Just a reminder that my first Baseball Prospectus chat is slated for Thursday, November 3 at 1:00 PM Eastern. I’ve had a chance to preview the questions submitted by BP and FI readers and there are plenty of good ones, but I certainly would welcome more, so follow the link above if you have one …
It’s a horrible time to be a young, progressive GM or a statheaded fan of one. In a three-day span we’ve seen both the Dodgers’ Paul DePodesta and the Red Sox Theo Epstein leave their posts, the former fired by a thin-skinned, impatient owner, the latter unwilling to work with his poisonous viper of a …
The curtain came down on the 2005 season rather abruptly, with the White Sox sweeping the Astros 4-0 in the World Series and claiming their first World Championship since 1917. Despite the sweep, it was a riveting if not particularly well-played series, with the four games decided by a total of six runs, and three …
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It’s been awhile since I actually discussed any of the baseball that’s still being played, at least in this forum. But it isn’t as though I haven’t been watching the action. I spent a chunk of time over the weekend working on my latest piece for the New York Sun, the subject of which was …
If you’re a frequent reader of this space, you know that the buzzards had been circling Yankee pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre long before he made his departure official last week. Stottlemyre’s sacred-cowness within the Yankee organization was a drum I’ve been banging since last fall, and I certainly wasn’t the only one. The Yankees’ slow …
And now for a Futility Infielder first: it’s time to get biblical. Like most observant Jews, I spent a good portion of last Thursday at services for Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. I didn’t go there with the intention of thinking about baseball, or at least no moreso than I usually do while …
As promised, here’s the ballot I cast in the Internet Baseball Awards. Most of my choices are informed by various metrics at Baseball Prospectus, among them Value Above Replacement Player (VORP), Wins Above Replacement Player (WARP), Support Neutral Lineup Adjusted Value Above Replacement for starting pitchers, Reliever Expected Wins Added, and the recently introduced Win …
The Internet Baseball Awards voting ends tonight at 11:00 PST. Make your picks for all the major awards and you might win a free subscription to BP. At the very least you can reacquaint yourself with the great banner I designed for the IBA a couple of years ago. You can’t put a price on …
For just the second time in the last eight years, the American League Championship Series will proceed without the Yankees, who were eliminated Monday night with a dispiriting 5-3 loss to the Angels. The breaks didn’t go their way, they made some key mistakes (including the manager, who stood idly by as Mike Mussina was …
Back with the bullets because my gun is still loaded… • After speeding through 18 innings of Astros-Braves, I was worried I might be as blasé about the night’s Yankees game, much as I had been after watching the finale of the Sox^2 game on Friday. I was even more worried the Yankee Stadium field …