Herrmann Hoping For Big League Chance
Right-handed reliever Frank Herrmann has done what so few in professional baseball do, which is to go from being an undrafted free agent signing to becoming a legitimate big league pitching option....
View ArticleA Humorous Look at Recent Baseball News
The Indians were expecting close to 35,000 fans to attend Sunday’s game against the Nationals, the team’s highest attendance since Opening Day. I think it’s great that so many Indians fans are...
View ArticleNidiffer Inks Deal With Astros
Good things do come to those who wait. The 2010 Major League Baseball draft came and went. Three days and 50 rounds passed. Twelve Wildcats from the University of Kentucky heard their names called.Â...
View ArticleOpportunity Costs Will Dictate Modest Harper Bonus
Nationals fans, management and players are all seeing just what a great and phenomenal talent can do to transform a team. Â Strasburg left everyone breathless for more, but although some see Bryce...
View ArticleHappy Aroldis Chapman Day
Since this past weekend, I started a post that is currently approaching 8,000 words. Â I’m not quite sure what to do about it because it takes a rare breed to want to read that much about what I was...
View ArticleRanking the Goliaths and Davids
The 2010 playoffs begin tomorrow and at first glance you would assume that the Tampa Bay Rays were carrying the banner of underdog once again. That would be wrong. The most under-privileged team teeing...
View ArticleTo Magglio or not to Magglio… That is the question…
I’ll warn you right off the bat that this article will be slightly biased. Magglio Ordonez is my Tiger, has been since he played for the ChiSox (I had a little party in my head when he signed with...
View ArticleThe 2010 Pennant Winners (How They Came to Be)
Using Bill James’s Win Shares, I’ll take a look at how each World Series team was formed. The information can be found at my site The Baseball Gauge. This page compares all of the 2010 teams. The...
View ArticleMaximum Feasible Dunn
And all through the house not a creature was stirring, no baseball news from even a mouse. Â Black Friday shoppers are out in force, but baseball has only the near silent whisperings of General...
View ArticleBeltre Signs With The Rangers… And The Red Sox Keep Getting Richer
I posted this article about Adrian Beltre’s new contract with Texas on my website a few days ago… I am re-publishing a portion of that article here today: As the 2010 season unfolded, the Red Sox...
View ArticleClearing The Bases: Outfielders
Outfield seems to be a jumbled mess of players once you get thru the first dozen or so. This position is nowhere near as deep as it once was, and even most of the top ten players come with question...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Unless you have been living in a cave all week you have undoubtedly heard about the Yankees Jorge Posada’s decision to pull himself out of the lineup and refuse to play last Saturday versus Boston. Â...
View ArticleBrust named NYCBL Coach of the Year
Four years in the making Dave Brust got his just due. The New York Collegiate Baseball League announced its post-season awards, and the Webster skipper nabbed the top honor. Brust’s Webster nine set...
View ArticleThe Lighting of the Hot Stove
Perhaps the Hot Stove season does not commence until after the World Series. Or maybe it adds fuel to the fire. Either way there are instructive failures from last year to consider. There were Carl...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Well the 2011 season has successfully come to an end with an unlikely champion, the St. Louis Cardinals. Who saw that coming? Manager Tony LaRussa goes out on top as he retired a champion, have...
View ArticleBen Cherington Needs To Pick It Up
It has barely been two months since Ben Cherington took over as Red Sox GM, but to date his work has been extremely underwhelming. This impression has been in place ever since the prolonged and...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
Major League Baseball teams for the most part use the first third of the season (April, May) to evaluate their team, the middle third (June, July) to make acquisitions to help the team, and the last...
View ArticleJim Neidlinger: No Regrets
The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have had a string of legendary pitchers during their existence, earning accolades, World Series victories, and Hall of Fame enshrinements. Many young hurlers have...
View ArticleClearing The Bases
We can’t have a surprise column without a disappointment column now can we? Earlier this week we talked about our Top 9 pleasant surprises, and now we will visit the opposite end of the spectrum....
View ArticleThe 1983 California Angels
The Angels had captured 2 pennants in the last four seasons, and they were highly optimistic about their chances in 1983 after retaining most of the core players from their 1982 division winning squad....
View ArticleTim Roberson: Proving the Depth of the Boston Red Sox’s Minor League System
The Boston Red Sox have emphasized the cultivation of their farm system over the past two decades, which has led to the maturation of a number of valuable major league players. In recent years, the...
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