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Evaluating WAAS, WAR As HOF Measuring Sticks
The results of this year’s Hall of Fame voting and with them a renewed debate about what actually makes a worthy candidate. This debate has been around for decades, before the question of steroids arose, and has more to do with voting on “very good players,” you know, the guys who are at the top of the league but not necessarily among the best ever. A wide range of opinions exists as to who should be enshrined in the hall. I personally am in the camp that says that only the best of
On Saturday, Kevin Millwood spun a gem against the Colorado Rockies, with a 2-hit complete game shutout in hitter-friendly Coors Field. The 16-year Mariners’ veteran seems like he has found his old self and his trade value will not get any higher.
The Mariners are in a rebuilding year and won’t be...
I know the Minnesota Twins don’t exactly inspire confidence in fantasy circle as baseball’s worse team. Even fantasy staples Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau aren’t performing at the levels you’d expect. The only player to truly deliver this year has been Josh Willingham.
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Baseball began early this year, in Japan on March 28tth. It's only May and many of the premier teams, the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Tampa Bay and others are struggling because of injuries. The New York Yankees hit hard with the loss of baseball's greatest closer, Mariano Rivera, out for the rest of...
The ever-increasing numbers of players on the DL means that managers need to be on the waiver wire as often as possible. Staying active is instrumental in keeping an edge in your league and with names of hitters like Matt Kemp, Evan Longoria, Pablo Sandoval, Kevin Youkilis, Juan Uribe, and Mark...
I played baseball growing up, all throughout high school, and eventually even college. Until my junior year, I was the speedy Center Field/Leadoff Hitter type. The first day of practice my junior year, my coach decided to turn me into a submarining closer, because we did not have a closer. I got...
Have you ever heard the expression, "Fan Cost Index?" It's a marketing term used to determine the average cost for a family of four to attend a Major League Baseball game. Every pro sports league hires some marketing company to evaluate cost's in every city that has a big league franchise. The...
So, when you get a plethora of injured outfielders, a pitcher who would rather golf than pitch sometimes and a rookie who is threatening to take over third base, what do you have? Well, the Boston Red Sox of course. 2012 has started out the same way for Boston that 2011 did, slow. The expectations...
Last week when the perjury trial of baseball great Roger Clemens resumed the federal judge hearing the case sternly chided prosecutors and defense attorney's for going so "slowly" that they were "boring" jurors. U.S.District Judge Reggie B.Walton told the lawyers gesturing toward the jury box, "...
We are a full month into the season. On some assorted players we still have too small a sample size to make any concrete conclusions, we can certainly begin to assess our teams and see how we match up. Just because you are middle of the pack or worse in your league(s) doesn’t mean it is time to...
Fantasy Furnace is a contributing writer to Daily Shootout. Follow them on Twitter @FantasyFurnace If you like this, please stop by and let them know! Entering week 7, we can’t help but witness the injuries beginning to mount among starters like Danny Duffy, Cory Luebke, Daniel...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bryce Harper hit his first big league home run and Chad Tracy and Xavier Nady each connected in the eighth inning, leading the Washington Nationals to an 8-5 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday night. Harper became the youngest major leaguer to homer since 1998, going...
While Milwaukee Catcher Jonathan Lucroy doesn’t have as many at bats as some of the elite catchers in the league, his ownership in fantasy leagues (less than 30.0 percent of Yahoo! and 15.0 percent of ESPN leagues) is a bit puzzling. . After all, he is hitting .323, which puts him ahead of all...
The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 8-5 on a rainy night at Camden Yards. In the beginning of spring training, once Andy Pettitte announced he was coming back, everyone was saying the Yankees have seven starters for five positions. Well, the old saying is you can never...
After the first thirty-one games of the 2012 season, the St Louis Cardinals are even hotter than they were over the final thirty-one games of the 2011 season, when they were by far, the hottest team on the planet. But are they merely “hot” or are they just incredibly good? At what...
With the Mariners in town to play the Yankees this weekend there are a ton of common stories to talk about. You could remember the rivalry of the late-90s or perhaps the 2001 Seattle team that won 116 games but was extinguished by the Yanks in the ALCS. The most obvious storyline seems to be the...
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May 23
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1989
On May 23, 1989, Bo Jackson of the Kansas City Royals hits a ...
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1978
On May 23, 1978, Oakland A’s manager Bobby Winkles quits h ...
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1970
On May 23, 1970, the San Francisco Giants fire manager Clyde ...
