Clearing the Bases — Avalanche Edition

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 …

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Clearing the Bases — No, Really, I’m Busy Edition

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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Clearing the Bases — Book Season Edition

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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Clearing the Bases — 108 Days Until Pitchers and Catchers edition

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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Pell Mel (Well, Well, Well)

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 …

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