As I’ve watched the Arizona Diamondbacks play since the start of the season, I’ve been extremely impressed. They are definitely for real in the National League. While it may be early in the season, the team’s stats are superb. Entering the day, the Diamondbacks were baseball’s leader in both runs and least earned runs allowed. […]
Jeff Sackmann has an article up at The Hardball Times (full disclosure: I am a contributor to THT) called “The New Inefficiency.” In it, Jeff identifies risk acceptance as the current market inefficiency. Identifying and exploiting such inefficiencies is a key strategy employed by “small-market” teams to help reduce the effect of budgetary imbalances between […]
New York Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson offers some insights into his philosophy at the New York Times. Fascinating stuff:
Peterson says pitchers usually agree that the four biggest elements leading to success are movement, location, velocity and change of speed. The trick is in which order to rate them.
Peterson’s goal is to get his pitchers […]
My latest article is up at The Hardball Times. It’s about finding cheap relievers who can get the job done for a lot less than guys with maybe a little more name recognition. Just one more way a team without unlimited resources can help itself…
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First off, I’m way late in thanking Scott Goldblatt for pinch-hitting for me while I was cavorting about the central California coast during the World Series. Second, if you don’t know who Scott is, he’s an Olympic gold and silver medalist who also runs the excellent swimming blog Timed Finals. I confess, when it comes […]
Ian Thistle at Giving 110 Percent takes a look at Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon and what the future might hold for him. Despite Papelbon’s tremendous success in his first full season (0.92 ERA, 0.776 WHIP — are you kidding me?), he was a starter throughout the minor leagues and there is talk that […]
Red Hot Mama wants to know what’s wrong with the A’s. She’s coming at this from an unusual angle — it’s not the winning she has a problem with, it’s the apparent failure of the franchise to capture the imagination of Bay Area baseball fans:
There’s no doubt that the A’s have had a prodigious number […]
Purple Row takes a look at what the Colorado Rockies need to do this off-season to improve their chances in 2007. In addition to examining where the club is now and where it’s headed, Rox Girl also looks at the events of the past several seasons to figure out how the Rockies got into this […]
The playoff chase is exciting, but what if it’s not your team’s year? Jeff Sackmann has written an article at The Hardball Times about rebuilding an organization Florida Marlins style. Sounds great, but what does it mean? From the author:
The Marlins method is simple. Build around a couple of young (read: cheap) stars, sell your […]
Friday night at Petco Park, Chris Young came within two outs of tossing the San Diego Padres’ first ever no-hitter. I was at the game, seated three rows above the visitors’ bullpen, and had a great opportunity to watch the Pirates’ Tom Gorzelanny warm up before his start.
Gorzelanny began by simply playing catch with his […]
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