Uncategorized – The Whirled Baseball League https://wbl.dmlco.com/wp Baseball The Way It Never Was Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:12:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 178681366 TWIWBL 97.1: Early Spring Training https://wbl.dmlco.com/wp/2026/07/17/twiwbl-97-1-early-spring-training/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:58:54 +0000 https://wbl.dmlco.com/wp/?p=9093 We’ll have a team by team season preview as Spring Training runs down, but here are some newsworthy tidbits from the early days.

#Homestead Grays

The Grays have lost their staff ace–or what has passed for a staff ace–as Francisco Liriano suffered a torn labrum, and will miss 5-6 months, putting him on the shelf for effectively the whole season.

#Memphis Red Sox

The Red Sox execute the very first waiver claim in WBL history (this is part of what Claude’s involvement enables), grabbing veteran P Paul Derringer from Indianapolis.

]]> 9093 Bombs Away! https://wbl.dmlco.com/wp/2021/06/12/bombs-away/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:02:04 +0000 https://wbl.dmlco.com/wp/?p=1168 Thanks to the efforts of our underpaid research department, we now have a place for a variety of statistics unavailable through OOTP’s usual reports, including all of the 500+ ft. homeruns hit in the WBL. There have been 8 such blasts so far this season, with one batter doing it twice.

Not sure what is more surprising: Casey Stengel‘s presence or Eugenio Suarez‘. Certainly Curt Blefary being on there twice is a bit of an eye-opener.

525 ft. Albert Pujols (KCM)
515 ft. Carlos Correa (HOU)
514 ft. Casey Stengel (HOU)
504 ft. Curt Blefary (BAL); Eugenio Suarez (NYG)
502 ft. Wally Moon (SFS)
501 ft. Curt Blefary (BAL)

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