For the first six weeks of the baseball season, I was living in Dodger denial. But Alex Cora got my attention on Wednesday night. If you haven’t watched the Dodger shortstop’s epic at-bat from May 12, head over to MLB.com to do so. Cora battled Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt “Pubic Beard” Clement for 18 pitches, …
I haven’t had much luck on my trips to the ballpark the past two weeks. My trek to last Wendesday’s Mets-Giants game was cut short by a rain delay-induced exodus, though I did get to see an historic Mike Piazza home run before departing in the fifth. Tuesday night’s trip to Yankee Stadium was even …
As you may have noticed from the comments or the home page, things are a little different around here today. Blogger rolled out a new system as I was trying to post my Productive Outs follow-up late last night, and in a case of late-night early-adoption blues, I tried to see what would happen. The …
The day after I visited the Productive Outs issue, Larry Mahnken published his own debunking of this nouveau statistic at The Hardball Times. Mahnken did a good bit of research on the issue; most importantly, he highlighted the fact that ESPN’s Buster Olney didn’t even define the stat correctly, something which everybody else (myself included) …
First off, thanks to everyone who came by to read my recent Flat Earth Society post, and especially to the other bloggers out there who linked to and wrote about it. As far as I can tell, you all helped set a sitewide record for number of visitors on Wednesday. I’ve got a few points …
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The Moneyball Backlash is in full effect these days, with no shortage of announcers and writers jumping on the anti-sabermetric bandwagon. Locally, even esteemed Yankee announcer Jim Kaat spent a good time bashing Michael Lewis’ and the use of statistical analysis during the Yanks-Red Sox series, and he’s been at it a few times since …
I’ve got a couple of longer entries I’m dying to write up, one on the aforementioned Steinbrenner piece, the other on Productive Outs, but double-booking myself for work is really cramping my style. Not that I mind the money, but it’s limiting me to some quick hits here and there… The latest news on the …
Call me anything you want but don’t call me late for my Lunchtime Link. I know how to tell time, but if my lunch doesn’t coincide with yours, then just put this between two slices of bread tomorrow… It seems like such a distant time when the Yanks were stinking up the House That Ruth …
…some of which may be expanded upon in the near future: 1. Homer Bush, the futility infielder with quite probably the best name in baseball history, is back wearing Pinstripes. I’m so irrationally happy that I could go turn over a car, March Madness style. The good news comes at the expense of Travis Lee, …
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On Thursday I took Baseball Prospectus/Pinstriped Bible author Steven Goldman up on an offer to trek to the Brooklyn Public Library in search of photos to augment his forthcoming biography of Casey Stengel, Forging Genius (due in October from Brassey’s). Focused as the book is on Casey’s career before he made routine work of winning …