Adam Darowski

“Could’ve happened to anybody.”

These fucking comments every time. They truly believe everybody does this.

It includes overall WAR (as does the WAR column on that page).

Thanks for the heads up. Getting that one fixed.

Mats Hummels contract when

Haven’t done that yet. Three SABR conferences this year made that one tough to pull off. 😅

Robinson Canó 4000 Professional Hits Countdown

Aug 10th: 1️⃣-for-3, 2 R, 2 BB, RBI
Total Professional Career Hits: 3978

Hits Until 4000: 22

The Red Devils win 12-1 to take a 2-0 win. Kinda need them to lose some so Canó gets more PAs. Travel day Monday.

Baseball cards of Sam Jethroe, Ray Dandridge, Sammy T. Hughes, Satchel Paige, and Martín Dihigo

Also came back with a few cards from the Malloy.

Puff pastry, cinnamon and sugar, and an apple slice 😍

Back from the conference and back on my shit. Erin wanted me to try this: www.instagram.com/reel/DEZWDOr...

1961 Post Minnie Miñoso

Early career postcard of Juan Pizarro

Here’s a couple things from minimum bids from random sellers. 4000 hits and 400 wins, of course, represented.

Most doubles among the 4000 Professional Hit Club

849 Bobby Abreu
831 Pete Rose
813 Miguel Cabrera
793 Stan Musial
764 Minnie Miñoso
757 Tony Pérez
750 Ty Cobb
726 Arnold Statz
720 Matías Carrillo
714 Henry Aaron
706 Jesús Sommers
706 Cesár Tovar

Robinson Canó has 846.

Robinson Canó 4000 Professional Hits Countdown

Aug 9th: 3️⃣-for-5, 4️⃣ RBI, 2️⃣ R
Total Professional Career Hits: 3977

Hits Until 4000: 23

The Red Devils opened the first round of the playoffs with a 13-3 win over the Lions. Canó continued his hot hitting with three singles and four driven in.

Yeah, I think it’s 100%. Maybe you could make a case for Lefty Grove or Dizzy Dean.

Simulating Satchel A What-If History of Integrated Major League Baseball in 1934 by JOHN GRAF

This upcoming book from John Graf looks interesting. 🤔

That must be a bug. Will look into it!

Meeting Kenny Lofton was very nice on a day that a friend of mine got to meet Julio Franco and was texting me photos because Julio said “we have to take a photo to send your friend” 🥹

Kenny Lofton didn’t want to talk about Immaculate Grid. He wanted to tell about the Versus Finder. Apparently that’s the thing all the players use at the golf tournaments to get on each other about who hit who and who homered against who. The coolest exchange I’ve ever had with an athlete.

2428 major league hits on this stage right now

For sure. I have to assume he’ll be back in the DR but I’m not sure yet.

4000 Hits

I haven’t made a mini-site for it (yet?) but this is the sheet I’m working from. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Massive Expansion of Play-by-Play and Stats on Pro Football Reference | Sports-Reference.com Massive Expansion of Play-by-Play and Stats on Pro Football Reference

Massive work from our data team on this one. Pro Football play-by-play back to 1978 (previously we had it back to 1994). www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/08...

Let’s play “José Cruz Professional Hits”

🇺🇸 MLB REG: 2251
🇺🇸 MLB POST: 17
🇺🇸 US Minor REG: 545
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico: 914
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico POST: 110
🇺🇸 Senior Professional League: 77
Caribbean Series: 24
Total: 3938

Canó appeared in 19 of those games and collected 24 hits. His .300/.364/.488 was well of his regular season performances of last season and this season. So 26 hits in the playoffs is not outside the realm of possibility.

The season ended with Canó 26 hits shy, but we may not need to worry. If the Mexican League playoffs use the same format as last year (I think they will), there will be FOUR rounds of Best-of-7 series. The Red Devils are favorites, so that could be 16-28 more games. Last year it was 20.

The final game of the season was rained out and will not be made up. Therefore, Canó finished the season with these numbers.

Los Diablos Rojos will kick off the playoffs against los Leones de Yucatan tomorrow.

Canó tied for the league lead in doubles with 32.

Do you mind giving a specific example to check out?

The "Threw a No-Hitter" category in Immaculate Grid will also draw upon the Negro Leaguers included in the list.

Which means… 👀

Negro League No-Hitters Added to Baseball Reference | Sports-Reference.com Negro League No-Hitters Added to Baseball Reference

Known Negro League no-hitters between 1920-1948 have been added to @baseball-reference.com’s no-hitters list. 😍 www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/08...

Time to go be a baseball nerd.

Sign that reads “Welcome to Bourbon City”

Here for SABR’s Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference.