Joe Posnanski

Gold Glove (NL): Jimmy Rollins Gold Glove (AL): Orlando Cabrera Fielding Bible: Troy Tulowitzki. Well, I think most of us are just glad that Derek Jeter did not win his fourth straight Gold Glove. It was getting silly already. In 2007 -- for the third year in a row (and John Dewan has only been scoring players for three years) -- Jeter ranked LOWER THAN 30TH among shortstops on the Dewan Score. When you consider that there are only 30 teams in baseball, that does ... Read More

OK, more ATGs tomorrow, but I did have to share this little item with you. I get several billion emails ever day, at least half of them from various public relations people trying to get me to read their book, see their movie, pump their show, promote their client, eat their food, take their medication, mention their charity, etc. I don’t say this like I’m someone important -- most of them are addressed to “Dear Journalist or Trivial Person Who Happens To Be ... Read More

Gold Glove (NL): Orlando Hudson Gold Glove (AL): Placido Polanco Fielding Bible: Aaron Hill As Bill James has pointed out many times, the error is an utterly unique statistic in all of sports. It is the only statistic (at least the only one I can think of right now) that measures what might have been (or, in the opinion of the official scorer, should have been). There are other what you might call negative statistics in sports -- fumbles, turnovers, home runs allowed, goals against ... Read More

Gold Glove (NL): Derrek Lee. Gold Glove (AL): Kevin Youkilis. Fielding Bible: Albert Pujols. There’s a brilliant and loyal reader on here named Tim Lacy who sent me an email a few months ago suggesting that I was tragically underrating Derrek Lee as a fielder. Seconds after the Gold Gloves came out and Lee won, he emailed me again to ask me to please take a closer look at Lee. Well, first off, let’s take at closer look at Pujols, the Fielding Bible winner and my ... Read More

I’m generally opposed to doing political posts here (and thank you to the commenter who pointed out that these are “posts” and not “blogs.” You are correct, sir). However, I just have to see if I understand this whole Cheney impeachment news. It seems a few far flung Democrats -- led by regular poster and Cleveland homeboy Dennis Kucinich -- introduced a resolution to discuss impeachment of vice president Dick Cheney for “fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” and then leading ... Read More

My wife, author of the Internet’s most popular blog about our two children, has been on me for quite some time to make my blog posts shorter. This, of course, goes against the money back guarantee offered in the blog title. But she may have a point. When I look through the comments on my various posts (only after deleting the 7,473 spam comments from “people” like Annette Bening and Jennie Finch who are trying to get you to click on some ad ... Read More

Numerous people have written in over the last few months to ask me what I, as a “mainstream columnist” think about bloggers. I think, at this point, this is a silly question, sort of like asking someone, “What do you think about this cable television thing?” I mean, there are like 700 billion blogs on the Internet today. It’s sort of a fact of life. But I think I know what they mean: People in the mainstream media are, I’m told, supposed to ... Read More

I believe it was Shakespeare -- can’t remember if it was in Hamlet or MacBeth -- who wrote: “Jet lag sucks.” Ah the wisdom of those words, methinks. Today was just an absolutely wasted day spent (A) Being wide awake when I should have been sleeping; (B) Vaguely sleeping when I should have been awake; (C) Feeling sick enough to keep checking if an alien baby was about to emerge from my stomach. I did spend the moments in between trying to read ... Read More

I’m not exactly sure how you are supposed to handle jet lag, but I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong. -- In my blessed sports writing life I have been at some insane sporting events outside the United States. I was in Scotland when Jean van de Velde lost his mind at the British Open. That was crazy. I was in Sydney when a Wyoming dairy farmer’s kid beat the unbeatable Russian in a wrestling match. I was in an Australian Aborigine ... Read More

There’s a pretty popular fable being told these days about the New York Yankees, and it goes something like this: Once upon a time, around 1998 or so, the New York Yankees were a real team. They were not the team of mercenaries that they would become, no sir, they had been wisely put together with hard-working men, anti-stars with names like Scott Brosius and Luis Sojo, homegrown talents like Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada. This was the best ... Read More