Through thick and thin over the past few years, even as their pitching and middle relief has gotten shakier, the one thing you could always rely upon was the Yankee offense. During the Joe Torre era, the team averaged 896 runs per year, 5.53 per game, with last year’s 968 (5.98 per game) topping them …
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 …
Once again, it was a very surreal scene to see baseball hauled in front of Congress for the purposes of posturing about steroids. From where I sat in the Fox News Radio Studio, where host Dave Anthony and I were joined via phone by Jim Bouton, it was a pretty bad day for Roger Clemens. …
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Those of you who drop by here for Yankees-related coverage — not that I’ve had much this winter — have probably noticed that I’ve had little to say on the Roger Clemens/Mitchell Report story in this forum. I haven’t been entirely silent on the issue, however. I was part of Fox News Radio’s in-studio anchored …
Just a quick and almost belated note to say that I’m going to be discussing JAWS and the recent Hall of Fame vote today (Saturday) at 10:25 AM on XM 175’s “Minors and Majors” show with Grant Paulsen, the 18-year-old broadcasting wunderkind. Better pound some coffee…
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 …
Happy 2008, everyone! Just a few quick notes this morning, the first of which is time-sensitive: • I’ve been invited to appear on XM 175, Hot Stove with Chuck Wilson today (Thursday) at 12:25 PM Eastern to discuss JAWS and the 2008 Hall of Fame ballot. I’m told I’ll be doing a second segment at …
I don’t love talking about steroids in baseball, but my services seem to be in demand when the big stories break. Lacking the good sense to run screaming in the other direction, I try to bring some rational discussion to an issue that generally provokes irrational responses. With the Mitchell Report set to hit the …
So much going on and so little time for me to write. After more than seven months of waiting, my wife and I finally closed on our Brooklyn apartment and will be moving this weekend, thus ending my nearly 13 years in the East Village. The timing isn’t exactly great, coming in the middle of …