cohon		Ann Poser
Vincent Comparato		Lou Profumo
Justin Compton		Robert Pusateri
Peter Coolbaugh		Roger Raepple
Warren Corbett		Carl Rhoads
Jim Cox		Ned Ribback
Harrington Crissey		Pat Riley
Tom Cuggino		Ed Rimer
Richard Cuicchi		James Rook
Deb Dagavarian-Bonar		Norman Rosenberg
Eric Danoff		John Rosenfelder
Dennis Degenhardt		Michael Rosenwasser
Susan Dellinger		Harry Rothgerber
Frank DeSantis		Charles Roussel
Tom DiGiandomenico		Stephen Russell
Peter Donhauser		Bob Russon
Thomas Dunn		Robert Ruzzo
Ed Edmonds		Gary Sarnoff
Vernona Elms		Edward Scahill
Steven Elsberry		William Scheeren
Dan Epstein		Michael Schell
Donald Etheridge		Jason Scheller
Mike Fallona		John Schettle
Joseph Favano		John Schleppi
John Fedinatz		Harry Schoger
Diane Firstman		Douglas Schoppert
Scott Fischthal		Bobby Score
Jack Fitzpatrick		Mike Segal
F. X. Flinn		Jeff Self
Adam Foldes		David Serota
Edward Fong		Punch Shaw
Gary Frownfelter		Thomas Shrimplin
Thomas Galligan		Ira Siegel
Mark Galus		Leonard Skonecki
Roy Gedat		Linda Skory
Gloria Getty		David Smith
Ted Giannoulas		Culver Smith
Michael Gibbons		Janet Marie Smith
David Girdany		Mark Souder
Gene Gomes		Lyle Spatz
John Gottko		Ralph Spelbring
John Green		Alec Stais
Steven Greenes		Thomas Still
David Hartmann		Thomas Stone
Roger Hawks		Wesley Story
Leslie Heaphy		James Sullivan
Joseph Helyar		John Swistak
Kent Henderson		Cecilia Tan
William Hickman		Timothy Tangen
Brenda Himrich		Joseph Thompson
Rockwell Hoffman		John Thorn
Perry Huang		Stew Thornley
David Hughes		Crofty Thorp
Joanne Hulbert		Bill Tiedeman
Daniel Ingellis		Jessica, Albert and Erin Tjardes
Alma Ivor-Campbell		James Tootle
Donald Jensen		Richard B Tourangeau
Robert Johnson		Greg Tranter
Rick Johnson		Neal Traven
Brent Kallestad		Louis Verardo
Harry Keller		Marlene Vogelsang
Robert Kenney		Donald Ward
Karl Knickrehm		Kenneth Weber
Mary Knox		Steve West
Andrew Kraus		Kent Whitaker
Robert Kravetz		Susan White
Kit Krieger		J. R. Wildridge
Justin Krueger		Charles Wilkins
Don Lagomarsino		Frank Williams
Bill Lamb		Bob Wilson
Steven Landau		Jeffrey Wood
William Larson		Tony Yoseloff
Robert Leonard		Jamison Young
Harry Lesser		Alan Zimmer
Ira Levine		Don Zminda
Michael Levine		Thomas Zocco
Robert Lewis

Want to become a Friend of SABR? Click here to make a recurring monthly contribution or click here to learn more about our Giving Circles to make a one-time contribution.

Apply now to participate in the 2021 Diamond Dollars Virtual Case Competition

The 2021 Diamond Dollars Virtual Case Competition will be held online from 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. EST on Friday, March 12, 2021, as part of the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference.

Register: Click here to register your team for the 2021 Diamond Dollars Virtual Case Competition. Registration is $995 per team, which includes admission to all SABR Virtual Analytics Conference sessions and a one-year SABR membership for each participants. Please include your school name, along with names and contact information for up to 5 participants.
Questions: Please contact Vince Gennaro with any questions about participating.

Visit SABR.org/analytics/case to learn more.

