Merry Christmas

Last year I linked to the Baseball Reference page for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, er Shortstop.

This year Rudolph had a slight dip in batting average, but his home runs rose and his OPS was stable.

BR took things a bit further this year, linking to a new card set for the North Pole Reindeer of the Holiday League -- the eight reindeer named in the Night Before Christmas plus Rudolph.

Here, for example, is the card for Comet, ace right-hander for the Reindeer. The back of the card says he went 20-13 with a 2.89 ERA and 341 strikeouts in 299 innings last season.

See the starting lineup for the North Pole Reindeer here.