This week’s Prospectus Hit List is here. Given the short week following the All-Star break, I decided to shake things up a bit, stepping back to look at the list from a few different angles rather than another 30-team roundup. A remix, if you will. I took a look at how the AL’s big advantage …
The All-Star break edition of the Prospectus Hit List is up; here’s my intro: Don’t ask about the All-Star Game; this scribe boycotted, and it looks like I’ve got seven more years of same ahead of me. Seven more years of treating the game, its surrounding irrelevant contests, and the inane selection debates with all …
So much to write about, so little time, but it will all have to wait until the All-Star break edition of the Hit List is finished… • I planned to give this more of a buildup, but like the song goes, time won’t let me. I’m boycotting the All-Star Game and have been all season: …
continued from here Friday…to hit the convention’s highlight, a Seattle Pilots panel featuring Jim Bouton, Steve Hovley, Mike Marshall, and Jim Pagliaroni, and moderated by ESPN’s Jim Caple. Even with an ungodly early 9 AM start, the panel had the ballroom packed with a few hundred people ready to hear the story of Major League …
I had a genuine blast during my three days at the SABR Convention in Seattle — the first I’ve ever attended — spending hours talking baseball with other likeminded nuts, listening to presentations and panel discussions, and even taking in a ballgame. Most of the people I met were familiar names if not faces; it …
Things to write when you find yourself awake before 8 AM due to the time zone difference… • I’m far from being the world’s biggest Peter Gammons fan, but my thoughts and best wishes go out to Gammons, who underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm on Tuesday. At 61, Gammons is no spring chicken, no …
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You know it’s a long road trip when you pack multiple throwback jerseys; I’ve got my Fernando Valenzuela Dodgers #34 and my Seattle Pilots Jim Bouton #56 in the suitcase as I light out for Seattle and L.A. for the better part of the next two weeks. Hope to see some of you at SABR! …
It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at Futility Central as I try to wrap up a major design project as well as keep up with my usual Baseball Prospectus writing flow before heading out of town. I leave on Tuesday for Seattle, where I’m spending a week centered around the annual SABR convention. …
This week’s Prospectus Hit List went up yesterday, with the Big Apple holding the top two spots. Fresh off a 6-1 week that included a four-game sweep of the Diamondbacks by a combined score of 37-9, the Mets top the list while the Yanks, who lost four straight from Thursday to Sunday, still had enough …
Yesterday an article of mine on the untimely passing of former MLB ump Eric Gregg — who died Monday at the age of 55 following a massive stroke — went up at Baseball Prospectus. I’d written a short paragraph about Gregg in this week’s Hit List, but when my editor, John Erhardt, suggested cutting a …