Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 56 Comments »
March 18, 2010
Players of the Day: Ryan Howard, Philadelphia; Albert Pujols, St. Louis.
JUPITER, Fla. — Tony La Russa was on his cell phone Tuesday morning as he walked off the field and toward reporters for his daily give-and-give-more with the media. He seemed particularly engaged with the phone call. Reporters waited patiently until he hung up.
“Huh,” La Russa said with surprise in his voice. “That was Charlie Manual.”
“Really?” a reporter asked.
“No,” La Russa said with comic disgust in his voice. “Not REALLY.”
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Posted: March 15th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 57 Comments »
March 15, 2010
Player of the Day: Johnny Damon, Detroit
I’m going to admit to you, right up front, that this doesn’t have a lot to do with Johnny Damon. But I am falling behind on my ill-advised Player of the Day plan, and so this will have to count. It was while watching Johnny Damon hit a home run in Lakeland that I came up with this idea to really break down the 2009 season. What follows is really and truly a technological miracle … and by that I mean that it is miraculous that someone as inept as I am was able to figure out a way to do this.*
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Posted: March 13th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 70 Comments »
Before we get into Pedro Feliz — and I will admit you have to work through a few things before we get to him — I have a question for you: Let’s say you’re a manager of a Major League baseball team in 2009. And before the game, a genie says to you that you can have one of two things happen. (1) Your team could have more hits than the opponent or (2) Your team could hit three or more home runs.
Which of those two options would give you a better chance of winning?
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Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 104 Comments »
I expect that this is one of the few places on the Internet — or really anywhere else — where Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire is proudly celebrated. And because of that, this has become a good spot for Gardy doubters and Gardy haters — and, apparently, they are legion — to congregate. That’s cool, of course. But I do find it striking that whenever I write even two consecutive nice words about Ron Gardenhire, I am guaranteed to hear from people who want the opportunity to bash.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 39 Comments »
March 10, 2010
Player of the Day: Jose Reyes, shortstop, NY Mets
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Posted: March 9th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 38 Comments »
March 9, 2010
Player of the Day: Joe Nathan, pitcher, Minnesota.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 39 Comments »
March 8, 2010
Player of the Day: Aroldis Chapman, pitcher, Cincinnati.
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Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 61 Comments »
So, we’re going to start something here, something that I fully intend to regret, something I will call The Player of the Day. The idea is to write about an interesting player from a different team every day leading up to Opening Day. My hope is that the player will somehow reflect what I think about the team. You may ask: Why would anyone start a lunatic project like this?
And I would answer: Because it’s there.
We start with Joakim Soria, reliever deluxe for the Kansas City Royals.
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Posted: March 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 52 Comments »
Now, this was not supposed to be a post about the Rule 5 Draft — the REAL post is coming soon — but I got caught up looking at the history of Rule 5 and got carried away and ended up with this thing. I was going to try and shorten it, break it up, insert it in the real post as a Pozterisk … but frankly that feels like work. And this blog is not supposed to feel like work. So instead, I will just dump this on you — a rambling history of the Rule 5 and bonus babies. I think it’s fair to say I have very little control of this blog.
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Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 54 Comments »
The following is just a whole lot of musing about pitches and hitting and stuff. There’s no order, no rhyme, no reason and no guaranteeing that ANY OF IT makes sense. We’re just talking a little ball. Read at your own discretion.
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