January 2011

  1. Last-Minute Team Off the Street

    The last time we brought in some coal for the hot stove was December 29th. It's even colder here in New York the last week of January. When we discussed the hot stove late last year, we were able to put together a…

  2. 2011 Fantasy Rankings: Catchers

    The silver lining surrounding the Bears season ending today, is that we're one step closer to baseball season. This offseason, we've focused more on baseball history and hot-stove circumstances. Very little time has…

  3. Stark, Underrated Response

    Jayson Stark unveiled his All-Underrated team of active players today on ESPN.com. Stark is a modern-day BBWAA icon for his baseball musings on ESPN's website, magazine, and TV networks. He's into nuances of the game…

  4. Throwing Strikes or Effectively Wild?

    Warning: This post includes a lot of numbers, some observations, and unfortunately very few conclusions. Last month, we looked at pitchers with extraordinary abilities at missing bats in the zone . Tonight, in the…

  5. Remembering Pavano the Yankee

    Yankee fans have many reasons to have negative feelings towards Carl Pavano . Even fans who do not embrace advanced baseball statistics in general, or Wins Above Replacement in particular, can agree that…

  6. No Pressure, Starlin!

    Is it fair to compare 20-year old Starlin Castro with 36-year old, 5-time World Champion, future Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter ? Well, Jeeze, um, I guess we'll pick, um... Castro? It's quite likely that we will not see…

  7. Bored? Have Fun with WPA/LI

    Since an anonymous poster recently said our Managerial Coaching Tree study seemed "kind of boring", we thought we'd liven things up with a fairly advanced stat, Situational Wins. How could anyone find Stump Merrill…

  8. The Hit King, Matt Murton

    Many of us always wanted the Cubs to give Murton a chance to blossom as a lefty mashing 4th Outfielder. They gave him a chance to play, but I think the team should have shown just a bit more patience with Matt Murton .…

  9. Baseball's Managerial Trees

    It was over a month ago that we started taking an in-depth look at managerial trees. We've heard much about the NFL coaching trees of Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, Chuck Noll, and even Marty Schottenheimer. For a while,…

  10. 2011 Hall of Fame Voting Results

    Congratulations to Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven ! Blyleven for the Hall peeps could start backing Raines I suspect that many of the people who fought for years to get Blyleven into the Hall will now use their…

  11. Triple-Slash Triple Crown Winners

    The last time someone won the Triple Crown was over forty years ago, when Carl Yastrzemski did it for the Boston Red Sox in 1967 with a .326 average, 44 Homeruns, and 121 RBI. A year earlier, Frank Robinson had just won…

  12. Phish: Meatstick Throwdown & Sneakin' Sally

    This isn't sports related, but here is how we brought in 2011... IMHO, Allen Toussaint's " Sneakin' Sally through the Alley " was the best song from the following night, 1.1.11. All the other Meters fans in the audience…

  13. Beat Green Bay

    Phish was spectacular, ringing in New Year's last night. It was so good, in fact, that we're going back again in about an hour. Before heading to the Garden, we need to get out our picks for the final regular season…

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