The first Prospectus Hit List of the regular season went up on Tuesday at BP, and it’s new and improved as it begins its second year. I’ll save my breath and simply crib the intro (itself a new feature), which explains the upgrades: With one week of play in the books and the tempers of …
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Sunday, April 9 marks a special day in the history of FutilityInfielder.com. Namely, it’s been five years since the inception of this site, five years since I penned this memorial tribute to Willie Stargell, registered a domain name that had been rolling around in my head for a few weeks, started learning the basics of …
It’s Opening Day, and the Preseason Prospectus Hit List is up at BP. Due to some design and timing issues, some of the data used to determine the rankings wasn’t listed, so I will run it here while explaining the rankings in a bit more detail. For team comments, please see the original article. Please …
Remember me? I used to blog here once in awhile. But it’s been a crazy month, the maddest March I’ve ever experienced. Since we last spoke I’ve done the following: • delivered roughly 16,000 words of content for Fantasy Baseball Index‘s weekly mailings, not to mention two sets of updated depth charts and projections. Clicked …
I’m snowed under by deadlines for my fantasy work (how odd does that sound?) but wanted to call attention to a few Baseball Prospectus-related appearances I’ll be making in the next two weeks. On Thursday evening (3/23, 6:30 PM), I’ll be at the Barnes and Noble on 1805 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, joined by Steve …
Got back from Puerto Rico Tuesday evening, and it feels like I’ve been writing ever since. My epic account of the two games I witnessed is now up at Baseball Prospectus. While I can’t say I give San Juan itself particularly high marks, attending the games was a fantastic, eye-opening experience, and an intense one …
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I wish I could say I felt sadder when I heard the news that Kirby Puckett died on Monday after suffering a stroke over the weekend. A superstar whose career I enjoyed immensely, forced to retire before his time due to glaucoma, elected to the Hall of Fame despite his foreshortened career, then taken from …
Been meaning to get to this for a few days, but work and deadlines have been in my way… • I’ve had similar feelings of pride when holding my initial copies of The Juice and Mind Game, but nothing felt quite like seeing my name on the front page of Baseball Prospectus 2006 when it …
Things have been a little quiet around here for the past several days, but I’ve been as busy as a mop-up reliever at Coors Field. Not that you should read anything further into that analogy, because the news is actually quite exciting (for me at least). Fantasy Baseball Index has contracted me to do their …
Absent from my Sammy Sosa piece the other day was the question of whether the once-great slugger actually had anything left in the tank, playing-wise. Coming off of his Age 36 season, in which he missed sixty games, Sosa put up a .221/.295/.376 line that looks as though it were borrowed from Neifi Perez. As …