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Eric Chalek
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I turn Negro Leagues, NPB, KBO, etc data into major league equivalencies (MLEs) to answer baseball What Ifs. Read/download at horsehidedragnet.Wordpress.com. And I love cats. And Mexican food.
I had to double check the Tracker to be sure it wasn’t Shaughnessey doing his click-bait best/worst. It wasn’t, and we can all rest easier.
January 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Kinda amazing how Beltran has gained steam as more ballots have revealed. At first he didn’t seem to get a lot of bumps, but it’s turned into a full stampede. Fingers crossed for him at 6:00 PM.
January 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Let’s see…

Edmonds: Yes
Bernie: Maybe
Nathan: Not close
Pap: No
Damon: No
Berkman: Prolly
T Hudson: Yes
Oswalt: Prolly
Salmon: Not close
John and Julio: Neither is close
Mattingly: Not close
L Gonzalez: Prolly
Nomar: No

Yankee fans can now commence screes re [name] is Yes but Don M isn’t close???
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So they r Kosher? Or at least not mystery meat?
January 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Almost as bad as the breakup of the Jefferson Starship.
January 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
As Dirty Harry put it, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
January 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is me in Mexican restaurants. Started taking Spanish 2.5 years ago, and I know deep inside that every time I do this, I’ve misconjugated something, and I’ve told the staffer that I’d like to order the chef’s hat on a plate of horse hairs with a side of cat’s blood salsa.
January 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I have one word for this bit of Sasaki news, and it’s hyphenated: Woooooooo-Hoooooo!
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Couple that might make 3K or more:
G Scales (lotsa PRWL)
Dihigo
Moises Camacho
Espino (2383 summer H on Ref+1824 LMP)
J Sommers (1614 on Ref+1073 LMP)
Teolindo Acosta (2700 MiL H)
Jethroe
Matias Carillo
Willie Wells
Dandridge
Jack Pierce?
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What! No estados de Mexico y Panama?
January 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I hear “superutility player,” and I think Tony Phillips and Ben Zonrist were magical beasts who once roamed the Earth giving the platoon advantage to their team every night of the year.
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Sasaki is in the Asian MLE spreadsheet on my site, horsehidedragnet.wordpress.com. I think Kim is too
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January 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That’s Hall of Famer, Sherry Robertson. Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer, Sherry Robertson.
January 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Love this!!!
January 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
El Gamo Dominicano=The Dominican Fallow Deer.

[googles around a few minutes]

B/c, of course, the fallow deer is the common Eurasian deer species, as we all know…. ;)
December 30, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I prefer Wright to Donaldson as a Hall case. Weight is juuuust above my line, and Donaldson is below.
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Hey, Adam, in your researches did u ever come across the meaning of Tetelo? I popped it into Google translate and got…Tetelo.

Vargas was known as Deerfoot too, I think, and the Spanish for that would be (roughly) Pie del Venado.
December 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I think I need the 7-day trial. @adarowski.bsky.social do they have walks for Tételo?
December 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I didn’t take Spanish in school and am studying now at 50. When I learned the pronunciation, I was hooked: Coke-ah-YEEN-ah. It just rolls off the tongue beautifully. Hoping to get a Cuban card of him: Caramelo Deportiva, Acebo, Colecciónes Victoria, Almanaque Deportivo, whichever set he is in.
December 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Also…
CL: 1470 G CF; 458 corner OF
DM: 1041 CF; 850 corner OF (also 209 1B; 85 C and not a good C)
December 28, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Amazing to remember that Randolph and Armas were PIT products. They sure coulda used them when they sagged into irrelevance after 1979.
December 27, 2024 at 2:28 PM
In fairness to Cone (full disclosure: one of my faves), all claims were resolved out of court or dropped or amended to remove sex stuff. Doesn’t necessarily mean the claims were untrue b/c legal systems & rich white guys…but it needs saying.

Was Cone’s 1 & done affected by this?
December 27, 2024 at 1:49 AM