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What to Expect in the AL Central
The 2011 baseball season is almost one quarter finished, and the AL Central standings still look upside down. The Twins have won six of the past nine division titles, ran away with last year’s crown,...
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Revisiting Rotations
This is my first post as a member of the baseball bloggers alliance. If you like my work (or even if you don’t, I suppose), please swing by the alliance’s page and peruse some of my peers’ work. Back...
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Bumgarnering Around with Pitching Stats
Here’s an email exchange with Ryan Marston, who shares none of my sports allegiances, but does share my passion for objective sports analysis, and even some of my DNA (we’re first cousins). The initial...
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My Favorite Players, By Position
I spill a lot of virtual ink in this space talking about the best, most valuable, and/or greatest players in baseball. As we enter the dog days of the baseball blogging season, I thought I’d take a...
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Final Ballot: Stan the Man
The inscription on Red Schoendienst’s Hall of Fame plaque begins “roommate Stan Musial credited him with ‘greatest pair of hands I’ve ever seen’”. This has nothing at all to do with the Baseball...
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2012 Baseball Preview – AL Central
I’ve covered the NL West, AL West, and NL Central in my six-part 2012 baseball preview. Now it’s on to the most predictable division, where the only horse in 2011′s one-horse race made the division’s...
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True Season Score Leaderboard
Most starting pitchers have made six starts at this point in the season, with a few aces having made seven. While that’s not enough of a sample to draw meaningful conclusions from many statistics, one...
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2012 Quarter Season All-Stars
Most teams have played 42 or 43 games at this point in the season, enough to at least begin to evaluate player seasons. We know that Josh Hamilton’s excellence is more than a streak. Albert Pujols’s...
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Goose Gossage Award Ballot, 2012 Edition
Today marks the midpoint in the series I must post to avoid banishment from the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (you all know how I hate ranking baseball players). Today, it’s the Richard M. Gossage Award,...
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Stan Musial Award Ballot, 2012 Edition
This is it. Night five of my five-night series of Baseball Bloggers Alliance-demanded postseason award ballots. I’ve covered managers, rookies, relievers, and pitchers. Now let’s take a look at the...
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An Early All-Star Ballot
In the past, I’ve used this space to name my quarter-season All-Star team. With the actual All-Star ballot now out, I’m tempted to post both a novelty piece about the players enjoying unexpected...
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wOBA Primer, With a Bonus
Here’s one I wrote for USA Today Sports Weekly, which is partnering with High Heat Stats for a column focusing on a different advanced statistic every week: In 2012, Ben Zobrist batted .270, but was...
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Franchise Player Mock Draft
I understand ESPN presented its annual franchise player mock draft today. I’d link to it, but I want to make my picks in a similar draft before I see who their experts picked. When I’m done, I’ll check...
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Remaining Award Picks
I’ve heard tell that the Baseball Bloggers Alliance may come out of hibernation to vote on our annual awards. Having already covered my MVP (or “Stan Musial”) and Cy Young (“Walter Johnson”) picks, I...
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A 2014 All-Star Ballot
The All-Star Game is less than a month away. Does that mean it’s time for an official ballot? Probably not, but it’s what I’ve been thinking about lately, so sit there and read my thoughts. It’s easier...
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Celebrating Fresh Blood
The Red Sox and Rangers are not going to the playoffs this year. The Yankees and Cardinals are barely above .500 and not guaranteed to play in October. The Braves are in a free fall, watching their...
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Playoff Pre(Inter?)View 2014
Some might argue that the playoffs start tonight, as the previous two nights’ contests are more akin to qualifier games than playoff series. Major League Baseball disagrees, and there was certainly a...
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2014 Goose Gossage Awards
I am still as honored to be allowed to vote in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance’s end-of-season awards as I am frustrated and embarrassed to have no time to write. Below are my ballots for each league’s...
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World Series Predictions
Every October, I write about how unpredictable the playoffs are and then make playoff predictions. As a guy with a baseball blog, I feel like I’m shirking some duty if I don’t tell everyone who will...
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Whatever Happened to the Great AL Shortstop?
It looks like the Golden Era for shortstops is over. From 1984 to 1996, there was little debate about who should start the All-Star Game at shortstop for the American League. Cal Ripken, Jr. was...
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