+ Added 2026 Spring Training statistics to the site. Includes standings (who cares) and stats for all teams in the prickly Cactus League and the sour Grapefruit League. I don't like Cacti nor do I like Grapefruits. But I do like Spring Training. Spring Stats are available since 2006. You can buy them if you want.

+ Also added 2026 coaching staffs for the Complex Leagues. Arizona Complex League (ACL) and the Florida Complex League (FCL).

> And just like that, in the blink of an eye, the College Softball season is over. From the March trip to Florida to a 4th place Conference finish to a Conference Championship and then to an East Regional Pod Championship to the Super Regionals. It happened so fast. It was a blur. The juggernaut team who grew so much over the year hit a wall on their way to Nationals. They lost 2 games in extra innings in the best of 3. They clawed and fought for every run and got out of numerous jams. Coaches made a dozen moves each game to maximize winning potential. They tried everything. But in the end, they ran into another juggernaut who refused to lose and the season is over. And so is the kid's college career. It was a great run. 4 years at 2 colleges. 4 conference tournament finals, 3 conference championships, 2 trips to JUCO Nationals and a Regionals and Super Regionals in the NCAA. It wasn't perfect but it was full. It was memorable. And now she starts the transition from college athlete to an open horizon. Its the end of an era for all of us.

There will be some grieving tomorrow when I pick her up. I'll be okay though. I'll just find a Dick's and buy some Bowmans. It will be good.

+ For TBC PREMIUM subscribers ($24/year)... You can now highlight your players on the Daily Newspaper.

Just click the "Highlight my Players" checkbox at the top of the page and voila! All references to your tracked* players will be highlighted in yellow on the page. Now you can scour boxscores with a little bit of help.

*You can track players to see their daily pro stats using the TBC Player Tracker. The Tracker is included with your TBC PREMIUM subscription.

> I spent the last 5 days in the Northeast. The kid is graduating. I was expecting to bring her home. Her college softball career suspected to be over. I brought 5 t-shirts and a collared shirt. 4 pairs of sweatpants and my dockers. A pair of hokas and some stylish brown shoes.

After winning the Conference Championship in dramatic fashion, they qualified for the NCAA D2 East Regional as the 5-seed, in a pool with the 1-seed. Regionals are typically Thursday-Saturday. Graduation was Sunday. WAS is the keyword. New England got rained on hard on Thursday, pushing the tournament to Friday-Sunday. In Iffy weather on Friday, the girls pulled off a 7-1 win against the 4-seed and in beautiful weather on Saturday, took down the 8-seed, also 7-1. They would go directly to the finals. Do not pass graduation. Do not collect a diploma. At least not yet.

The girls agreed before the tournament to miss graduation if necessary. Believe it or not (I couldn't) a past Senior class had decided to forego the regional final to attend their graduation ceremony. A pact was needed to avoid a repeat.

In the Regionals, you get 2 lives if you go direct to the final. We used 1 of them up with a 9-4 loss in the first game on another beautiful day. It was a postage stamp strike zone and our pitchers could not adjust. Many hits. Many runs. Much concern. But then a normal strike zone. The bats came alive. 9-0 win and the school's first ever softball Super Regionals berth and a real chance at the College World Series.

And so Monday was graduation day for the 8 softball seniors. The school did a fantastic job honoring them. The small auditorium was packed with friends and family. The stage was full of school dignitaries. It was a real ceremony. It felt real. And it was mercifully short. It was perhaps more memorable than the mass graduation the prior day.

The plan was to pack the car and bring the kid north. And although we did pack the car with non-essentials, the kid had to stay just a bit longer.

These are the top 50 "active" Major Leaguers with the most career Wins. The list is dynamic and is updated daily during the season. A player is considered active if he has Major League experience in last 2 years and is not labelled as retired.

I'm not on turf. I'm on a corked floor. My chair doesn't have a cup holder and it doesn't fold. I'm in a swivel chair. I'm working. I'm watching my iPad. I'm watching FloSports.

