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 9th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 40 Comments »
March 9, 2010
Player of the Day: Joe Nathan, pitcher, Minnesota.
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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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Posted: February 16th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 94 Comments »
So, I have been playing around with a new baseball prediction system. I would like to tell you that it is complicated … and it is extremely complicated. But I don’t want to confuse the word “complicated” with “stupid.” I suspect my system is both.* It’s versatile that way.
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Posted: January 4th, 2010 | Filed under: Baseball | 105 Comments »
Well, my Hall of Fame ballot should be up at Sports Illustrated Tuesday … just in case you want to read 5,000 more words about the Hall of Fame from me.
In the meantime … this project was a lot of fun. I don’t know if it MEANS anything, but it was fun. I was doing my usual investigative mayhem to get a better feel for the Hall of Fame ballot, and I thought it would be worthwhile to come up with the best players in baseball since, say, 1970. I don’t mean the overall best players — I mean, who were the best players in baseball at any given time.
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Posted: December 12th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 83 Comments »
You know, I find myself surprisingly sad about the Kansas City Royals signing Jason Kendall to a two-year $6 million deal — much sadder than I should be, really. I’m not sad because it is such a bad move. It is a bad move, but the Royals have made numerous moves in the last year or so that were worse — by worse, I mean “more damaging.”
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Posted: December 9th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 45 Comments »
Wezen-Ball has a really fun piece up now about the highest paid players in baseball since 1979 — when Nolan Ryan became the first million-dollar player. I highly recommend it so that you can see that Mark Davis was, for a time, the highest paid player in the game. That was back when the Kansas City Royals were trying to buy a World Series. What a world it was.
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Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 74 Comments »
OK, I have this idea based on Albert Pujols winning his third MVP in five years … it starts with this: I think Pujols at age 29 is a Hall of Famer right now. To me, it’s done. True, you have to play 10 years in the big leagues to be eligible for the Hall, so technically he is not yet eligible. But my point is not that old “he retires tomorrow” argument. No, my point is that in my eyes that no matter what he does on the field from this point on, the rest of his career, he has already locked up Hall of Fame status.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 87 Comments »
So, it looks like I spent another sports year feeling pre-agitated about things that did not come especially close to happening. Zack Greinke won the Cy Young Award … he won it rather easily. There was no sudden and overpowering push to get Jack Morris into the Hall of Fame while Bert Blyleven writhes in baseball limbo. The Cleveland Browns did not hire Eric Mangini.
OK, well, wait, sometimes dread does come to life.
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Posted: November 10th, 2009 | Filed under: Baseball | 90 Comments »
There is little doubt that you are expecting me to follow up that headline by writing about Derek Jeter. But … no.*
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