Standings, awards, and for no good reason (the playoffs are a complete crapshoot, anything can happen in a short series, etc), playoff predictions too.
AL East
Yankees
Rays (Wild Card)
Red Sox
Orioles
Jays
Brian Cashman and company have done a great job recognizing the...
Posted March 11, 2010 | 17:47:52 (EST)
Every year around this time, I exchange emails with a smart baseball friend -- we'll call him Rollie. The conversation starts with me asking if Rollie has seen an updated list of Over/Under Win totals for MLB teams. A few days later, he collects his list, emails it to me,...
Posted January 16, 2010 | 12:38:10 (EST)
Rob Neyer writes this morning about a relatively obscure player named Dallas McPherson, and the roster challenges that conspire to keep McPherson out of a major league job.
With the A's acquiring Kevin Kouzmanoff to play third base yesterday, Oakland likely no longer has room to carry McPherson, a...
Posted January 9, 2010 | 15:58:23 (EST)
Over at Yahoo, Matt Hinton has a solid, brief review of the Pete Carroll era at USC, and the implications of Carroll's pending move to the Seahawks to take over operational control of that team.
My review of Pete Carroll can be summed up in 10 words: He's the...
Posted January 6, 2010 | 16:38:11 (EST)
Later today, Tim Raines will learn that he's been snubbed by Hall of Fame voters for the third time. That Raines won't get anywhere close to the 75% of the vote required for induction is a damning statement on the cognitive abilities and biases of the Baseball Writers Association of...
Posted November 18, 2009 | 10:42:43 (EST)
Cross-posted at JonahKeri.com
As expected, the baseball cognoscenti has gone ga-ga for Tyler Kepner's New York Times piece on AL Cy Young winner Zack Greinke. And why not? Here's Greinke telling Kepner how his increased interest in advanced baseball statistics helped him run roughshod over hitters this season.
...Posted October 29, 2009 | 18:27:22 (EST)
When Pedro Martinez takes the mound to start tonight's Game 2 of the World Series for the Phillies, Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and many other observers will probably take the narrow view. They'll focus on Pedro's history of baiting Yankee fans, of Yankee fans' own chants of "Who's Your Daddy,"...
Posted October 27, 2009 | 13:52:26 (EST)
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In the weeks and months leading into this fall, ESPN did a great job building buzz around its "30 for 30" documentary series. The idea was...
Posted April 5, 2010 | 13:27:01 (EST)