Students, apply now for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference

With generous funding from The Anthony A. Yoseloff Foundation, Inc., SABR will award up to eight scholarships to high school and college students who wish to attend the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference on March 11-14, 2021. This scholarship will pay for all registration fees and expenses associated with the conference.

Download an application form: Click here to apply for a Yoseloff Scholarship to attend the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference

The objective of this scholarship fund is to encourage student engagement with baseball analytics, and to engender an active interest in baseball research and SABR.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

Join us for more Stay Home With SABR virtual events

SABR chapters and committees are encouraged to set up virtual meetings to stay engaged with our members throughout the world at SABR.org, as part of our Stay Home With SABR initiative to assist in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

This week, we heard from Daniel Papillon on baseball in Quebec City and Bill Nowlin, Andy Sharp, and Tony Valley on SABR’s Baseball’s Biggest Blowout Games.

Here are some more upcoming virtual events you can attend online; check the Events Calendar for complete details:

December 5: Northwest Ohio Chapter meeting (9:00 a.m. EST)
December 5: Talkin’ Baseball: Ryan Swanson (9:00 a.m. EST)
December 5: Allan Roth Chapter meeting with Marshall Garvey and Bill Nowlin (10:00 a.m. PST)
December 5: Harriet Kimbro Hamilton virtual book launch party (4:30 p.m. EST)
December 8: 19th Century Speaker Series with Bill Humber (8:00 p.m. EST)
December 9: Baltimore Babe Ruth Chapter meeting with Thomas Gilbert (6:00 p.m. EST)
December 9: Pop Lloyd (NE Florida) Chapter meeting (7:00 p.m. EST)
December 9: Ken Keltner (Wisconsin) Chapter book club meeting with Jane Leavy (7:00 p.m. CST)
December 12: Jack Graney (Ohio) Chapter meeting with Sean Gibson (10:00 a.m. EST)
December 12: Halsey Hall (Minnesota) Chapter book club meeting (9:30 a.m. CST)
December 12: Baseball Reminiscence meeting (4:00 p.m. EST)
December 13: Rogers Hornsby (Texas) Chapter meeting (1:00 p.m. CST)

Find more upcoming virtual meetings on our SABR Events Calendar page.

Click here to view replays of any SABR virtual event in 2020.

Nineteenth Century Committee virtual Speaker Series resumes next week

SABR’s Ninteenth Century Committee’s monthly series of virtual research presentations continues next week with a special talk by Bill Humber, “A Thoroughly Modern Ballplayer: The Imaginative, Illicit and Improbable Life of Bob Addy” at 8:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, December 8. All SABR members are invited to attend.

The 19cBB Speakers Series consists of research presentations presented at the Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference (“The Fred”). They will be re-presented each second Tuesday of the month through May 2021. The starting time for each session will be 8:00 p.m. ET and they will run for one hour.

Click here to sign up for Nineteenth Century Committee email announcements to receive the Zoom meeting details. Virtual space is limited to approximately 100 attendees.

Retrosheet announces Fall 2020 updates

It is with great pleasure that I announce the semiannual update to the Retrosheet website for Fall 2020. There are many aspects to the new release.

With the superb help of Dr. Ted Turocy, we were able to collect the play-by-play of all 898 regular season games played in 2020 plus all the postseason games. There are now on our website at retrosheet.org/game.htm.

The attendance and time of game records in hundreds of games have been corrected — many entered for the first time — again thanks to Rob Wood. He also led a major campaign to get our ejection data in much better shape. We have added almost 150 ejections to the list since we first released the file in July. There are now 18,132 entries at retrosheet.org/eject.htm.

Click here to read the full announcement at SABR.org.

— David W. Smith

SABR office continuing to work remotely

The SABR office, housed at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona, has been closed indefinitely due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Staff members will work remotely until it is advisable to resume normal operations on-site.

Please contact a member of the SABR staff by email or phone with any questions.

SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Listen to an interview with SABR Board President Mark Armour

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer.

