TV, radio, print, web… I ain’t kidding about the multi: • As I’ve said for years, I recognize only one six o’clock, and it’s not the one with the milkman. The people involved with promoting Baseball Prospectus 2009 see things differently, however, and so it was that I had a car waiting at 5:50 AM this …
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Call off the search party. It’s been nearly three weeks since I posted, and in that span I’ve been swallowed up whole by the Baseball Prospectus 2009 book tour and the Fantasy Baseball Index Spring Update deadlines, a brutal schedule around which I’ve salted 10 radio hits and two TV appearances as well as a …
Another one of my Baseball Prospectus pieces syndicated on ESPN Insider, this one on trying to quantify what the absences of Alex Rodriguez and other stars would cost their teams in terms of runs and wins: When the news on Alex Rodriguez’s hip injury broke last week, the Baseball Prospectus crew brainstormed a few possible …
An ESPN Insider/Baseball Prospectus twin killing, this one looks at PECOTA’s picks for the most productive 27-year-olds: As with many a key sabermetric tenet, Bill James is responsible for introducing the idea that ballplayers, or at least hitters, reach their peak value at the age of 27. In fact, it was a serendipitous 27 years …
Given three articles and a chat since my last post, I’ll be clearing the decks with links to each individual piece rather than one monster post. First up is the AL West installment of the Outside Help series. Here’s the intro and the part about the Angels: The AL West was the American League’s weakest …
I’m mad as hell about the Yankees’ ticket situation, and I’m not gonna take it any more. Instead of being offered our $25 seats, or even anything between the bases, we had been assigned $85 seats in section 107… …right behind the right field foul pole. Obstructed view, at more than triple the price of …
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I’ve got a pair of articles at BP and ESPN Insider focusing on young players whom PECOTA forecasts to break out, which in terms of our forecasting system means improving their productivity at least 20 percent relative to their three-year baseline. From the hitters piece (BP and ESPN): Not every top prospect hits the ground …
A fistful of links from the past couple of weeks, none of them having to do with steroids or A-Rod (we’ll get those in another post. Maybe.)… • Baseball Prospectus 2009 is shipping from Amazon.com and on the bookshelves of your local retailer. I’ve had a copy in hand since last Friday, and it’s as chockfull …
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In today’s Hit and Run column at Baseball Prospectus, I take up “The Curious Case of Jeff Kent”, who retired last week: There’s no crying in baseball, which may or may not explain why Jeff Kent’s stoic facade crumbled during the press conference in which he announced his retirement last week. A notoriously gruff and …
After a week and a half of laying low following the delivery of my final Baseball Prospectus annual essays and JAWS pieces, I’ve re-emerged with both an article and a chat. Today’s piece at BP focuses on last week’s Hall of Fame voting results and their underlying patterns. After noting that Jim Rice made history …