Clearing out some notes as I breathe a heavy sigh of relief at the passing of my final Fantasy Baseball Index update deadline and sit down to watch the Yankees’ second game of the year — my first chance to see the on my big new TV… • As eager as I always am for …
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Halfway through my mad, mad month here. Thus far the spring update coverage for Fantasy Baseball Index has gone well. Though I’m actually less of a fantasy junkie than my intended audience, it’s one of my favorite projects of the entire year. Not only do I immerse myself in the familiar tropes of spring — …
Most sports fans associate March Madness with the NCAA college basketball tournament, but for me, the month is a crazy one due to the demands of my various writing positions as they pertain to spring training. For the third year in a row, I’m handling Fantasy Baseball Index‘s spring update coverage, delivering camp notes for …
Spurred by a reader email, I took a look at where the Mets’ newly-minted Johan Santana-Pedro Martinez tandem fit in as far as great duos — not necessarily in terms of how well they pitched as teammates but rather what they had done or would do over the course of their careers. I measured each …
The following is an encore presentation of one of my favorite FI blog entries, originally posted June 5, 2004 and itself recalling one of my favorite baseball books (thankfully restored to in-print status since the original entry). More beer-soaked linkaliciousness here. • • • Friday marked the 30th anniversary of one of the more colorful …
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 …
I’ve been thinking about Jackie Robinson lately, and not just because today is the 60th anniversary of his major league debut, the momentous occasion that broke the big leagues’ color barrier and changed the face of this country. Recently I stumbled across a monument to another key step in Robinson’s journey, and over the winter …
The world of futility infielders has lost one of its legendary practitioners in John Vukovich, who passed away this week at age 59. Vukovich, a .161 career hitter, holds a rather dubious distinction, as I wrote at BP Unfiltered, but the 40 years he gave to the game as a player, coach, interim manager and …
In the wee hours of the past few nights, amid my other deadlines and drama I’ve inevitably found myself IMing with Steven Goldman about my various contributions to It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: the Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book. Two nights ago, the topic was 1967 (one of my two narrative chapters), and Tiger …