by Phil Smith | Apr 18, 2024 | League Updates
Week four! Okay! Let’s get started. Good news: the Pears batted over .300, with an ops about .800. And plenty of at-bats! Even better: the pitchers (just Mike and Joe, but that’s enough for one day) combined for 7.1 innings and only 2 runs. A good day! But...
by Phil Smith | Apr 14, 2024 | League Updates
The Perils of SSS (Small Sample Size) In real life baseball, we are familiar with the tendency to generalize from too little data. We know that 15 games in April is not a whole season. And yet, every year, fans get overexcited (or overly depressed) about early...
by Phil Smith | Aug 25, 2023 | League Updates
James 1:8 “… he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (KJV) This morning I opened MLB scores, eager to check on outcomes relevant to the Pears progress and the Mariners’ push for a playoff spot. No Ms game today, so I looked for...
by Phil Smith | Jul 19, 2023 | League Updates
Alert EFL fans will notice an important, though disguised, move in the standings today. Angelic movements threaten the league leaders. Earlier this week, I included the Seraphim in the “bubbling middle” group of teams. No more! In one night...
by Phil Smith | Jul 18, 2023 | League Updates
Last night the Yankees finally did the right thing. They returned young Oswald Peraza to their line-up. Naturally, they were rewarded by a terrific performance: Peraza singled in his only official at-bat, and he walked in four other appearances at the...
