All About Baseball with Byron Copley

All About Baseball with Byron Copley


Latest Episodes

Big Little-League Mistakes
October 16, 2025

On October 10, 2025, the Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series (ALDS), in part because the Tigers committed two critical "little-league" mista

Dick Bartell Held on to the Baseball
October 09, 2025

In Game 7 of the 1940 World Series, in the seventh inning with the Detroit Tigers clinging onto a tenuous 1-0 lead, Tiger shortstop Dick Bartell inexplicably held the baseball in his right hand as Red

The 97-Win Threshold is not as Easy as it Appears
October 02, 2025

Winning 97 games in an MLB season "only" requires any team to win three of every five games. This podcast, influenced by a similar observation that I saw online, asked the question "is it really that

Replay: The Honorable Sacrifice of Jack T. Jamison
September 29, 2025

Occasionally, I will replay posts that I think bear a second listen (or a first if it was missed). Jack T. Jamison (not his real name) is one of 4,486 Major League Baseball players who never got

Data is too Dated to Remember
September 22, 2025

The deluge of data that is delivered to viewers and spectators during a given MLB game, whether in person, on television, or even in a radio broadcast, renders the actual events on the field as specim

A Collapse of Epic Proportions (Reprise)
September 17, 2025

What a difference a week makes. On September 8, the Tigers were 9.5 games ahead of Kansas City. Now, the 2025 Detroit Tigers, as of this day, are in the EXACT same position as the 1964 Philadelphia Ph

Yankees’ Tribute to Charlie Kirk
September 12, 2025

The New York Yankees offered a moment of silence on September 10, 2025, prior to its game against the Detroit Tigers, to recognize the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which had occurred earlier that da

A Collapse of Epic Proportions
September 08, 2025

Prior to the game of Friday, September 5, 2025, the Detroit Tigers held a 9.5 game lead over the second-place Kansas City Royals in the American League Central. Only a total collapse that would have t

The Balkanization of Major League Baseball
September 01, 2025

Rob Manfred is at it again. He wants to expand MLB to 32 teams and organize them in divisions based solely on geographic proximity and dissolve the American and National leagues. His rationale is thin

What is the Catcher’s Balk? Answer: It Doesn’t Exist
August 25, 2025

A listener-request inspired me to dig into the mystery of the so-called "catcher's balk," a term commonly used, but found nowhere in the rule book. Naturally, my investigation lead me into a discussio