A blog analyzing Major League Baseball through the lens of Astrology
Welcome to Astrology Baseball, a project where I arrange MLB players into teams based on their astrological signs, and then pit those teams against each other in mock fantasy seasons.
2022 Taurus In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Taurus entered the history books as the sign of the new American League single season home run record holder, Aaron Judge, who broke Roger Maris’s mark of 61 from 1961… which was set 61 years ago!
2022 Libra In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. Libra has had a stranglehold on the Air Division in the recent past, and now just because of the weakness of their competition.
2022 Cancer In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! No sign had a more potent offensive attack in 2022 than the Cancer Crabs, although they unfortunately paired that with the weakest pitching staff in the league.
2022 Aries In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! Depending on your take on positional eligibility rules, Aries either finished third in the league, or seventh.
2022 Pisces In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League! Going by fantasy points accrued by each sign’s “starting roster,” Pisces was the number two sign, and tops in the Water Division.
2022 Virgo In-Depth Look
With the 2022 regular season freshly in the books, what better time to take an in-depth look at all 12 signs in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. I’m starting with the Virgo Flowers, the top scoring sign by any method of measurement.
2022 Expanded Points Totals
Since this is the current MLB season, I decided to take a deeper look at the numbers of the players on each sign beyond just the top 17 on the starting roster. I spent this last week calculating fantasy points for every player with at least 100 plate appearances or 20 innings pitched in 2022, and came up with some expanded totals.
1962 Fantasy Astrology Recap
1962 saw the addition of two new teams in the National League: the New York Mets and the franchise that would later become the Houston Astros. That means that, in reverse-chronological terms, 1962 is the LAST year where the Major Leagues had as many as 20 teams – that is, until the Negro Leagues in the late 40’s, which of course were not recognized as Major Leagues at the time.
2022 Wild Card Round Recap
It’s a little ironic, isn’t it? It’s the start of the postseason, when excitement for baseball has reached a fever pitch… and I can’t even be bothered to blog about it, because I’m too busy plugging the season-ending numbers into my patented astrology database! But now, I’m taking a break to recap the first ever Wild Card round matchups!
1963 Fantasy Astrology Recap
In 1963, for the fourth time in the last five reverse-chronological years, Leo was the Fantasy Astrology team to beat. But as for the runner-up sign, and the leader in the Negative Polarity, that comes down to a battle between the Taurus Bulls of MVP Willie Mays and the Capricorn Goats of CYA winner Sandy Koufax.
1964 Fantasy Astrology Recap
In 1964, the four Fantasy Astrology division winners are the same, even when you follow positional eligibility rules to the letter. These types of finishes will likely become fewer and farther between as we move backwards in history, and the number of MLB teams continues to shrink. But all we can do is enjoy them when they occur, and push this project as far back as we possibly can.
2022 Head-to-Head Finals
In a surprise to no one, Virgo has defeated Scorpio in the first round of the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League postseason. In the Positive Polarity, Libra winning the Air Division has always been a foregone conclusion. But Sagittarius had the lowest aggregate point total in the Fire Division, but still made the playoffs by a one game margin!
1965 Fantasy Astrology Recap
In a bit of trivia that’s immaterial to Fantasy Astrology Baseball, 1965 was the year of the first amateur player draft. The draft undoubtedly affected the fortunes of the players in the Fantasy Astrology League, but since players are assigned to their astrology teams at birth, their signs have more significance than the whims of certain scouts and front office executives.
1966 Fantasy Astrology Recap
The period between 1966 and 1967 was a rare bit of calm in an otherwise hectic flurry of movement and expansion in MLB. The Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta prior to 1966, with the Angels making the less-impactful move from Los Angeles to Orange County, changing their name to the California Angels in the process. And then of course after 1967, the Athletics would move from Kansas City to Oakland.
2022 Head-to-Head Playoffs
This week marked the beginning of the 2022 Astrology Fantasy Baseball League playoffs! This is the weekly matchup league I run on the ESPN fantasy baseball client, NOT the hypothetical postseason affair, where participants are decided by calculating total fantasy points over the course of the season. And trust me, there is a difference.
1967 Fantasy Astrology Recap
For those of you hoping to see a (reverse-chronological) continuation of the pitching dominance of 1968, with multiple 4,000-point performances and pitchers occupying most of the top 30 spots on the fantasy leaderboard, I regret to inform you that things were more balanced in 1967.
1943 AAGPBL Recap
I just finished watching the A League of Their Own series on Amazon Prime Video, and I thoroughly enjoyed this new take on a classic story. And what’s more, it provides a historical backdrop to a whole new avenue to extend my Astrology Baseball research: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League!
1968 Fantasy Astrology Recap
One statistical change in 1969 had a massive impact on how we evaluate fantasy players: it was the first season where saves were recorded as an official stat by Major League Baseball. So from 1968 and earlier, a relief pitcher who finished the game and preserved a lead of three runs or less got zero recognition.
2022 Leo Season Recap
As Virgo season was approaching, I realized with dismay that it had been weeks since I looked at the rosters or standings of my Astrology Fantasy League. As the Internet’s foremost authority on Fantasy Astrology Baseball, I sure have been negligent in my duties as Fantasy Astrology league manager.
1969 Fantasy Astrology Recap
While I was building the Fantasy Astrology Lineups for 1969, I couldn’t seem to shake a feeling of dread. 1969 was the culmination of the expansion era, with FOUR teams celebrating their inaugural seasons. We’ll see if I’m able to build serviceable lineups for all 12 signs next time, but for now, let’s enjoy the last season when MLB consisted of 24 teams.