Episode #88 on Monday, November 30 featured Mark Armour, who is the author of many baseball articles and several books, including most recently In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball (with Dan Levitt) and Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball. In 2002, he spearheaded the formation of SABR’s Baseball Biography Project — which has now contributed more than 5,000 biographical articles and a number of books to the game’s literature — and he served as the BioProject’s director until 2016. He was also the guest for SABRcast Episode #41 in January 2020.

Visit SABR.org/sabrcast to listen to the full episode.

Subscribe to SABRcast on your favorite podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play, and listen to each episode as soon as it’s released on Mondays. To learn more, visit SABR.org/sabrcast.

4 new SABR biographies published

Four new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project. Here are the new bios published this week:

Bart Cantz, by Paul Winter
Shawon Dunston, by Thomas J. Brown Jr.
Charlie Hoover, by Paul Winter
Milt Reed, by Darren Gibson

All new biographies can be found here: SABR.org/bioproject

Find any SABR biography: You can visit sabr.org/bioproject to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. In addition, we have pages for Ballparks, Broadcasters, Executives, Games, Managers, Scouts, Spouses, Umpires, Writers, people who were Famous Outside Baseball, and a lot more.
Seeking authors for 2021 Hall of Fame candidates: As part of our BioProject Hall of Fame Ballot initiative, we are still seeking authors for all of the first-time players on this year’s ballot, including Mark Buehrle, Tim Hudson, Aramis Ramírez, Shane Victorino, and Barry Zito. Please contact bioassign@sabr.org if you are interested in writing about one of these players.
Sign up to view Trello submission pipeline: Chief Editor Rory Costello has made the BioProject submission pipeline visible to project contributors using the signboard app Trello. If you would like to see the pipeline — to know where your story stands in the review process or how many articles we have in the system — e-mail Rory for an invitation to become an observer.

4 new stories published by the SABR Games Project

Four new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories — which are part of our First Games Back project:

July 23, 2020: Baseball returns to Washington without fans on Opening Day, by Steven C. Weiner
July 24, 2020: Long delayed but lopsided Opening Day win for Red Sox, by Bill Nowlin
July 24, 2020: Cardinals top Pirates on Opening Day delayed by COVID-19, by Tom Schott
July 28, 2020: Twins highlight George Floyd and racial justice in home opener, by Stew Thornley

In addition, new stories were posted this week from The Babe (SABR, 2019), edited by Bill Nowlin and Glen Sparks:

July 11, 1914: Babe Ruth makes his major-league debut with Red Sox, by Joe Schuster
October 2, 1914: A sign of so many swats to come: Babe Ruth doubles for first big-league hit, by Mark S. Sternman
May 20, 1916: Babe Ruth replaced in 6th inning while throwing a no-hitter, by Bill Nowlin
June 13, 1916: Red-hot Babe Ruth goes on a tear against the Browns, James Forr
August 15, 1916: Boston’s Babe Ruth outlasts Walter Johnson in 13 innings, by Jack Zerby
May 20, 1919: Babe Ruth clobbers his first career grand slam, by Skip Nipper
July 9, 1920: Bambino homers on Babe Ruth Day at the Polo Grounds, by Stew Thornley
July 19, 1920: Babe Ruth breaks his own record with 30th home run, by Tim Rask
August 7, 1929: Babe Ruth goes deep as Yankees split with A’s at Shibe Park, by Thomas E. Schott
October 1, 1933: Lefty Ruth all right in final mound appearance, by Ed Gruver
May 30, 1935: Babe Ruth plays his final major-league game with Boston Braves, by Thomas J. Brown Jr.
June 19, 1938: Babe Ruth makes coaching debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers, by Glen Sparks
July 4, 1939: Lou Gehrig says farewell to baseball with ‘Luckiest Man’ speech at Yankee Stadium, by Paul Hofmann
April 27, 1947: Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium, by Joe Schuster
June 13, 1948: Babe Ruth makes final visit to Yankee Stadium, by Glen Sparks

New Games Project stories can be found at SABR.org/gamesproject.

