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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
Ryan Braun edged out Matt Kemp for National League MVP honors last fall, shortly before a positive drug test result leaked on Dec. 10 and smeared the reputation of the Milwaukee Brewers’ slugging star. The BBWAA has already said that Braun will retain his award — but now Kemp is saying he doesn’t...
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI - The St. Louis Cardinals announced the signing of two-time All-American quarterback Sammy Baugh on this date in 1938. And, no, not the football Cardinals, they were still in Chicago at the time, the baseball Cardinals.
Baugh had just graduated from Texas Christian University...
The minor-league deal. The non-roster invite to spring training. It’s like one of those phrases you hear in passing and ignore. There are two types of non-roster invitees, as former Dodgers GM Fred Claire pointed out to me the other day. “There’s the promising young player that you would like to...
Baseball has a history of unpredictability. Over the course of a 162 game schedule, anything can (and usually does) happen; injuries to key players can doom a team expected to play deep into the post season.
Last year's defending World Champion San Francisco Giants, for example, were knocked out...
The off-season is winding to an official close for all Major League Teams so its time for the optimism that springs anew with the coming of the new season. After all, on Opening Day everybody is tied for first place.
The American League East always has the traditional powers with the...
Buster Olney has written many times this winter that he believes that Josh Johnson of the Miami Marlins is the most important player to his team’s success this season. I respectfully disagree. I think that the individual performance of Ubaldo Jimenez will have a massive impact on the team...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ted Williams was lured back to baseball on this date in 1969 to manage the Washington Senators - the greatest hitter of all time leading a struggling expansion franchise that had yet to finish a season with a winning record. It lost at least 100 games in four of its first eight...
Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dan Flaherty
The night was October 16, 2004 and a game, and another season was slipping away from the Boston Red Sox. Already trailing the New York Yankees two games to none in the American League Championship Series, the pitching in Game 3 was serving up batting...
By Vince Cestone
According to Pedro Gomez of ESPN, the Oakland Athletics have agreed to sign free-agent slugger Manny Ramirez to a minor league deal.
Ramirez is expected to report to spring training by the end of the week. The deal is worth about $500,000 if he makes the club out of spring...
Yesterday I wrote at Sports Media Watchdog about the public overreaction to the ESPN “Chink in the Armor” story; today I came across a story about MLB messing with tradition in the name of political correctness. Last September, the League prevented the Mets from wearing hats honoring first...
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Many consider baseball an unchanging game of tradition allowing fans to compare the statistics of today's stars to yesterdays, but it's a myth.
For example, the strike zone has changed numerous times over the years, and many believe it changes depending on who's calling...
You may be surprised to find out how far back spring training goes.
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.“ - Rogers Hornsby
Thousands of fans travel to Florida or Arizona each spring to see...
It amazed me how the legacy of A.J. Burnett got worse as the rumors of an impending trade neared. Listening to the fans and media pundits, you would think Burnett is the worst pitcher in baseball. As a matter of fact, there was talk about how this could be the worst free agent signing in...
Spring Training is finally here! I’m so excited I can barely contain myself. The prospect of a great summer filled with interesting storylines, great games, good races, and high quality action has never been stronger. Baseball is back. As we head into training camps, however, many players have a...
(Phatzradio / USA Today) — PEORIA, Ariz. – They might have had all winter to correct their flaws, but with spring training camps opening this weekend, many contenders have a better chance of forecasting the Republican primaries than identifying their own rotations.
The New York Yankees widely are...
