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.
ARods Guilt Will Save Baseball Part 1
February 18, 2010 13 Comments
So I woke up Tuesday morning and I heard that Alex Rodriguez is going to face the New York Media. It was to be a show down for the ages. They ask all the questions that Peter Gammons forgot, and under there steely gaze A-Rod would wilt like he was batting in the 9th inning
Big League Wiffle Ball Hits It Out of the Park
May 19, 2009 2 Comments
When Nick Benas and Jared Verrillo of Big League Wiffle Ball were kids, they had no idea that the game they played on the cul de sac at the end of Bunker Hill Road could wind up being a career. Or maybe they did. “I remember thinking,” Benas says, “Someday I’ll do this for living.”
Put On Your Tin Foil Hat, PR Only Matters If….
April 30, 2009 1 Comment
Permit me to put on my tin foil hat for a minute. Nothing says conspiracy theorist, like tin foil on your head. Are the New York Yankees brass just like you and me, only richer? Do they make decisions based on the airwave mouth pieces that fill the New York A.M. dial? I know what
Romero Comes Through Big Time
April 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
OK, so the kids have cooled down and Adam Lind and it doesn’t look like the Blue Jays are going to bat .400 in 2009. That being said, the Blue Jays have kept it rolling through the second week of the season. They are headed into an off day leading the American league East with
What Would Jackie Think of the Guys Manning Second?
April 16, 2009 3 Comments
Every generation likes to believe that it is better than the one that came before it. Some would like to argue that in today’s game Willie Mays would be an average center fielder. Some would say that Babe Ruth who looked like a giant in his day would be nothing more than a bench player.
The Jays Come Out Of The Gate Flying!
April 14, 2009 1 Comment
With a country that is now focusing at a playoff run that includes three of the six Canadian squads trying to end Canada’s 16 years playoff drought, the Blue Jays are soaring taking their first two series of the 2009 season. Unfortunately nobody seems to be noticing. The Jays fans were their normal loud and
Curt Schilling To The Hall?
March 25, 2009 1 Comment
It all started in 1988, at the age of 21, Curt Schilling threw his first major league pitch debuting on the mound for the Baltimore Orioles after being called up in early September. For the rest of that season he managed to grind his way through four starts, totaling 14.2 innings and reaching his peak
The MLBPA Says No On Giving Back To The Community
March 22, 2009 7 Comments
The economy is in shambles, almost one in every ten people in some states are unemployed, people are losing their houses, and it would seem like a great time for those more fortunate to give back. Right? It was reported by ESPN today that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) filed a grievance against
A Case For Sabermetrics
March 12, 2009 2 Comments
So, in these posts the past few months I have given you all a brief definition of Sabermetrics and then given you a few key stats (VORP and RC), but now, as an aside, I felt it necessary to give you more of a why. We will do this by analyzing the 2008 year of
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