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.
2024 Astrology Batters - First Impressions
I waited until a full day after the Dodgers finished off the Yankees in the World Serious before I started building my Fantasy Astrology Database for 2024. Virgo legend Freddie Freeman deservedly took home the MVP honors, and his sign was one of the two most represented in the game highlight reels found on MLB.com
Astrology Women’s Basketball
The WNBA is currently in the midst of an extended All-Star Break to allow some of the league’s star players to participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. This past weekend, the USA Women’s Basketball team defeated France in a shocking gold medal game.
2024 MLB Cancer Season Recap
Last weekend, the zodiac wheel turned to Cancer season, which lands closer to the MLB season’s halfway point than the All-Star break. Let’s take a look at the standings at the time of the Cardinal Water sign.
NBA 2024 Final Four
The NBA playoffs have just advanced to the conference finals stage! There’s a variety of ways to enjoy Astrology Sports, but one of the most results-oriented is to look at the real-life teams closest to achieving a real-life championship, and see which signs helped get them there.
Taurus Season Roster Update 2024
When I build the rosters for the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League teams each year, I rely heavily on preseason rankings. But as more and more games get played, we can start looking at fantasy point totals, to see which early breakout performers should merit addition to rosters for Taurus season, which began last Saturday.
2024 Aries Preview
I’ve always wondered if baseball players born under Aries are influenced by the fact that MLB’s Opening Day almost always falls during Aries season. Historically, the Rams have been one of the most successful Fantasy Astrology signs, and they’ve got another strong team here in 2024, according to MLB.com’s rankings of the top 300 fantasy players.
1945 Fantasy Astrology Recap
In 1945, many of MLB’s best star players were away fighting overseas in World War II. I thought that this might be an opportunity to showcase more Negro League players in the Fantasy Astrology ranks, but that proved not to be the case: despite segregation in sports, many of the top Negro League stars went away to war as well.
1946 Fantasy Astrology Recap
1946 is considered the first year of the Baby Boomer generation. Back then, the postwar optimism was high, the baseball was segregated, and the division winners in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball league were all pretty cut and dry – the same Final Four as in 1947, in fact.
1947 Fantasy Astrology Recap
1947 is year two of including Negro League players in my Astrology All-Time Database, and while it’s great to analyze the statistics and learn the history of the best Black and Latin players of the day, it’s also frustrating to see how much these players could have accomplished were they not excluded from the established Major League ranks at the time.
1948 Negro League Batters
The 1948 Aries Rams had a pretty solid outfield when considering only players in the established Major Leagues at the time. But there’s another Aries outfielder who just emerged on my database for the 1948 season: leftfielder Lester Lockett of the Baltimore Elite Giants (pronounced EE-light). That’s because 1948 is the last year where Baseball Reference has statistics for the Negro Leagues, of which BEG were the champions.
1948 Fantasy Astrology Recap
I was very excited to reach 1948 in my reverse chronological trip through baseball history, because it’s the last year with readily available Negro League statistics. I could wait to learn about the influx of amazing athletes, and add them to my All-Time Major League Astrology database, because the Negro Leagues are Major Leagues.
FABL 1950s Recap
The calendar flipping to 2024 seems like a perfect excuse to dust off this old blog and start posting regularly. When last we left our reverse-chronological trip through Fantasy Astrology Baseball History, we had finished the last year of the 1950s. So before starting a new decade, it’s fitting to look back at the ten years we just covered.
FABL 2023 Playoff Preview
This year, I haven’t been making changes to the FABL rosters during the season. But as it happens, the “set them and forget them” lineup strategy has resulted in three of the same four division winners as if I had retroactively calculated fantasy points as of this point in the season. The results might shock you…
2023 All-Star Reserves
It’s finally here: the day of the MLB All-Star Game! Which means it’s time to tally up the astrological signs of the rosters, including starters, pitchers, and reserves. Full disclosure: I know this does not technically represent the full rosters, because several players have been replaced due to injury.
2023 All-Star Pitchers
Last time, I broke down the 2023 All-Star starting lineups in terms of astrological signs. Leo was the clear leader, with five of the 18 players under consideration. The Lions were ahead of a crowded second place field: five different signs had two players each.
2023 All-Star Starters
The onset of summer is the time when baseball’s top players come together for the All-Star Game, which this year is taking place in Seattle on July 11. The starters were announced last Thursday, with the full rosters being added just two days ago.
2023 Gemini Season - Positive Signs
Last week, I wrote about the clear separation between the top and bottom halves of the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League. As of Gemini Season 2023, the top six teams reached 9,000 fantasy points (What? 9,000!?), while the bottom six had not eclipsed that milestone. But in a stroke of luck, the two 9,000-point Positive signs were the leaders of their respective divisions.
1954 Fantasy Astrology Recap
My obsession with filling bullpen spots with dedicated relievers really played havoc with the 1954 Fantasy Astrology Baseball League standings. To be clear, for my “official” standings, I will include any pitcher with more relief appearances than starts in a bullpen slot. But the difference is striking: Scorpio finished in first place in the league while following the looser guidelines, but they fall all the way to fifth when eligibility rules are followed.
1954 AAGPBL Recap
Last summer, in conjunction with the new A League of Their Own series on Amazon Prime, I analyzed the inaugural 1943 season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Now that I’ve reached 1954 in my reverse-chronological journey, it seems fitting to revisit the AAGPBL in its final season.
1958 Fantasy Astrology Recap
In the 10-year stretch from 1958 to 1967, only two signs led the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League in point totals. Leo had a seven-to-three advantage over Libra, but the 1958 season went to the Scales, the only sign to score as many as 25,000 points on the year.