Some minor MLB rule changes for next year 19 Comments
This ESPN blurb lists three relatively minor rule changes for the upcoming season. Here's the highlights
Coaches and managers are now allowed to bring an interpreter when conferencing ...
Milton Bradley charged with 13 misdemeanors No Comments
All around nice guy Milton Bradley has been busy lately. Bradley denies the charges against him, brought by his soon-to-be ex-wife (the two are in the middle of a contentious divorce, ...
The worst first ballot hall of famers vs. the best ones not make a 2nd ballot No Comments
Good stuff.
SP Sandy Koufax 50
C Johnny Bench 72
1B Willie McCovey 61
2B Jackie Robinson 59
3B Paul Molitor 73
SS Ozzie Smith 73
LF Lou Brock 43
CF Kirby Puckett 48
RF ...
Derrek Lee: The Joe DiMaggio of Doubles 8 Comments
While fiddling around in Baseball-Reference (my Christmas gift to myself was a subscription to Play Index), I came across something very curious:
Derrek Lee is the all-time record ...
Hall of Fame ballot updates on BTF No Comments
Repoz has a running total for Hall of Fame ballots. So far, nobody would get in. Biggio and Bagwell are close. Only about 13% of the total ballots from last year so a long way to go ...
Matt Garza says he’s ready 1 Comment
Matt Garza says he's ready to pitch and guarantees he'll be ready on opening day.
Garza said he has had no problems since he started throwing earlier this month.
"If spring ...
“This, man, I was just jerking myself off.” An FJM retrospective 8 Comments
The Classical has put together an extended interview with Ken Tremendous, dak, and Junior chronicling the history of Fire Joe Morgan.
My wife and I took a trip, I think, to Buenos ...
Walking someone when it doesn’t matter (as much) 2 Comments
For each pitcher from 1993-2011 with at least 5,000 Batters Faced, I've added up the average growth in run expectancy per NIBB. The average increase in RE for an NIBB over that ...
Dave Cameron on the Edwin Jackson signing 1 Comment
Dave Cameron wrote a bit about the Cubs signing of Edwin Jackson. Here's part of it.
But we should note that Edwin Jackson makes them better, and this price for Edwin Jackson is ...
Most outstanding career 2 Comments
Tango set up a poll for the most outstanding career if you'e interested.
ASU was the problem, not the Cubs No Comments
From Brett:
According to KTAR in Arizona, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith had some interesting thoughts on the disintegration of the ASU/Cubs plan to share the new facilities being built for ...
Javier Baez injures thumb, probably done in the AFL No Comments
Javier Baez injured his thumb on Saturday and is likely not to play again this season.
CHICAGO — Shortstop Javier Baez, the Cubs' top prospect, may be done for the Arizona ...
Mark Shapiro: one win in free agency is $9 million 6 Comments
This is a fantastic Q&A with Mark Shapiro who was the Indians GM for 9 years and is now their team president. Go read it all. Great stuff.
I think more people will come. But the ...
Arbitration salary projections for the Cubs No Comments
MLBTR has posted their salary projections for the Cubs arbittation eligible players. The projections are done by Matt Swartz who did a bunch of math and came up with a system to estimate ...
Cubs prospect all-stars No Comments
Milb.com is doing a series that lists the best prospect at each position. The Cubs were up yesterday. It's a pretty good list, but this was a head-scratcher.
Utility — Anthony ...
Muskat: Top prospect Baez develops in Arizona Fall League 1 Comment
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — At 19, Javier Baez is the second-youngest player in the Arizona Fall League, and he is making a huge jump, competing against players who have been in Double-A ...
WAR conversion 4 Comments
Bryan Crosnick calculated the exact way in which we'd put each version of WAR (fWAR, rWAR and WARP) on the same scale. These all use different replacement levels so thanks to his ...
Another new forum No Comments
When the site switched to a responsive theme one of the unintended consequences was that the forum we'd been using most of 2012 was not going to work without significant modifications. ...
DBacks Looking for SS, Veteran SP, 3B 6 Comments
Awhile back we were kicking around trade ideas for Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks. GM Kevin Towers' postseason press conference confirms much of our speculation:
Towers identified ...