Get involved: Have memories of a game you attended? Or a game you watched that caught your interest? Write about it! Writing for the Games Project is an easy way to get involved as a SABR member. Find out how by reading the Games Project FAQs section or checking out the Authors’ Guidelines. We have editors and fact checkers who are willing to help you write your first article.
Social media: Follow the SABR Games Project on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with new stories and updates.
Read all stories from Comiskey Park greatest games book: Click here to read all stories from The Base Ball Palace of the World: Comiskey Park (SABR, 2019), edited by Gregory H. Wolf, online at the SABR Games Project.

Listen to a new episode of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM on Saturdays

Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a radio show hosted by former SABR Board President Vince Gennaro, is back at a new time. Listen to new episodes at 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET on Saturdays on MLB Network Radio.

You can also listen to archives of recent episodes on-demand on the SiriusXM Internet Radio app.

Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM focuses on examining and interpreting the statistical analysis that plays a critical role in baseball today. It airs weekly throughout the year on MLB Network Radio, available to subscribers nationwide on XM channel 89, Sirius channel 209, and on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App.

In Memoriam: Skip McAfee

Former SABR Treasurer Robert “Skip” McAfee Jr., 82, died on November 22, of complications from Parkinson’s disease and dementia in a nursing home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

McAfee joined SABR in 1979 and served on the Board of Directors from 1987-90. He developed the organization’s original policy manual and chaired the committee responsible for selecting research presentations at the annual convention. He was a regular at the Bob Davids Chapter’s “Talkin’ Baseball” meetings in Columbia, Maryland, and supplied the trivia questions that kicked off each gathering.

A prolific baseball historian, McAfee was a close collaborator of Paul Dickson, serving as editor of the acclaimed Dickson Baseball Dictionary. McAfee also edited the newsletter for SABR’s Bibliography Committee, indexed numerous baseball books, and regularly attended the annual Symposium on Baseball and American Culture held in Cooperstown, New York.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 50 years, Laurice, and he is survived by his daughters Megan and Taylor, their husbands, and five grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations in Skip’s memory may be sent to Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia, Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7248 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045.

Call for SABR award nominations

Seymour Medal (history/biography books; deadline: 12/31/2020)
SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards (baseball analytics research; deadline: 12/31/2020)
Larry Ritter Book Award (Deadball Era books; deadline: 12/31/2020)
Ron Gabriel Award (Brooklyn Dodgers research; deadline: 12/31/2020)
Russell Gabay Award (New Jersey baseball; deadline: 12/31/2020)
SABR Baseball Research Award (outstanding research articles/projects: deadline: 1/31/2021)
McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award (best history/biography articles; deadline: 2/15/2021)

Please note: Only ONE entry per nomination will be considered (do not submit multiple nominations for the same award). For more information on SABR Awards, click here.

ICYMI: Highlights from last week’s This Week in SABR

Here are some major headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:

All previous editions of This Week in SABR can be found here: https://sabr.org/content/this-week-in-sabr-archives.

Welcome, new members!

We’d like to welcome all of our new SABR members who have joined this week. You can find all Members-Only resources at members.sabr.org and the Membership Handbook can be downloaded here.

Please give these new members a warm welcome and help them make the most of their membership by giving them the opportunity to get involved in their local chapter or a research committee.

You can find contact information for any SABR member in the online Membership Directory.

Name	Hometown	Name	Hometown
Bobby Ali	Griffin, GA	Bob Kenney	Kensington, MD
Luis Belman	E. Bernard, TX	Devin Mackey	Westerville, OH
Carol Brown	Austin, TX	Daniel Martin	Baltimore, MD
Carol Castle	Minneapolis, MN	Adam McFadden	Lowell, MA
John Cook	Helena, AL	Ira Megdal	Cherry Hill, NJ
Murray Cook	Roanoke, VA	Thomas Murphy	Marietta, GA
Earnie Granville	San Antonio, TX	Victor Oberting	Loudonville, NY
Chris Gregoire	Saco, ME	Rick Pearce	Fogelsville, PA
Adam Henig	San Martin, CA	Rowland Russell	Keene, NH
Steve Hoffmann	Milwaukee, WI	Robert Schwarz	Johnstown, PA
Mary Hums	Louisville, KY	Zakris Stromqvist	Vattholma, SWE
Steve Hutson	El Cerrito, CA	Alec Strickling	Fullerton, CA
James Juip	Calumet, MI	Yusuke Suzumura	Nagoya, JPN
Raphael Kasper	Oakland, CA	Richard Wittig	El Mirage, AZ

Research Committee news

Here are the new research committee updates this week:

Negro Leagues: December 2020 newsletter

Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research/committees.