On Thursday, I watched them knock off the top seed. Holding on for a 1-run win after a 6-run lead slowly evaporated. Mayhem ensued along with a trip to the Winner's bracket.
On Friday, I watched them knock off the 2nd seed. Another 1-run game. Mayhem ensued along with a direct route to the finals with 2 lives remaining.
On Saturday, it rained.
On Sunday, I watched them fall behind 4-0 without even a spark of hope. With 1 out in the 7th, the rally started. I watched them earn a walk. A single. Another single. A walk. A run. And then I watched a 2-run single to make it 4-3. No chance. With 2nd and 3rd, the 2nd hitter struck out, bring up a 1st team All-Conference hitter. A masher. A hitter's hitter. With first base open, they did not walk her. They let her hit. I shook my head. An all-rookie freshman on deck. On a 1-2 pitch after 2 swings on wicked changeups, the 3rd hitter hit a no doubter, 3-run homer over the right field fence. The kind of homer that had the on-deck freshman jumping for joy in the frame before the 3rd hitter could even start running. Mayhem ensued unlike I have ever seen. Players sprinted out of the dugout. They jumpred up and down. Everyone hugged everyone. 25 players hugging 24 others. 300 hugs. Coaches ran in from their bases. I watched my daughter jumping for joy. The night before she told me "I want to go to Regionals so bad" And now, she was.

Many softball parents watch their children play at local parks and they enjoy it. Maybe they sneak a drink. Make friends with other parents. Chat and cheer and then go home. And that's great. My softball experience is different. In addition to local and city parks. I've been to the provincial championships in many Montreal area towns. The Eastern Canadian Championships in Cobourg,Ontario. The Canadian Nationals against the best players in the country. Montreal. Fredericton. Beautiful Victoria. Calgary. Saskatoon. I have been to the Canada Cup in Surrey,BC. I attended the Canada Games in Niagara Falls where I witnessed a silver medal, my daughter scoring the 1st run and driving in the 6th of a 6-5 win against powerhouse Ontario in the silver medal game. (We eventually lost to University of Washington pitcher Morgan Reimer in the final).

I have been all over Northern New York to watch her Junior College career. JUCO Nationals in Syracuse where they finished 3rd. I did NOT travel to Tennessee the following year when they earned a 2nd JUCO World Series trip.
I have been to the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament in Pleasantville, New York where my daughter lost in the finals. No regionals.

I skipped the Conference Tournament this year since it was already scratched off my bucket list. But I will be going to the NCAA East Regional in New Hampshire in 2 days.

I have watched my daughter play in Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. And of course, also at the local park in my local town behind the local grocery store.

This will be my last hurrah as a Softball parent for my undersized Senior. My little 65-hit, 60-run daughter with sneaky power. I will soon go back to just being a parent.... but ... that's ONLY if they don't win Regionals. Because if they win...(Don't tell my wife I said this) I have never been to a SUPER REGIONAL. And if they win that? (And for sure don't tell my wife I said THIS) I have never been to the NCAA D2 Women's College World Series.

+ If you don't scan the TBC Daily Newspaper, you're missing out. Its a scoreboard summary of the past day in baseball, complete with standings, boxscores, leaderboards, transactions and much more! Hundreds of people visit the Newspaper daily, including me.

Because of that, I'd like to continue to enhance this page for you all. Y'all. This morning's newspaper now has Daily Saves to go along with Daily Homers, Steals and Wins. This is a quick summary of players who homered, stole or was credited with a win. It lists the # for the day, their season total and their career total. The list is sorted by career total. So now you can add saves. Someone made this suggestion by email. I love suggestions. They make life easier for me. I don't have to think. I just do. I can't get inspired on cue. My brain makes that decision for me. A suggestion means I don't have to wait for the brain to be inspired. Annnnywwwwaaayyyysss.

+ The TBC Player Tracker email is an add-on to your TBC PREMIUM Subscription. The Tracker lets you track up to 200 mlb/milb players and their stats from the prior day. Its "pull" though. You login and get the stats. The email is a "push". I mean, technically, you have to go to your email but your Aunt Martha usually emails you anyways so you'll be in there each morning to read those long emails.

The price of the email has dropped from $50 to $25. The high price had to do with the amount of technical issues that arose from emails not getting sent or what-have-you. But its stable(r) now. Imagine waking up each morning with your coffee and getting an email with a list of your favorite players and how they did the prior day.

You can add the email from your Accounts page.

+ Speaking of payments, I modified the payment system so that you can pay for services through credit card. It still uses PayPal technology but you don't have to go through a PayPal account. I think this is good news. I think its good news for me, at the very least. There should be less abandoned carts I would presume. Assume. Surmise.

