Joe Posnanski

We have a post coming up at some point here, but first I did want to post this comment from Kevin in case you missed it in the comment section because I think it makes a really good point: I respect your work very, very much, but your previous comment that if W.C. Heinz were 25 years old today he’d be writing a blog is wrong on about 13 different levels. Heinz would most likely be writing long narrative stories about the Iraq ... Read More

Start No. 7: Vs. California Anaheim Los Angeles Halos Innings: 6 2/3 Earned runs allowed: 5. Strikeouts: 3 Walks: 2 Homers: 1 (3-run shot) Decision: Loss (3-4) Number of pitches: 103 Number of strikes: 64 BABIP: .449 (13 for 29 -- yikes!) Season BABIP: .303 (43 for 142) Well, I didn’t get to see this messy game because I was driving back to Kansas City.* It’s probably just as well. Banny’s getting hit pretty hard these days -- Tuesday, it was Garret Anderson who was giving him the business -- ... Read More

I’ve looked at this a little bit, and I’ve become convinced that the 1975 Boston Red Sox had the best young outfield in baseball history. I mean this in a very specific way. There are a couple of other outfields that, as a unit, have put up better career numbers. There are certainly other young outfields that put up better numbers over one season. But here’s where I think the ‘75 Red Sox outfield is different -- I think all three guys ... Read More

OK, so I’m in that fun stage of Big Red Machine book research where I plainly am losing contact with the real world. It isn’t that I don’t know what’s going on in the world ... it’s flat that I don’t care. People will come up to me and say normal things like “Hey man,” or “You can’t park there” or “Dude you’ve got this giant hornet on your left ear,” and I will smile and nod mindlessly but I will be ... Read More

1. On W.C. Heinz: The classy and wonderful sportswriter writer Steve Wulf (who, among many other things, co-wrote Buck O’Neil’s autobiography “I Was Right On Time”) wrote in to confirm my theory that Heinz absolutely would be a prominent blogger in today’s new world. He wrote: “Heck, in (Heinz’s) day, with multiple editions and lots of friendly competition, newspapers were the blog equivalents.” This is really a great point, and one that just gets overlooked. There have always been blogs. What do we think ... Read More

We all know that I’m not much for linking here -- just because I’m too lazy to do the work -- but my comrade Aaron Barnhart has a terrific interview up with Bob Costas on the Bissinger screed and his own thoughts about blogs. It’s really good stuff. And, quickly, I have to tell you my Bob Costas story. I believe I put a version of this up on my last blog, but let’s do it again. So I was like 21 years ... Read More

Start No. 6: Vs. Texas Rangers Innings: 3 Earned runs allowed: 7. Strikeouts: 3 Walks: 2 Homers: 3 (Yikes!) Decision: Loss (3-3) Number of pitches: 90 Number of strikes: 52 BABIP: .538 (7 for 13) Season BABIP: .265 (30 for 113) Well, that was bad. There’s not really a whole lot else to say about it. Bill James says that when he was watching Royals games in the 1980s he could always tell in the first inning how good pitcher Danny Jackson would be that day. I don’t know if ... Read More