Doubling up with yesterday’s Hit and Run column, I had a chat at BP as well. Alas, it was fraught with technical difficulties that slowed the system considerably, limiting the number of questions I could get to without pulling my hair out: frampton (Oakland, CA): Thanks for the chat! You alluded in today’s article to …
Since we last spoke: • In Friday’s column at Baseball Prospectus, “A Tale of Two Right Fielders,” I discussed the way the spotlight seemed to find the Phillies’ Jayson Werth and the Rays’ Rocco Baldelli all night long in Game Two. Both players took unlikely routes to the World Series, and each threw out the other …
It’s all the Jaffe you can eat today. I’ve got my hand in not one but two pieces today at Baseball Prospectus. First, there’s a little something that Joe Sheehan and I cooked up, a thought experiment in which we pooled the Rays’ and Phillies’ rosters and chose up sides, schoolyard style, based simply on …
Quick radio note: in addition to my usual gig on Toledo’s WLQR 1470 AM at 4:10 PM Eastern today, I’ll be this week’s Baseball Prospectus representative on Boston’s WWZN 1510 on “The Young Guns Show” at 3:05 PM Eastern. The Toledo gig doesn’t have a means of listening via Internet (hey Norm, get on it!) …
It’s only been a few days shy of four weeks since my last Baseball Prospectus chat long since we last chatted, but the powers that be have threatened to show me naked pictures of David Wells if I don’t take the hill for another chat on Tuesday at 1 PM Eastern. Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Brewers, …
In Friday’s XM Radio appearance on the Rotowire Fantasy Sports Hour, host Chris Liss and I discussed my “Big Lugs and Small Sample Sizes” piece from earlier in the week. Chris threw me for a loop with the entry of Carlos Delgado into the discussion; as noted in this week’s Hit List, I’m pretty down …
Busy day: • A Prospectus Hit List to go with Wednesday’s Hit and Run piece on struggling rotations, with special focus on the current Tigers and the historically awful Rangers, with an aside about the Yankees’ failure to get innings from their starting five (5.07 per start). • a spot on the Rotowire Fantasy Sports …
The day after my JAWS-flavored take on the starting pitchers on the 2008 Hall of Fame ballot ran at Baseball Prospectus, my take on the relievers is up as well, thus — to my great relief — completing this year’s series (the reliever portion is free, the starter one is sub-only). For those who have …
In today’s edition of Prospectus Hit and Run, I provide an updated taste of a chapter I wrote for the recently-released It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: the Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book: In a pennant race, every edge matters. The late-season heroics of one individual may turn a close race into a tale of …