Officially relaunching today, new and improved after a decade-plus hiatus: The Simple WAR Calculator is back!

Reintroducing the Simple WAR Calculator
Unpacking the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Results
Dissenting Into Madness
When Auld Acquaintance Is Forgot
My 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Mock Ballot

What is the moral logic behind believing Trevor Bauer should not play Major League Baseball again, but Andruw Jones deserves the game's highest honor?

Today at The Lewsletter, my thoughts on the what the Cooperstown "character clause" ought to mean.

Keeping up with the Bauers
Billy Wagner and the Myth of the Failed Starter

"Spahn and Sain and a bullpen game" has become the norm for playoff rotations. But the data suggests that teams over-working and -exposing their relief aces is backfiring.

I wrote about how the 2024 postseason could nudge teams away from pursuing stuff and strikeouts.

Is This How the Strikeout Era Ends?

There's at once so much to say and nothing to be said, so I tried to put some of my inarticulable bewilderment into words.

There Is No Back to Normal