Today at Baseball Prospectus, the Jaffe WARP3 Score (JAWS) system takes on the 25 players on the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame ballot. This is the second time the “new VC” — consisting of living Hall of Fame members, Spink (writers) and Frick (broadcaster) award winners, and “old VC” members whose terms haven’t expired, 83 …
Via Tom Gorman and Rob McMillan comes this gem, an MP3 of Vin Scully calling the 9th inning of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game against the Chicago Cubs on September 9, 1965. In that final frame, Koufax strikes out Chris Krug, Joey Amalfitano and Harvey Kuenn, the latter his sixth K in a row and 14th …
Two of the fine bloggers at All-Baseball.com have decided to leave the fold and join forces. Rich Lederer of Rich’s Weekend Baseball Beat and Bryan Smith of Wait Til Next Year are merging their blogs into a new site called The Baseball Analysts (www.baseballanalysts.com). According to their press release, the site will be “devoted to …
It’s that time of the month again, as my Prospectus Triple Play (now bylined in a welcome improvement) is up over at Baseball Prospectus. Because I was hosting out-of-town guests over the weekend (for my bachelor party, which started with an hour of hacking at the Chelsea Piers batting cages), I had to prepare the …
It’s a bleak start to the day when the news of the death of one of your all-time favorites hits you like a sledgehammer before you’ve even sipped your morning coffee. Such was the case when I saw the ESPN front page today, where it’s reported that gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson died of a …
Reason #264 on “Why I Love New York City” is the way it can bring you full circle at any given moment. This entire week has been one of those times. The Venn diagram of New York City-based Mekons fans who’ve been published at Baseball Prospectus is a small one, which is why I found …
In the words of the Onion’s immortal Jim Anchower, “Hola amigos! I know it’s been a long time since I last rapped at ya…” • Late Wednesday night I was thumbing through this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated and came across a Tom Verducci piece about the Sammy Sosa situation that grabbed me: In mid-January, …
Visitors who come to this space expecting me to write about the Yankees may have noticed that I’ve had precious little to say about the pinstriped team lately. Part of it has been my absorption in several Baseball Prospectus-related projects, including taking up the Dodger beat for my Prospectus Triple Play — a task that’s …
It’s that time of the month again. My latest Prospectus Triple Play is up on BP today, and it’s free. As usual it’s a bit heavier on the Dodger analysis than on the others, but then again, they’ve been one of the busiest teams this offseason, and the statheads can’t get enough of Paul DePodesta. …
What is it with bloggers and fire? A little over a year ago, Christian Ruzich of All-Baseball.com lost his entire home in one of those California wildfires. A couple of nights ago the apartment of Larry Mahnken of The Hardball Times and Replacement Level Yankees Weblog burned down. Larry was unhurt, but he lost everything …