In the past week I’ve experienced as full a spectrum of emotions regarding the passages of life as anyone probably should in an eight-day span. None of this has much to do with baseball except tangentially, but I need to share it nonetheless as I count my own blessings. Last Saturday, I attended the wedding …
Apologies to those of you who believe this is a family blog which should be free of the kind of language used in the above headline. Silly, silly people. If you don’t know me after four years of this, you’re not paying attention. The above was the back-page headline I imagined a more gutsy tabloid …
The new Prospectus Hit List went up at Baseball Prospectus yesterday, with the St. Louis Cardinals barely edging the Chicago White Sox for the top spot. The Cards are the sole representative of the NL among the top nine teams, a byproduct of the completion of an interleague segment which saw the AL soundly whup …
ESPN Insider columnist Jerry Crasnick has been generating a good amount of buzz with his new book, License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent, a book that’s been described as “Moneyball with agents instead of a front office.” In the book, Crasnick provides a telling glimpse into the history …
With the wife out on a dinner date with a friend last night, I was dining bachelor-style, just me and the TV, and my frutti di mare pasta made three. Belching and scratching with impunity, I naturally flipped over to the Yankee game, where Randy Johnson was facing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Rays …
Like clockwork, the Prospectus Hit List is up at BP today, and it now features team logos for those of you who like them purdy pictures. This week finds the Orioles reclaiming the top spot from the Cardinals, with the White Sox not too far behind. The Yankees, thanks to their six-game winning streak, moved …
I had a blast at Yankee Stadium on Saturday in the company of fellow Baseball Prospectus author and Yankee fan Derek Jacques. The two of us were all smiles as we watched the Yanks spank the Cubs 8-1 for their fifth straight win. Facing a free-swinging lineup that featured Neifi Perez and Corey Patterson battting …
Just a quick note to wish all of the dads out there, including my own, a Happy Father’s Day. Like many of us, I came to baseball through my dad, who served up hittable whiffle-ball offerings in our backyard, told us tales of Reggie Jackson, and taught us to root for the Dodgers. Someday I …
In which five topics are combined into one epically cumbersome entry, commemorating one of baseball history’s more ridiculous trades… The past week has seen not one but two announcements of new ballpark’s for New York City’s teams. First NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg drafted a proposed Shea Stadium replacement (ETA: 2009) to pinch-hit for the defeated …
It’s that time of week again; the Prospectus Hit List is signed, sealed, and delivered. There’s a new bird ruling the roost this time around, with the St. Louis Cardinals taking over the top spot from the Baltimore Orioles, who dropped to fourth, and the Twins and White Sox in between those two. This was …