About the Blog
This website is a way for me to express the love that I have for the game of baseball. Like many of us who watch and enjoy baseball, my love for the game began when I was young and was instilled in me by my dad. My own playing career ended when I graduated from high school, and after that I took a three year hiatus from rabidly following the game but I never lost my love for baseball. This blog will be a way for me to convey the things that I find most compelling about the sport we all spend too much time thinking about. It will cover some of my favorite players, games, stadiums, stats, and legends that have come to characterize the game. I have no formal baseball writing experience, I do—however—have a Stathead subscription and enough of an understanding of sabermetrics and advanced analytics to be dangerous. By dangerous, I mean unintentionally misleading. My goals with this blog are twofold, and they are goals that I have for myself and whoever reads this. First, I hope we all learn something, whether that be about a player you’ve never heard of, or about how to better analyze statistics and data, I hope we can all take something from this exercise. Second, this is supposed to be fun. I’m doing this to have more fun with my favorite sport. If you have fun too, that’s awesome. I don’t really mind if you have fun because you think this is dumb, or if you have fun because you think it’s cool. Laugh with me, or at me. But let’s laugh and learn about baseball together.
You might also be wondering why this blog is called “A Blog About Baseball” and the reason behind that is very simple. This is literally a blog about baseball, I can’t believe you even asked that question. My favorite thing to do is to sit down and watch baseball until I fall asleep. As soon as I get home from work (and even at work on occasion) MLB TV is on. I try to watch as many games a day as I can and I do my best to watch as many teams as I can. When I get tired of watching baseball, I go to FanGraphs and read about baseball. When I can’t read more about baseball, it’s off to BaseballReference for some Immaculate Grid and perusing my favorite player pages, which you’ll soon learn more about. This blog is going to be about all of the things I learn, stories I hear, and hopefully someday the players that I talk to. Here goes nothing!
Thank you again for reading this website, especially to those in my life who don’t really care about the sport. It means a lot that you care enough about me to visit this anyway!
About Me
I am a 26 year old government affairs professional living in Washington, DC. I grew up in Connecticut where my dad introduced me to the game of baseball through his own love for the game and a local minor league affiliate of the Yankees, the Norwich Navigators. From that point on I was obsessed. Apologies to my dad’s rotator cuff for the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of pitches I made him through me in our yard. My dad is a Yankees fan, unsurprising given his roots in New Jersey and because of him, I began my baseball life as a Yankees fan. However, my friends at school pulled me into Red Sox fandom in 2005 and I stayed a dyed-in-the-wool Sox fan until 2019. My favorite players growing up were Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia and when injuries began to derail the career of the latter, I started to develop an affinity for the man who was supposed to be his replacement—Mookie Betts. It was John Henry’s decision to trade Mookie that dissolved my Red Sox fandom. At that point, I swore off team affiliation in favor of following only my favorite players. This decision was fueled by my finding of the Effectively Wild podcast, which transformed my baseball nerdiness to a near-obsessive level. My dad was the one who got me interested in the history of statistics and turned me into something of an encyclopedia of traditional baseball statistics, but it was Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Sam Miller (along with their rotating cast of guests) who introduced me to advanced metrics. Another reason for this shift in focus was the arrival of young superstars like Ronald Acuna Jr., Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and my favorite player, Shohei Ohtani. Other than baseball, both my dad and I are enormous UConn basketball fans and are both alumni of the Nutmeg State’s Flagship University. I also love reading, movies, YouTube deep-dives, spending time with my girlfriend, and the gym. If you’re interested in following me on social media, you can find me on Instagram here, and I will apologize in advance for the sheer amount of Shohei content that my Instagram story has.