My Hall of Fame Ballot–Part II In my previous post, I considered the pitchers I would add to my hypothetical Hall of Fame ballot. In this one I’ll consider the hitters. Before I go too deeply into this, I want to mention one thing that colors my thinking on this issue. The voting rules for …
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My Hall of Fame Ballot–Part I
About a month ago, I partook in the 2001 STATLG-L Internet Hall Of Fame vote, an online poll which simulates the portion of the Cooperstown process determined by the Baseball Writers of America. It’s open to anyone and everyone who wishes to cast their own electronic ballot, and just like the real thing, one can …
Happy New Year!!! Best wishes for a great 2002 to everyone reading this. I hope you all had happy holidays. Today I’m going to gorge on football, but I’ll be back with my irregularly scheduled postings in the next day or two.
Happy Birthday to Me, Rickey Henderson, and 64 Other Ballplayers December 25 marks a holiday for most of this country and probably, for most of my readership–if so, my sincere wishes for a happy holiday to you. For me the day is somewhat more paradoxical: I’m Jewish and thus don’t celebrate Christmas, which is fine …
Remaking the Yankees, Part VII: Adding It Up In analyzing the Yankees offseason moves over the past couple of weeks, I’ve largely steered clear of any commentary about the consequences of the Yanks’ spending spree, both for themselves and for the rest of baseball. I did this for several reasons: • First, because I wanted …
Remaking the Yankees, Part VI: The Bullpen In the era of the Feel-Good Yankee Dynasty, it’s ironic that one of the team’s most glaring weaknesses last season had its roots in an old-school Bronx Zoo-style feud. It started when Joe Torre bypassed his own righty setup man, Jeff Nelson, for a spot on the 2000 …
Remaking the Yankees, Part V-Point-Two: Patching the Rotation In my last piece, I examined the Yankee pitching rotation’s performance in 2001, and pointed out the gulf that existed between their top-line starters and the back of the rotation. Today I’ll examine their options for constructing the rotation for 2002. Their Big Three–Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens, …
Remaking the Yankees, Part V: Assessing the Rotation I’ve spent the past week and a half evaluating the Yankees’ options for revamping their offense this offseason. Given the attrition of several of their less effective hitters and the ability to spend BIG dollars to replace those hitters with significantly better ones, there’s no doubt that …
Remaking the Yanks, Part IV-Point-Something: The Ventura Deal It’s not as if the Futility Infielder eight-ball didn’t see the possiblity of a David Justice-for-Robin Ventura trade coming. But when it was being discussed in the New York Post a few of days ago, I took it for the Post’s usual modus operandi when it comes …
Technical Difficulties Apologies to any of you who had trouble finding this page earlier today. Apparently something is wrong with Reblogger, the service which allows readers to post comments to each article. I had to disable that feature–hell, I had to go on a search-and-destroy mission within my site’s code to weed it out–because when …