Breaking Pitches and Broken Pitchers My pal Nick, a.k.a. the Clubhouse Lawyer, called my attention to a study published in the July-August 2002 American Journal of Sports Medicine regarding youth pitchers and injury. The study found a significant correlation between the number and type of pitches thrown and the rate of elbow and shoulder pain …
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Sponsored by The Futility Infielder The Internet is a tough racket to make a buck in, kiddo. I learned it the hard way. Six years ago, I worked for a weasel whose company churned out guidebooks about websites. Real paper-and-ink books about a medium that was moving so fast it turned our product into Instant …
Two Week Notice By now you know that the Major League Baseball Players Association finally set a strike date on Friday, giving themselves and the owners two weeks to work out a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. After a rare glimpse of optimism earlier in the week, both sides now sound increasingly pessimistic about bridging their …
Stretch of What? What do you do in a wild card race when the most un-clutch pitcher of his generation, Kenny “The Gambler” Rogers, turns you down”? You make another move for the stretch drive. You acquire a guy who’s 4-9 with a 4.55 ERA and a reputation for being soft, a guy whose last …
D’oh! A reader named Phil pointed out to me that Claude Osteen was in fact a lefty. So much for my memory–I even found a picture of the baseball card I was thinking of. Sure enough, he was STILL a lefty. I have traded my fact-checking monkey to the Cincinnati Reds for Pete Rose’s sideburns.
Claude Osteen??? Speaking of the Royals… former correspondant from the depths of the the AL Central Rany Jazayerli has an excellent study on Baseball Prospecuts comparing pitchers in a five-man rotation versus those in a four-man rotation. Rany studied 68 pitchers who made between 37 and 43 starts in a season between 1973 and 1975 …
Something You Don’t See Every Day Watching tonight’s Yanks-Royals game, the Royals just took a 2-1 lead as Mike Sweeney brazenly stole home off of Andy Pettitte. Sweeney, who was just activated at the beginning of the series after missing a month, isn’t exactly known for his speed (now 5 SB this year, 35 for …
Clearing the Bases, Sweating Profusely It’s a hot August night in New York City, following a long, hot day. Hot enough that a power transformer went down near my office, causing a fire that blew off two manhole covers, one less than 50 feet from my window. At this point I can’t string more than …
Notes on a Weekend On Sunday, in and around the several other things I was doing, I watched Mike Mussina trudge his way through six ugly innings against the Oakland A’s. He allowed 11 hits and 4 runs, including an upper-deck 2-run home run to Terrence Long, but the Yanks rung up 8 on Mark …
Coming to Jeter’s Defense… Or Not I’ve been getting a bit more response from my readers lately, both in the comments feature of this blog (found at the end of each post, where it usually says “Comments [0]”), via email, and through other people’s weblogs. One of my readers, John C., has offered some lengthy …