Given three articles and a chat since my last post, I’ll be clearing the decks with links to each individual piece rather than one monster post. First up is the AL West installment of the Outside Help series. Here’s the intro and the part about the Angels: The AL West was the American League’s weakest …
So, over the past three years, I’ve talked to two other WSJ reporters at length a total of five or six times, for maybe an hour and a half, without getting my name in that paper (not that I’m counting). While part of me wishes that the eloquent command of the Yankee Stadium ticket issue …
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Our long dreadlocked drama is over. MLB.com and ESPN report that after more than four months of arduous negotiations and more spin than the 2008 presidential election, Manny Ramirez has returned to the fold. From MLB’s Ken Gurnick and Barry Bloom: The deal was closed, pending a physical, at a meeting in Los Angeles attended …
I’m mad as hell about the Yankees’ ticket situation, and I’m not gonna take it any more. Instead of being offered our $25 seats, or even anything between the bases, we had been assigned $85 seats in section 107… …right behind the right field foul pole. Obstructed view, at more than triple the price of …
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I’ve got a pair of articles at BP and ESPN Insider focusing on young players whom PECOTA forecasts to break out, which in terms of our forecasting system means improving their productivity at least 20 percent relative to their three-year baseline. From the hitters piece (BP and ESPN): Not every top prospect hits the ground …
In the years before the baseball bug returned to my life, the Utah Jazz were at the center of my sports universe, and the annual attempts of the John Stockton/Karl Malone/Jerry Sloan teams to win an NBA championship were as absorbing as any Dodgers or Yankees team if not more, since they remained part of …
I’ll be making half a dozen bookstore appearances on the East Coast next month to promote Baseball Prospectus 2009. Here’s the schedule, with times subject to change: March 10, 7 PM: Steven Goldman, Jay JaffeB&N @ Johns Hopkins University3330 St. Paul StreetBaltimore, MD 21218 March 12, 6 PM: Kevin Goldstein, Steven Goldman, Jay Jaffe, Neil …
In addition to flattering me with some choice casting, El Lefty Malo (a/k/a Alex Lash, a mentor from way back) raised a provocative question in this post last week: is sabermetrics anti-labor? One thing about our sabremetric era that doesn’t get discussed much: it’s inherently anti-labor. “Efficiencies” is not a word workers want to hear …
A fistful of links from the past couple of weeks, none of them having to do with steroids or A-Rod (we’ll get those in another post. Maybe.)… • Baseball Prospectus 2009 is shipping from Amazon.com and on the bookshelves of your local retailer. I’ve had a copy in hand since last Friday, and it’s as chockfull …
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I’m not sure what’s going on with Blogger but when I came to check on this page several minutes ago, none of my posts from the past week were visible. The problem appears to have been taken care of with a simple republishing of a post, but I apologize for anyone experiencing temporary busted links …