Friday’s Baseball Prospectus chat was one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve done in recent memory, the happy coincidence of a fun time of year, a good batch of questions, and a lack of the technical gremlins which have created a distraction in every one of my chats in recent memory. A few anwers covering …
I’m mad as hell about the Yankees’ ticket situation, and I’m not gonna take it any more. Instead of being offered our $25 seats, or even anything between the bases, we had been assigned $85 seats in section 107… …right behind the right field foul pole. Obstructed view, at more than triple the price of …
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In addition to flattering me with some choice casting, El Lefty Malo (a/k/a Alex Lash, a mentor from way back) raised a provocative question in this post last week: is sabermetrics anti-labor? One thing about our sabremetric era that doesn’t get discussed much: it’s inherently anti-labor. “Efficiencies” is not a word workers want to hear …
A fistful of links from the past couple of weeks, none of them having to do with steroids or A-Rod (we’ll get those in another post. Maybe.)… • Baseball Prospectus 2009 is shipping from Amazon.com and on the bookshelves of your local retailer. I’ve had a copy in hand since last Friday, and it’s as chockfull …
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It’s a dark day for baseball, the revelation that Alex Rodriguez was among the 104 players who failed a drug test in 2003. Never mind the fact that the test was supposedly anonymous and carried no punitive consequences but was being conducted as a survey to establish whether Major League Baseball should implement more stringent …
Five PM on Friday is the start of the cocktail hour and the weekend for many. Not so for me during book season, and particularly not last week. At about 5:15, I got an email from the SI.com editor telling me that A.J. Burnett’s signing with the Yankees was imminent and asking if I could …
The Hardball Times’ Dave Studeman took issue with my take on CC Sabathia’s opt-out clause: Jay Jaffe responds to Keith Law’s opinion about opt-out clauses, saying that he doesn’t think they’re a bad idea. Let’s be clear about this: opt-out clauses increase the cost of a contract to a club. Depending on the player, they …
Less than 24 hours after filing the K-Rod signing story for SI.com, I awoke to an email from their editor asking me to prep a similar article on CC Sabathia given the reports that he was poised to sign with the Yankees — which was news to me at that early hour. By lunchtime I’d …
At Baseball Prospectus, we’re running a GM for a Day series this winter, and the pieces are being mirrored on SI.com [link pending] and are thus free to non-subscribers. Taking a break from my bookwork, I’ve gotten back into the business of remaking the Yankees: Back before joining Baseball Prospectus, I spent a lengthy portion …
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but my pals at Bronx Banter recently moved into some upscale new digs at Sportschannel New York’s website, SNY.tv. Congrats to them on the move and the recent expansion of their blogging staff. As part of their arrangement, BB and SNY are collaborating with some experimental video blogging …