+ Added the results for the 2025 MLB Rule 5 Draft. 13 picks this year. TBC has all MLB Rule 5 drafts since 1997. I'll be adding Minor League Rule 5 results for 1998-present soon.

+ Things are slowing down as we approach the holidays. Thanks to "ZL" for signing up to TBC PREMIUM and to "SH" for his renewal.

+ Added a list that includes an updated view of Major Leaguers by Country of birth. All published Lists are here. Adding a new one every 2-3 days.

> Life has thrown me some curveballs this past week. It has felt like being up by 2 in the bottom of the ninth with the bases juiced and Aaron Judge at the plate. Stress. Tension. Anxiety. Have had to take it pitch by pitch for the last 7 days. The count could be 1-2 now and there might be light at the end of the tunnel. I have that wicked slider in my arsenal and lets hope that Judge chases.

Dynamic listing of all players grouped by Country of Birth. The list is based on players on the MLB Active roster or, during season, on an MLB Injured List.

+ 2025 MLB Playoffs section completed. All games added. Boxscores too. Meh, do you really care about the TBC MLB Playoff section??

+ Modified the TBC PREMIUM signup process. The bane of my existence. Now, if you Register for an account, you will be immediately redirected to cart/payment section. If you have trouble please Contact me but I understand that you may prefer to throw your hands up in the air, shake them 3 times and then curse me out. Fair.

+ 9 Baseball Lists. Added Most Homers, active Minor Leaguers, no MLB Experience.

+ Despite the difficulties in paying TBC, here are some people who broke through the obstacles:

Thanks to "SO" for purchasing Contracts and Salaries ... Thanks to "BD" for purchasing the Service Time history file ... "GD" for their TBC PREMIUM Renewal ... Also to "ZM" for a donation to modify his player profile.

> Life got in the way this week. Drove 4 hours both ways through terrible roads during a winter storm to Albany to fetch the kid for winter break. More like 8 hours going south as I meandered through Targets and GameStops and snowy curvy roads through the Adirondacks. While navigating the Crossgates Mall looking for a mysteriously located GameStop (Never found it), I got some bad family news and have been navigating those snowy curvy roads the last 48 hours.

Here's to hoping the weather clears soon.

This is a dynamic listing of current Minor Leaguers (as of most recent minor season) with the most home runs and no MLB experience.

Once a hitter below has a plate appearance in the Majors, he will no longer appear on this list.
Displayed age is as of current date.

+ Added Service Time values to all players appearing in at least one game in 2025. Service time tracks the number of years.days that a player was on an MLB roster for their career and is used for Free Agency and Arbitration eligibility (among other things). I'll be adding values for those who missed the 2025 season due to injury. Their service time should be increased by a year as well.

Service Time is available in the attributes section of player pages. The year in () indicates the season. If the year value is 2024, then the player's listed value is from the end of 2024. Values available since 2015.

The top 10 Service Time for players who played in 2025 are:

1. Justin Verlander 20.002
2. Clayton Kershaw 17.105
3. Max Scherzer 17.079
4. Charlie Morton 17.010
5. Andrew McCutchen 16.123
6. David Robertson 15.169
7. Giancarlo Stanton 15.118
8. Carlos Santana 15.115
9. Jason Heyward 15.090
10. Kenley Jansen 15.073

+ Thanks to "WP" for purchasing some earlier D1 College Statistics from the TBC Data Store … Thanks to a former Major Leaguer for signing up to ! Always a thrill to see a familiar name on the signup log! You're not the first Major Leaguer and hopefully you won't be the last!

+ There are 8 lists now after this one was added this morning.

> I drove to Ottawa yesterday. I did not work. We met friends for brunch. We went to a sports card trading show. By we, I mean I. Me. My wife roamed the sportsplex looking for an Internet signal. I spent 30 minutes at the show with 29 of those minutes hunting for baseball cards. There were boxes and boxes of dollar cards for hockey. Organized by last name. By team. By set. It was great if you cared about hockey. I do not care about hockey. At one point, I was a big Montreal Canadiens fan. I played growing up. Left defence. I rushed a lot. I had Gretzky-like vision. I was also a soft defender, did not clear the slot well and was a relatively poor skater. I do not like hockey culture in Canada. Maybe I will write about this some day.

So yeah, 1% of the cards were split between basebal, football and basketball. I found only 1 seller with a dollar box but it was junk. Maybe a Riley Greene chrome rookie...Maybe the Kodai Senga parallel. Nothing else. I aborted and stomped back to the entrance, found my wife patiently waiting for me and we left. I complained about the show. Vowing never to return. Cursing hockey. "Its winter", she says. I made a sound somewhere between a British Pirate and a drunk mule.

We shopped for the next 3 hours in a minor snowstorm. I jumped out of a moving car to check the GameStop and bought 4 Topps Update packs before we hit 75% of Canadian Box stores and headed to our friends house for supper.

It was the first true day off I had had in months and I didn't like that one bit.

List of schools with the most First Round Draft picks over the last 5 MLB Drafts.

The list includes any school with at least 2 players selected. The distinction between a signed and unsigned player is not relevant for this list. All players are included.

+ 2025 Boxscore data has been refreshed on the site. Game notes were added. Play-by-play was added. Daily Standings were updated. The project is not fully complete yet. More small updates to come!

+ Added all scans for the 1970 Topps baseball card set. 720 cards. There are 24,687 card scans currently on the site. Check out the Baseball Cards section.

+ Thanks to "AD" and "SO" for new TBC PREMIUM subscriptions. Thanks to "DF" for renewing TBC PREMIUM for another year! Yay!! Finally, a thanks to "SO" for purchasing attendance history from the Data Store. Since he's a new subscriber, he got a 25% discount.

+ Added a country flag to player pages next to their place of birth.

> I don't know why but data entry is a source of fuel for me. Maybe it has numbing properties. Maybe its a distraction. Maybe its getting lost in long YouTube videos or podcasts. Lucky for me since that's a large% of this job!

> I decided to shovel my own driveway this year after years of paying a snow-removal company. The result? Winter has arrived early in Montreal. I am about to go outside and shovel snow for the 2nd time today. I do love it. I do enjoy being outside and listening to Baseball America podcasts while I shovel. Relying on someone else required some coordination and rapid-fire responses to the city plow blocking the driveway and the subsequent arrival of our snow-removal company. In that small window, we (me) had to go run outside and brush off the cars and then move them to the road. I have done it 10x so far and its 2 weeks from winter. So far, don't regret it but I guess we'll see when the first real blizzard hits.