Tag: baseball
Below The Box Score: Ejections-a-plenty! Week of 4/25
The story of this week has to be the ejections. After last week had no ejections, the umps warmed up their tossin’ arms and 6 were ejected this week. The Padres had two of their own rung up this week, which is the weekly high for a team (unsurprisingly). The Padres helped even the score…
Introducing the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings!
In an effort to make the success of an organization more clear, we have introduced the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings. This allows you to play around with the sliders to appropriately weight the value of each league, from MLB to the Rookie League, to see what organization tops your list. Methodology: For the default rankings,…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Review of Attendance, Weather, Pace, and Ejections – Week of 4/18
April is a great time for baseball, if you like rain delays and wild temperature swings. This week’s low temperature demonstrates how volatile the springtime is. In Minnesota, Wednesday’s game was a comfortable 68 degrees for an 8 PM start. The very next day, at 1 PM, the temperatures had dropped down to a chilly…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Look at the Lesser Watched Statistics in Baseball
Editor note: Below the Box Score is a new weekly recurring segment that will discuss the lesser analyzed portions of the box score: namely attendance, time of game, weather, and ejections. We hope you enjoy. Opening Day is always an exciting one, with fans ready for Summer, but often times, the hype of Opening Day…
Top Ten Minor League Baseball Logos – Ranked!
Editor note: Today’s article is a contribution from AMSTS friend and reader, Tyler Stern. It looks as if another baseball season is upon us. So that means we get to rank the minor league logos coming into the 2016 season! So sit back, relax and enjoy as we rank logo’s of teams you’ve probably…
The Only Two New Professional Baseball Stadiums for the 2016 Season
The construction boom of the 1990s and 2000s has come to a complete halt. Back then, with access to easy funding and a strong economy led to 22 of the 30 MLB stadiums being built in the last 25 years. At the boom’s peak, from 1993-2003, 86 Minor League Baseball stadiums were built at a total cost…
Wednesday Web Roundup for January 27, 2016
Trying something a little different this week with some of the things I’ve found from around the web in the last week that may be of interest to you. The theme this week is clearly baseball, as both articles come from varying Orioles-related influences, the first is a data driven article by Derek Arnold…
Which MLB Teams Will Fly the Most in 2016?
We’re a mere 42 days from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training, so why not take a look ahead at the MLB season? The longest of the professional sporting seasons of the four major sports leagues of the US, the MLB schedule requires significant amounts of travel for every team. In fact, 28 of…
When every baseball team will run out of uniform numbers
Last week, the Red Sox announced that they would be retiring Wade Boggs’ number 26. This will be the 9th retired number in the Red Sox organization (10 if you include the league-wide retirement of Jackie Robinson’s #42), and the 5th retirement since 2000. With that, two questions are begged: 1) Are MLB teams retiring numbers…