It’s free agent season, and as silly dollars get tossed at players, here are a few interesting links I’ve come across amid the avalanche of my writing projects. • My man Alex Belth has a fantastic historical recap of some milestones of the free agency era in his Sports Illustrated (SI.com) debut. No, they’re not …
Wednesday’s Education section of the Boston Globe featured an article on the Tufts University course, “The Analysis of Baseball: Statistics and Sabermetrics,” to which I paid a visit last spring after learning that my DIPS page had wound up on the course syllabus. In the article, by Peter Schworm, yours truly gets in a good …
I’ve managed to come up for air, for a couple of days at least, after meeting both of my deadlines for player comments for Baseball Prospectus 2006. After a long weekend devoted to NOT writing about baseball — my wife gets me for some quality time, including a celebration of our five-year anniversary together — …
And you should be too… • Caught between two batches of player comments, I partook in an email chat about the Dodgers with fellow bloggers and Dodger fans Rich Lederer, Rob McMillan and Jon Weisman, the latter of whom has the transcript of our little roundtable. Suffice it to say that the hiring of Giants …
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Back when I attended the Winter Meetings in New Orleans two years ago, I met a handful of Baseball Prospectus writers, nearly all of whom shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and used the term “book season” when describing their general maladies. Now I understand a bit better. I’m up to my rolled eyeballs in …
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Did I promise “more chat?” The title of this post was bestowed upon me by Baseball Prospectus’ Jason Grady, who clocked my BP Chat debut — scheduled to run two hours on Thursday — at three hours and 35 minutes. That’s believed to be a BP record, coming only a few weeks after Christina Kahrl …
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Just a reminder that my first Baseball Prospectus chat is slated for Thursday, November 3 at 1:00 PM Eastern. I’ve had a chance to preview the questions submitted by BP and FI readers and there are plenty of good ones, but I certainly would welcome more, so follow the link above if you have one …
It’s a horrible time to be a young, progressive GM or a statheaded fan of one. In a three-day span we’ve seen both the Dodgers’ Paul DePodesta and the Red Sox Theo Epstein leave their posts, the former fired by a thin-skinned, impatient owner, the latter unwilling to work with his poisonous viper of a …
The curtain came down on the 2005 season rather abruptly, with the White Sox sweeping the Astros 4-0 in the World Series and claiming their first World Championship since 1917. Despite the sweep, it was a riveting if not particularly well-played series, with the four games decided by a total of six runs, and three …
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If you’re a frequent reader of this space, you know that the buzzards had been circling Yankee pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre long before he made his departure official last week. Stottlemyre’s sacred-cowness within the Yankee organization was a drum I’ve been banging since last fall, and I certainly wasn’t the only one. The Yankees’ slow …