The Blog of Regular Joes World Season 27 - Issue #5 May 22, 2021 Well, this is the last installment of the players I ranked as the top 25 in Regular Joe’s world. I hope it’s been informative and enjoyable. As I mentioned before the 1 st installment, I created a spreadsheet that works somewhat similar to the HBD Draft’s Formula Builder, (which I never use by the way). This spreadsheet is giving various “weighting scales” to assorted rating categories; comparing every player’s current rating in the categories, and then combining them all to arrive at a final weighted grade. For example…I perceive control in a pitcher to be very important. I apply a certain weight to that rating grade, etc. It’s complicated to explain any further in an essay like this without making everyone bleary eyed. I only mention it, because I want to emphasize that this is my grading based on what I am shown by WIS. It’s not written in ston...
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The Blog of Regular Joes World Season 27 - Issue #4 Let’s take a brief respite from my list of 25 Best Players. The Story of My Idolization of Baseball Players and Where that Idolization Stands Today I’m in my mid-sixties. I probably have a different perspective than some of you who are a generation or two younger than me. When I was a young, growing up in the late 50’s and into the 60’s and 70’s, we tended to idolize major league baseball players and our fathers did as well; perhaps even more so than we did. Baseball was truly “The American Game” in those days. I grew up in New England and when young, I was a die-hard Red Sox fan. My dad grew up in Pittsburgh and was a die-hard Pirates fan…and he knew the game and was a great teacher. He taught me, and I taught my brother who was eight years younger than I. One of my fondest memories is of my dad and my grandfather, (his father), taking me to “Meet the Pirates Day” a...