The Playoff Prospectus I wrote for the Dodgers-Cardinals series is up at BP. It’s epic in length, which somehow explains why I didn’t get to see the final inning of the Game 163 play-in, because I didn’t set my TiVo to record more than an extra hour of the game, and by the time I …
The third installment of the series shot Monday with Bronx Banter’s Alex Belth, Cliff Corcoran and myself is now up at the SNY.tv video channel. This one discusses the Twins, the Yankees’ first-round opponents (given that it was shot before Tuesday night’s Game 163 play-in, we also shot a Tigers’ segment that will never air). …
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The second installment of the series shot Monday with Bronx Banter’s Alex Belth, Cliff Corcoran and myself is now up at the SNY.tv video channel. This one previews the Red Sox-Angels series, and finds me in motormouth form trying to squeeze in all my points about the Angels’ offense and the Red Sox shoddy defense. …
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Earlier today, I shot a series of short video segments with Bronx Banter’s Alex Belth and Cliff Corcoran for their SNY.tv video channel in which we discuss the 2009 Yankees, their playoff chances, and the rest of the AL playoff slate. Yes, we had to shoot two segments because the tossup in the AL Central …
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With the Dodgers nearly backing into the playoffs and the Yankees still waiting to find out whether they’ll play a streaking opponent or a slumping one in the first round, today at Baseball Prospectus I took a look at the link between late-season momentum and postseason success: Against long odds, the final week of the …
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I’m pleased to announce my debut in this week’s issue of New York Magazine, with an article about the Baseball Prospectus “Secret Sauce” metric, first introduced by Nate Silver and Dayn Perry in Baseball Between the Numbers in 2006 and discussed at length here. With Nate having moved onto politics, the NY Mag editors were …
From today’s Baseball Prospectus column: After nearly 48 hours of second-guessing regarding the circumstances under which Game Five was played and halted, speculation as to how the Rays could sustain their stay of execution to overcome a 3-1 series deficit, and unanswered questions about travel days and the amount of rest Cole Hamels might need …
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 …
Recently the guys who run “The Young Guns” show on Boston’s WWZN have begun posting MP3s of their guests. My hit from this morning, discussing the outlook for the Phillies-Rays World Series, the fate of Manny Ramirez and the pair of offseason quandries the Red Sox face regarding Jason Varitek and David Ortiz, is here. …
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 …