All About Baseball with Byron Copley

What is up with Javier Baez? I looked at the numbers in detail to find out HOW Javier Baez has improved so dramatically in 2025 compared to 2024, because they can’t lie. Many of Baez’s stats are drastically different in 2025 compared to 2024. However, many others are surprisingly the same, or worse, in 2025…

Not much more to say about the content of this podcast, except for that it references, obviously, the movies American Grafitti, Casablanca, and Animal House. More to the point, it’s somewhat ironic to me that MLB Commissioner Manfred waited until Rose died before removing him from the “permanently ineligible” list. This entire situation reeks of…

“The Midnight Library of Baseball,” by Ben Orlando, is the podcast that inspired me to create “All About Baseball,” and my podcast is loosely modeled after Orlando’s. I want to share Orlando’s podcast with you because it is worth listening to. I just finished his three-part series on the 1919 World Series, and if you…

In a recent game between the Reds and the Braves, where Braves’ first basemen Matt Olsen was awarded an inside-the-park home run, I think that the umpires missed the opportunity to apply Rule 5:12 (b) (3). In my opinion, Olsen should have been awarded two bases and no runs allowed, in the spirit of the…

The numbers seem to indicate that the players who regularly use the Torpedo Bat are not, in most cases, hitting the target in regards to improved offense when compared to March/April 2024. Only a few of the 19 MLB players reviewed in this podcast (and by all accounts, who are the only players who use…

The sounds of baseball that emanated from the high school behind my back yard on a warm Sunday prompted me to walk over there and investigate. What I discovered was a softball team of young women at practice who obviously love the game and a coach who instills confidence and courage in his players. byroncopley@gmail.com…