Rocket Ride (Slight Return)

Roger Clemens was on my mind last week. Thanks to a John Perroto piece at Baseball Prospectus, incorporating him into the week’s Hit List was an inevitability, but I managed to have some fun with it: Despite the arrival of Hunter Pence, the Astros are decidedly earthbound after nine losses in 10 games, and at …

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I’ve Seen It Be-Four

You call that a four-consecutive-homer onslaught? Puh-lease. While a few of my Baseball Prospectus colleagues were frothing at the mouth that the Red Sox’ back-to-back-to-back-to-back jacks last night was something they’d never seen, I could only remind them that one doesn’t have to go back any further than last September 18 for a precedent. That’s …

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Shorted Again [BP Unfiltered]

This ESPN Deportes poll asking readers to choose the greatest Latino shortstop of all time got me to pull out my JAWS spreadsheet. Not surprisingly, the choices ESPN offered — Luis Aparicio, Dave Concepcion, and Omar Vizquel — while fine players, are a not-quite-representative trio that conformed to the image of the light-hitting glove man …

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