Cavan Biggio has made some big strides over the past few years.
In 2017, we had him #34 on our prospect list. He had a pretty good OBP (as well as a lot of strikeouts). He seems to be just taking.
February 19, 2021
Fernando Tatis Jr. has agreed to the longest contract in baseball history, and one of the most lucrative and yet looking at the jaw-dropping ZiPS projection for his career, his 14-year, $340 million deal might be underselling him. At the very least, Tatis’ contract and his production to date cast him as a generational talent, and his forecast suggests he’ll wind up ranking among history’s great shortstops. While it’s hard to believe that a player with only two partial years in the majors has a leg up on a berth in the Hall of Fame, the statistical history of players who’ve done what he’s done at such a young age suggests that it’s true: Tatis is already soaring towards Cooperstown.
The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated.
The surge via which the Baseball Writers Association of America elected a record 22 Hall of Fame candidates over a seven-year span is over, as the voters pitched a shutout on Tuesday, their second in the past decade, fourth since the return to annual balloting in 1966, and ninth since the Hall’s inception in 1936. Collectively the 401 voters who participated showed enough ambivalence towards the top four returning candidates Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Omar Vizquel, all of whom have non-performance-related marks against them that were increasingly aired during the cycle to keep them on the outside looking in,
Ryne Sandberg vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 27, 2021, 6:08am CST +
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According to baseball-reference.com, these were the 8 American League pitchers with the most Wins Above Replacement from 1984 through 1993:
1. Roger Clemens, 65.1
8. Mark Gubicza, 30.0
Ryne Sandberg faced every one of them during those 10 years, as he played in the All-Star Game each season. Those were all the All-Star appearances of his 16-year, Hall of Fame career.
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During the regular season, Sandberg batted .285/.344/.795. He slammed 282 home runs, hitting at least 26 in 5 seasons, with a high of 40. He drove in 1,061 runs, reaching 100 on the nose twice.
In 1997, his final season, he played 13 games against American League teams, in which he went 15 for 48, .313, with 5 doubles, plus 3 walks, and had 9 RBI.