Baseball Prospectus has a new blog, and I took the opportunity to follow up my latest Hall of Fame ballot piece with my Unfiltered debut, featuring a couple of JAWS-flavored notes on Jeff Bagwell (who retired today) and Cal Ripken, Jr. Enjoy!
Yes, I’m still alive. My social life has been reduced to an afterthought. Mealtimes last 20 minutes if I’m alone, maybe 22 minutes if my wife is around (she’s a saint, and she understands what this time of year means for me). My apartment looks like a used bookstore after an earthquake hit, with a …
My latest chat at Baseball Prospectus went two-and-a-half hours, neither my longest nor my most prolific. Frankly, given all of my travels this week (roundtrip to Boston in a day and a cross-country weekend trip looming), I was pretty cooked. It would have been my preference to reschedule. I didn’t have quite my usual joie …
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Thanks to the great amount of feedback my recent JAWS series on the Hall of Fame ballot and its subsequent follow-up chat generated, I received enough good questions from Baseball Prospectus readers to make a mailbag piece worthwhile. Topics include the cases for Tim Raines, John Olerud, and Pete Rose, the relative merits of Mariano …
My third and final piece evaluating the 2006 Hall of Fame ballot is up at Baseball Prospectus, this one tackling the relievers. Because there are only three of them in the Hall (Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers, and Dennis Eckersley), and because Eck was a starter for half his career, computing a positional JAWS standard as …
Somewhere around 1:00 AM this morning, when my latest piece on the Hall of Fame ballot was past late and waaaaay too long, I decided to cut and run with just the starting pitchers, leaving the relievers — whose methodology I’m still tweaking — for another day (word to the wise: no spreadsheets after midnight). …
In my Thanksgiving post a few weeks back, I made mention of an exciting development that would be keeping me busy up until the holidays. With the contract signed (not to mention a good chunk of the work done), now it can be told: I’m writing player comments for Fantasy Baseball Index, a well-circulated annual …
Last week, Rafael Palmeiro joined the 3,000 Hit Club, the 26th player to reach that milestone. More interestingly joined Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray as just the fourth player to reach 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Yeah, those guys could hit. Despite all of this, ESPN Page 2’s Skip Bayless published an article …