Cubs Regression To The Mean 64 Comments
The Cubs have been an enigmatic team this year in a few ways. I was looking earlier for reasons to be optimistic about the Cubs, and I found some; however, the Cubs have been equally ...
Chance to win $200 gift card at The Outside Corner on Bloguin 4 Comments
We're glad that we're among your go to destinations for Cubs blogs. Despite my occasional attempts to cover MLB more thoroughly, it ends up failing. Since we don't cover ...
Assume the Position: MLB Starting Pitchers 45 Comments
For pitching, I'm going to break it down into more easily-digestible bunches. For this version, I'm going to look at the Cubs in 2012 and then the people most likely to make ...
Interview with Tom Tango (aka tangotiger) 4 Comments
As most of you probably know, Tom Tango now exclusively consults with the Cubs. This is incredible news: Tom Tango, also knows as tangotiger, is one of the greatest baseball minds in ...
US Roster for World Baseball Classic 18 Comments
The rosters for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) were announced yesterday's and here is the US roster.
Player
Pos.
Team
Mark Teixeira
1B
Yankees
Brandon Phillips
2B
Reds
Jimmy ...
How good is Anthony Rizzo? 118 Comments
Not long after the Cubs hired Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer, the two traded Andrew Cashner and Kyung-Min Na to the Padres for Anthony Rizzo and Zach Cates. Rizzo had just completed his ...
Daily Facepalm – 1.13.12 20 Comments
Good teammate
To the surprise of no rational Cubs fan here or elsewhere, Alfonso Soriano is a good teammate.
During his time in Chicago, Theo Epstein has come to realize what a tremendous ...
Hall of Stats 4 Comments
Glad someone did it. I like it better than the real thing. They inducted 13 from this ballot.
I created the Hall of Stats so we wouldn’t be ignored. And today, the Hall of Stats ...
Jeff Idelson, President of the Baseball Hall of Fame, full of shit 1 Comment
From Joe Posnanski:
“Let’s put it this way,” Idelson says. “Every year I root for someone to be elected. I’m not alone in Cooperstown in that wish. By the same token, I was ...
Daily Facepalm – 1.10.13 26 Comments
Hall of Fame
Nobody was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. It wasn’t that surprising based on Repoz’s collection of the ballots published online, but still frustrating.
The ...
Colin Wyers on the Hall of Fame electing no one 36 Comments
Colin Wyers wrote an excellent article for Baseball Prospectus in response to the BBWAA not electing a single player on a ballot that had more than 10 qualified Hall of Famers.
the ...
Poll: DH or 8-man lineup 29 Comments
While Myles and many other NL fans are opposed to the DH coming to the National League, I'm fairly certain its arrival is inevitable. I'm also fairly sure it will happen soon ...
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 ...
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 ...
Copying what other sucky team’s bloggers do 16 Comments
Having difficulty thinking of something to write about, I decided to look to other bloggers for teams that suck for ideas. The first idea came from a Royals blog that was comparing ...
Copying what other sucky team’s bloggers do 32 Comments
I was trying to think of something to write about. I had an idea, looked into it, lost interest and left a brief comment summarizing what I found. I've done this many times over ...
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 ...
Will a salary cap come to baseball because of these new billion dollar tv contracts? No Comments
Over the last couple years the Angels, Rangers, Astros and Padres have each signed billion dollar contracts with a network. The Dodgers appear to be on the verge of signing the most ...
Talking Cubs/Mets on the Met Musings Podcast 4 Comments