Not every place on your team’s roster is inhabited by players playing up to or beyond their perceived talent or capabilities. Sometimes you are stuck with a player whose best time has passed or has a nagging injury affecting stats or simply falls off a cliff. The question that comes with these players is “why?”.
Don’t Count The Brewers Out For 2012
October 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
Last winter, the Milwaukee Brewers took a look at the NL landscape, their team as constructed, and the impending free agency of their best player, and decided that this was the year to go for it. They made big trades for starting pitchers Zach Greinke and Shaun Marcum and made their best play at winning
Is Texas Rangers Josh Hamilton The Best Player in Baseball?
June 14, 2011 2 Comments
Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks are kings among sports fans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area right now. But I would argue that the primary beneficiary in the NBA Finals was actually American Airlines, since both arenas in the series are named after the carrier. However, it’s Josh Hamilton, left fielder for the Texas Rangers,
Sox John Danks Inspires Pitching Theory
June 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
You’ve heard of Ewing Theory? But what about John Danks Theory? Yes, the struggling Chicago White Sox starter has seen his career fall off a cliff in 2011. His season has been a train wreck of all train wrecks, but at least his name has given birth to a theorem. It’s not the “Mendoza Line”
WHIP: One of the Most Important Stats Not Discussed in Baseball
June 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
Run totals have been down throughout baseball this spring. One must not look any further than Dustin Pedroia in Boston. He has been hitting in the .240s for a while. When can you remember that happening with him this late in the season? Walks and hits per innings pitched is an essential tool for the
Seattle Mariners Win Sixth Series In A Row
June 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Seattle Mariners won their sixth series in a row today for the first time since 2001, beating Tampa Bay 9-6 in a wild affair in front of 28,947 fans who were treated to a dandy of a game as the hometown boys proved once again they are for real in 2011! Lost in the
Buster Posey Releases Statement on Collision, Giants on Sabean
June 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
Biggie vs. 2pac, Lindsay Lohan vs. Hillary Duff, Bill O’Reilly vs. Keith Olbermann- verbal feuds are fun. And the biggest one of the 2011 MLB season is in full swing. The wheelhouse of this feud began with the Florida Marlins Scott Cousins putting a big, but legal hit on San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey.
Should the Mets Keep Jose Reyes?
May 26, 2011 2 Comments
It’s always hard to improve an ailing baseball team by trading away your best players. It almost defies logic really. It doesn’t take a lot of management skills to ship out a club’s top player. What does take skill though is to get rid of unproductive and unwanted players while building a contender around your
When Judging Players, Join The 21st Century
December 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
You can calculate batting average. You can recognize when a player commits an error. You know all about Runs Batted In or, as they’re more commonly referred to, “RBIs”. In the old days, that was about all you needed to know to hold a conversation about the best and worst players in the major leagues.
Support The Jamie Moyer Foundation
July 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
Today I would like to turn the focus over to something a tad bit more important than baseball created by one of the games best. The HallofVeryGood.com has posted an interview with Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer and information on the Moyer Foundation, a public, 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization founded in 2000 by MLB, Jamie
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