I spent four and a half hours at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, four and a half tense, exciting, but ultimately depressing hours watching the Yanks fall to the Red Sox yet again in a 12-inning, 3-2 affair. The Yankees have now lost five out of six to the Sox and stand at 8-10 today, when …
A funny thing happened on the way to my blog. What had started out on Sunday morning as an email to Dayn Perry in appreciation for last week’s Baseball Prospectus article on Hank Aaron turned into a quick and dirty research project. That in turn grew to a multi-spreadsheet undertaking and then into an overlong, …
Very little of the baseball I saw this weekend — watching the Yanks’ lackluster showing in Boston or attending Sunday’s latest Met debacle as they were swept by the Pirates — was any good for the home team. But none of that meant anything to me compared to my own good news. To accompany a …
Reader Chris G. passed along a funny article about itinerant reliever Todd Jones, now with the Cincinnati Reds. Recall that Jones’ most notable accomplishment last season — besides drawing a $3 million paycheck for 68.2 innings of 7.08 ERA ball — was (to paraphrase Jim Bouton) revealing himself to be as smart as his ERA. …
Though the “official” date passed last Friday and I’ve mentioned it just about everywhere else on this site, I haven’t posted the news to this blog yet: the Futility Infielder is now three years old. It’s hard to believe time has passed so quickly. Though it doesn’t feel quite like yesterday when I registered this …
Recently a friend and I were wondering aloud as to the whereabouts of Adrian “El Duquecito” Hernandez, a Cuban defector who spent the last four seasons collecting a cool million per year while pitching his way to a thorough tour of the Yankees’ minor-league outposts. Despite his major-league contract, Hernandez had bungled what slim chances …
If you came to this blog via my home page, you might have noticed a change: thanks to the wonders of Really Simple Syndication (RSS), I’m now able to bring in headlines and intros from my recent blog entries, which is what I was asking about a couple weeks ago. What I needed was to …
I’ve gotten my feet wet — literally — with the 2004 season, having paid visits to both New York City stadiums since I last posted. Come to think of it, paid is the wrong word, as I was treated to both games. Friday’s game found me at Yankee Stadium, courtesy of a client of mine …
Sometime last fall, I began noticing a poster on Baseball Primer who used the pseudonym “Chad Bradford Wannabe.” The name spoke volumes; through his occasional posts, I gradually learned that he was a sidearm-throwing minor-league pitcher in the independent Northeast League, and a student of the game who had taken Moneyball to heart. In November, …
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During the aftermath of a recent Baseball Prospectus Bookstore Pizza feed, Steven Goldman and I had a good laugh, rolling our eyes as we discussed a recent Selena Roberts New York Times piece that had drawn my ire and gained some infamy in the circles we travel. Goldman told me he was itching to write …