I always like to look through these things, to see what career marks a player can set for the season.
Chipper Jones keeps moving up. He’s 94 hits shy of 2500, 55 RBI and 52 runs short of 1500, and … Finish Reading
Month: March 2010
Other pitching possibilities redux
Okay, the Braves are going to carry seven relievers. (Why? Because, that’s why. But Bobby only really used four relievers last year anyway. Shut up!) Anyway, we know who five of them will be, barring injury: Wagner, Saito, … Finish Reading
[YAWNS]
Joseph Thurston Minor League Statistics & History – Baseball-Reference.com.
Brooks Conrad Minor League Statistics & History – Baseball-Reference.com.
I said it doesn’t matter who wins the competition between these two. That’s something of an exaggeration. I should say, … Finish Reading
Bringing up Heyward
Talking with Bill James: Part 2 | Cincinnati Sports News.
This is about a Reds prospect, but I think it’s germane, and I found it interesting:
… Finish ReadingA very high percentage of the greatest players ever got to the majors
The ineffable meaninglessness of spring training stats
Atlanta Braves Stats — Sortable Statistics | braves.com: Stats.
I’ve said this before, but not this year, so here goes… Spring training statistics are nearly worthless. First, the sample sizes are so small — the Melky leads the Braves … Finish Reading
So it’s my birthday again
Hopefully this year will be better than the last.
St. Patrick’s Day All McTeam:
C Brian McCann
1B Willie McCovey
2B Bid McPhee
3B John McGraw
SS Roy McMillan
OF Hal McRae
OF Willie McGee
OF Tommy McCarthy
UT Gil … Finish Reading
Review: Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend
Recommended. I sat on this for a couple of weeks, partly to let things settle after the bizarre review in the New York Times Book Review, partly out of laziness, partly because I like to think things through. This is a baseball biography — not just in the sense that it’s a biography of a baseball player, but in the sense that it focuses very heavily on Mays’ baseball career to the exclusion of other things. There’s some material about his early life; his life after his retirement is confined to a longish epilogue. This may be a disappointment to some; Mays’ baseball career is well known, but he’s been private since he stopped playing. On the other hand, his withdrawal from public life means that there really isn’t much to tell. It is, nonetheless, a fine and entertaining book, and worth reading.
From here on out, I’m going to talk about Willie Mays the player, with Willie Mays, the book, coming up as needed. So it’s not a standard book review; I don’t really want to write one.
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Rambling, dumb predictions
You’re supposed to make predictions, I guess. I really have no idea what’s going to happen, and neither does anyone else.
Well, the flipping Yankees are going to win, of course, they pretty much always do. The only thing that … Finish Reading
Other pitching possibilities
This is always a tough bit, and I’m sure I’ll miss somebody. Anyway, the best-known reliever I haven’t covered yet is certainly Scott Proctor, who had two good years of bullpen workhorse work with the Yankees and Dodgers (traded … Finish Reading
Jo-Jo Reyes
Jo-Jo Reyes Statistics and History – Baseball-Reference.com.
I am generally reluctant to state that any ballplayer’s problems are mental or emotional. In the case of Joseph Albert Reyes, I am here to say that the guy’s a froot loop. … Finish Reading