The next piece done by my co-author at our site looks at MVPs and has a little Ranger focus since a few Rangers have won the MVP. Sadly Juan Gone's 1996 win was one of the worst selections in recent history.

All in all the BBWAA seems to get MVPs correct right around 50% of the time (according to bWAR).

Using defensive WAR components I looked at the accuracy of the BBWAA at awarding every NL Gold Glove in an overall and position-by-position manner.

Summary: 50% of all NL GGs are way off base and second base and outfield are the least accurate positions.

I don't post a whole lot here (more of lurker/tied down with work) but I feel fairly comfortable here as part of the community. I wanted to link a site that both myself and a good friend of mine started that goes in to basic baseball discussions, hall of fame stuff, and what we call preposterous facts. We are calling the site Deadballers, and we use High Pockets Kelly and Ducky Medwick as alter egos.

Hall of Fame pieces are typically just recaps of careers and where they stand in history as we weren't alive for a vast majority of them.

Anyways, if anyone wants to give the site a read and offer some feedback or writing suggestions it would be much appreciated. Currently there are pieces up on Dale Murphy, Bert Blyleven, Michael Young, and a few brief facts of the day.

Thanks, and Go Rangers!

Desert Ranger/High Pockets

Good article overall, with my favorite being:

""I'm not stupid," Washington said. "Those guys over there, they're the defending champs. They have 40 [expletive] pennants. But what I try to tell our guys is that it doesn't matter who is better. All we have to do is be better on that day. The best team doesn't always win. The team that is better on that day is the one that wins. Be that team.""

I think I would love to play for Ron Washington.