Retrosheet vs VMware Blogs

Retrosheet lands on Worth it, and VMware Blogs lands on Depends.

Retrosheet

retrosheet.org

Analyzed October 13, 2026

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

Sabermetricians, historians, and developers who parse raw data buy this; it is the gold standard archive for historical MLB play-by-play.

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VMware Blogs

blogs.vmware.com

Analyzed October 3, 2026

Depends

Confidence: Low

This is VMware's (now Broadcom's) official corporate blog, not a purchasable product . read it free for VMware technical and security updates, skip it if you're shopping for software.

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Retrosheet versus VMware Blogs
Compare	Retrosheet	VMware Blogs
Verdict	Worth it	Depends
Best for	Sabermetricians who code	IT teams tracking VMware/Broadcom product updates
Who it's not for	Casual fans wanting a point-and-click stats site	Anyone shopping for software . nothing here to buy
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁰	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁴
Support quality	Volunteer help via RetroList mailing list.	No support channel exists for a blog.
Public sentiment	Users praise the depth and reliability of the data but note it works best once loaded into a database.^³	No sources review this site as a product; community sentiment says blog audiences are migrating to Reddit and newsletters.¹⁵
Biggest gotcha	Event files need heavy parsing; expect real setup work before analysis.^⁴	All content is vendor marketing; expect bias toward VMware/Broadcom, not independent analysis.¹³

Pick Retrosheet when

Sabermetricians who code
Baseball historians and authors
Researchers building game databases
Game and simulation developers

When Retrosheet is not a fit

Casual fans wanting a point-and-click stats site
Teams needing real-time current-season feeds
Buyers demanding support SLAs or vendor contracts
Non-technical users unwilling to parse raw files

Pick VMware Blogs when

IT teams tracking VMware/Broadcom product updates
Security teams watching VMware advisories
Buyers researching VMware before a purchase

When VMware Blogs is not a fit

Anyone shopping for software . nothing here to buy
Teams wanting blogging software or a platform
Buyers wanting independent reviews; this is vendor marketing
People wanting real opinions; Reddit threads serve that better

Sources

MLB Play-by-Play, Every Pitch Since 1915 (Apify scraper)apify.com
review
Retrosheet: Play-By-Play Data At Your Fingertips (PitcherList)pitcherlist.com
review
Using Retrosheet on Mac (Reddit)reddit.com
review
Building a Retrosheet database, part 3 (SABR)sabr.org
official
Fall 2023 Release (Retrosheet)retrosheet.org
official
chadwickbureau/retrosplits (GitHub)github.com
official
Current season play-by-play data thread (Reddit)reddit.com
review
2023 MLB media guide citing Retrosheetimg.mlbstatic.com
official
Attendance study using Retrosheet data (ScienceDirect)sciencedirect.com
news
Retrosheet security page (404)retrosheet.org
security
Insecure connection report (Reddit wget)reddit.com
security
RetroList mailing listgroups.io
review
VMware Blogsblogs.vmware.com
official
VMware Product Security Blogblogs.vmware.com
official
Reddit is slowly replacing blogs for actual opinionsreddit.com
review
Long story short: Newsletters are the new blogs.reddit.com
review