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 …
My preview of the Yankees-Indians series, which starts this evening, is up at Baseball Prospectus. Yankee fans reading this may not be too happy to know that I’m picking against the Bombers. As a fan, I won’t be unhappy if I’m wrong, but as an analyst, I’m basing the call on a few things: • …
First things first: I’m chatting today at 1 PM Eastern over at Baseball Prospectus, and I’ll have a Division Series preview of the Yankees-Indians matchup there tomorrow. The regular season finale of the Hit List will follow later this week. Yes, I’m back from my European sojourn, though you’d barely know it around these parts. …
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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 …
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be hosting a chat at Baseball Prospectus today at 2 PM Eastern. Hit List, JAWS, Yankees, Dodgers, Brewers, Mets, It Ain’t Over, pennant races, sausage races, the World Series of Cockfighting, the Simpsons, whatever’s on your mind — drop by and as a question or …
Another week, another Hit List, this one completed at breakneck speed since I more or less put myself out of commission on Wednesday with a combination of radio, my BP chat, and a trip to Yankee Stadium to see the hottest team in baseball. And no, I don’t mean the Diamondbacks, who left New York …
Once again — the tenth time, by my count — I’ll be hosting a chat at Baseball Prospectus on Wednesday at 1 PM Eastern. Dodgers, Yankees, Hit List, JAWS, The Sopranos finale, the eternal genius of Tony La Russa, anything but the draft — you’re barking up the wrong tree there. Drop by with a …
Roger Clemens was on my mind last week. Thanks to a John Perroto piece at Baseball Prospectus, incorporating him into the week’s Hit List was an inevitability, but I managed to have some fun with it: Despite the arrival of Hunter Pence, the Astros are decidedly earthbound after nine losses in 10 games, and at …
On Monday, my JAWS article about the Veterans Committee was published at Baseball Prospectus publication. Tuesday saw the voting results — another shutout — announced, and when I blogged it at BP Unfiltered, I added a veiled dig at the New York Times‘ Murray Chass, who had… well, I’ll give him the rope: I receive …
…and sometimes you’re just wrong, as I was when I thought my BP chat was on Monday at 4 PM. It’s Tuesday at 4 PM EST, two hours after the Veterans Committee voting results are announced by the Hall of Fame. If there’s a silver lining to the fact that I was all sugared up …
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