The Player Who Never Played

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The Player Who Never Played

The Player Who Never Played

by | Nov 23, 2022 | Life=Baseball

There is a major league baseball player who played in 105 games and never batted. He never played in the field. This is a player in the Baseball Almanac who never swung a bat or caught a ball yet he played in 105 Major League baseball games. Herb Washington was a...
Time Changes Things

Time Changes Things

by | Oct 17, 2022 | Life=Baseball

There are two elements of every contract. Those elements are the total amount of money, and the total amount of time. Taken together, those elements combined to reveal a contract that is either very lucrative or not. For example, a $15 million contract may seem out of...
A Totally Swing Badder Wild Card Primer

A Totally Swing Badder Wild Card Primer

by | Oct 7, 2022 | Analysis, Life=Baseball

Welcome to October and Playoff Baseball! Going into the postseason, it would be very easy to simply look at the teams that currently have momentum, maturity, and managerial prowess to get them through the postseason. Here at Swing Badder we look at the fourth M. The...
How do You Light $88,000,000 on Fire?

How do You Light $88,000,000 on Fire?

by | Oct 4, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Pay three pitchers to get your team to the playoffs and the World Series and let them come in at the end of the season for a three game series against your divisional rival needing to only win one game and then watch as all three pitchers collapse and hand said...
Ocular Enhancers

Ocular Enhancers

by | Oct 3, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Endy Chavez has been robbed of his place in history. He should have been the start of a rally for the Mets in game 7 of the 2006 NLCS to beat the Cardinals and move on. With Jim Edmonds on first and Scott Rolen at the plate, Chavez who had somehow managed to hit .306...