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Please Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself

Jay Jaffe — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:42:50 +0000

Hola, amigos. It’s been awhile since I rapped at ya. I’ve been busy at Sports Illustrated, particularly so during Hall of Fame season, and the platform there has elevated me to the point that not only do I get to appear on MLB Network’s MLB Now occasionally, I get to rub elbows with none other ...

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Another Jerkass, Burnett

Jay Jaffe — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:07:00 +0000

Five PM on Friday is the start of the cocktail hour and the weekend for many. Not so for me during book season, and particularly not last week. At about 5:15, I got an email from the SI.com editor telling me that A.J. Burnett’s signing with the Yankees was imminent and asking if I could ...

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The Big Man Hits the Big Town

Jay Jaffe — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Less than 24 hours after filing the K-Rod signing story for SI.com, I awoke to an email from their editor asking me to prep a similar article on CC Sabathia given the reports that he was poised to sign with the Yankees — which was news to me at that early hour. By lunchtime I’d ...

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The Daily Double

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:30:00 +0000

Given that I woke up Monday morning with a fever of 100.8, I’ve gotten a lot done over the past 36 hours, including a pair of articles that went up on Baseball Prospectus today, with the second mirrored at SI.com. One piece is on the Hall of Fame voting, the other on the first big ...

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Move Over, Brian Cashman

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:48:00 +0000

At Baseball Prospectus, we’re running a GM for a Day series this winter, and the pieces are being mirrored on SI.com [link pending] and are thus free to non-subscribers. Taking a break from my bookwork, I’ve gotten back into the business of remaking the Yankees: Back before joining Baseball Prospectus, I spent a lengthy portion ...

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Mirror, Mirror

Jay Jaffe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:00 +0000

Aside from being busy, busy, busy with Baseball Prospectus 2009 work, I’ve done a couple of articles for BP that have been, or will be, mirrored over at SportsIllustrated.com. The first is on the AL MVP race, using BP’s Wins Above Replacement Player metric to evaluate the cases of the top-ranked candidates. The BP version ...

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Swish!

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:38:00 +0000

I’ve got an AL East Hot Stove preview up at Baseball Prospectus and mirrored at SI.com. In the preview I address four basic questions for each team. Here they are in the context of what I had to say about the Yankees: What Do They Have? The Yankees’ top asset is money, including more than ...

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Preview Redux

Jay Jaffe — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:52:00 +0000

The SportsIllustrated.com version of my NLCS Preview is up now, complete with, like, three grammatical corrections even. Talk about a value add. I actually had no idea how long the piece was, word-count-wise, but ESPN’s Rob Neyer counted it up in the service of giving me a nice shoutout in a blog entry($) today: 5,408 ...

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Rock: the Vote

Jay Jaffe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:17:00 +0000

Safely ensconced in our new Brooklyn apartment, I took a lengthy timeout or three from burrowing away at my winter work to plug the Hall of Fame candidacy of Tim Raines. The BBWAA ballot was announced on Monday, leading me to pen not one but two Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered posts as well as my SI.com ...

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