+ My card store continues to grow. 3,273 listings as of this moment. I make several sales per day. I send the cards out within a day. I get excited. I have a system. Its fun.

I find it amusing how I receive offers from people on low-end cards and we haggle back and forth over a 25-cent difference. He offers $1 on a $1.50 card and I say nay-nay. I ask for $1.35. To tell him I hold the card in higher value and am willing to not sell the card to him. He comes back at $1.20 and I think, you couldn't even get to $1.25? And so I decline. I guess its all about principle an card-flipping but at this price point... its amusing.

+ Did you know you could view Opening Day Lineups for each team throughout the years? Here's 2021

> I'm on turf. Nestled between 2 posts holding up the outfield fence. Blue solo cups pressed into fence slightly to my right in the shape of my daughter's uniform number. 7 other numbers line the outfield fence. The sky is clear.

Do we give the flowers now or later? A pitcher's parents have 3 bouquets lying on a bench. "Get the flowers" my wife tells me. "In the car?" "Yes" she replies. Its 11:30am and the ceremony is supposed to start at 11:30am. So I run. We parked far. There are NE10 lacrosse playoff games on campus. Parking was at a premium. I find the car. I open all doors and no flowers. I say a bad word. I call my wife. She doesn't answer. I say 2 bad words. I run to my daughter's dorm, luckily close to the field. I take the stairs 2 at a time. This is why I jog, I tell myself. I'm too old to be doing this yet I am doing it. The flowers are on the table.

I run back to the field. My daughter calls us over and we walk behind the fence to left field and for a minute or two, I'm a left-fielder tracking a tailing liner towards the foul line. When I hit the brown turf of the infield, I feel something inside that my alexithymia only knows as good. I like being on the field. My daughter directs us behind the dugout. "We're first" she says. "My number is the lowest."

And as if they were waiting for me to run down those flowers, the public address announcer begins. He describes my daughter's 2-year career statistically, crafted to maximize impact even though she is struggling in 2026. He lists her Junior College accomplishments. He describes her passion and love for the sport. And then we're walking back onto the field. The young, Female, recently-pregnant Head Coach hugs my daughter. Then my wife. Then me. I'm not a hugger. I was not expecting this. But I'm on camera. Everyone is watching. Autism put aside. "Congratulations" she says. "Congratulations to YOU" I reply with replacement-level smoothness. She hands my daughter a giant frame with a Jersey and her number. Her name in blue below it. Its amazing. "I'm putting this in my office" I say as we walk to take a picture at home plate. "Can I?" She smiles and nods but I know my timing is off and she gets to choose.

We take the picture. I think I smile. And then we walk to an imaginary line that the photographer points us to between the pitching mound and second base.

We wait as the other 7 seniors come out with their families. Some have grandparents. Some have aunts and uncles. Some have boyfriends. Some have brothers and sisters. Some have brothers girlfriends. Everyone has someone. I'm glad for that.

And 20 minutes later, we are walking back to our spot next to the blue solo cups. They announce the starting lineups with my daughter batting 7th and playing first base. A Senior Day privilege. And then they play "Oh Canada" for us. For my daughter. We feel seen and we smile as we stare at the American Flag beyond Centerfield.

+ I added a new view on the TBC Daily Newspaper page. BUT, its only for TBC PREMIUM subscribers.

So you know how those paper-y newspapers used to include full stats for all teams and you'd eat your Lucky Charms and go team by team, digesting those stats like they too were pink hearts or blue moons... Well, that view was created a few months ago. That's NOT what we're talking about here.

But its similar. Its a view of all Major Leaguers, 24 and under, active in 2026 (or current season) and their MLB stats. Sometimes you just wanna focus on the youngsters right?

+ Baseball Card Collectors, another way to help support TBC is to buy a card (or 6?) from TBC's Baseball Card Store. I got a Konnor Griffin, a red bordered Nick Kurtz, maybe 10 Ohtani's, plus I have an auction for the HOT but injured Trey Yesavage.

I ship next-day and there are more than 3000 cards in the store.

+ Also added a new Baseball Card set. 2026 Topps Series 1 updated. Some good rookies in here. McLean, Misiorowski, Anthony, Tolle, Chandler, Burns, Caglianone and Tong.