Regional Chapter news

Here are the new regional chapter updates this week:

Boston Chapter: Read a new “Dispatches From the Mudville Bureau,” by Joanne Hulbert (Boston, MA)
Halsey Hall Chapter: December 2020 newsletter (Minneapolis, MN)
Ottawa Chapter: SABR welcomes new international chapter in Canada (Ottawa, ON)
Rickwood Field Chapter: December 2020 newsletter (Birmingham, AL)

Visit SABR.org/chapters for more information on SABR regional chapters.

SABR Events Calendar

Scroll up to the top of this newsletter to learn more about the upcoming virtual events on the SABR calendar.

We strongly recommend that all SABR chapters follow CDC public health guidelines and your local/state government regulations when scheduling any in-person meetings and events.

Find details on all upcoming meetings on our SABR Events Calendar page.

Around the Web

Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:

Hannah Keyser: Remembering the biggest baseball fan I know: A look at what we lost this year (Yahoo! Sports)
Jen McCaffrey: How FanGraphs catapulted from ‘super nerd’ site to the baseball mainstream (The Athletic)
Rob Arthur: Analytics Is Still The Best Way To Win (Baseball Prospectus)
J.J. Cooper: Explaining The New MLB Draft, Pioneer Leagues For 2021 (Baseball America)
Sam Miller: How the Philadelphia Phillies botched their rebuild — and what it tells us about tanking (ESPN.com)
Jay Jaffe: JAWS and the 2021 Hall of Fame Ballot: Barry Zito (FanGraphs)
Emma Baccellieri: Making Sense of Record-High Non-Tendered MLB Players (Sports Illustrated)
Jayson Stark: The non-tender deadline’s ‘Central’ issue (The Athletic)
Rob Mains: Honesty is Hardly Ever Heard (Baseball Prospectus)
Peter Gammons: How Jed Hoyer’s Red Sox roots shaped him (The Athletic)
Mark Simon: The Intrigue of Andrelton Simmons (ACTA Sports)
Neil Paine: Charles Johnson Was Damn Good Behind (And At) The Plate (FiveThirtyEight)
Mike Petriello: Hall of Fame might be inducting too few MLB players (MLB.com)
Jon Rathbun: Fort Plain native Bud Fowler honored by SABR (Times Telegram)
Grant Brisbee: Here are the reclamation projects who could help turn the Giants bullpen around (The Athletic)
David Laurila: A Conversation With 1960s Slugger Jim Gentile (FanGraphs)
Nick Diunte: How One Documentary Forever Bonded The Memories Of Two Recently Deceased Negro Leaguers (Forbes.com)
Ryan Whirty: John Wright’s daughter remembers trailblazer on his birthday (Home Plate Don’t Move)
Roger Cormier: Stand Back, Stand Back: Walk-Off Celebrations in a Time of COVID (Baseball Prospectus)
Sam Gazdziak: A league of their own… in 1905 (RIP Baseball)
Chad Osborne: Christie Brinkley’s 1996 Pinnacle set goes ‘beyond presumed sex appeal’ (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
DJ Weller: Player Collection Spotlight – Ivan Rodriguez (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)

Please note: Some articles may require a separate subscription to view online. SABR does not endorse, and is not responsible or liable for, any content that appears on a third-party website.

This Week in SABR is compiled by Jacob Pomrenke. If you would like us to include an upcoming event, article or any other information in “This Week in SABR,” e-mail jpomrenke@sabr.org.

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