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MLB Team-by-Team At-a-Glance
More than half of today's games are matinees, including a couple of 12:35 ET starts in Baltimore and Cincinnati. So, we don't have all afternoon to craft a comprehensive This Moment in Baseball post. Instead, let's run…
Small Sample Size Much?
How 'bout this insignificant sample size ? #Royals 1B Eric Hosmer with two swinging strikeouts so far after going three for three in Saturday's victory. — Bob Dutton (@Royals_Report) March 3, 2013 The day before, we got…
So What's the Scenario?
"Funny how falling feels like flying, even for a little while." - Bad Blake Bud Selig should be ashamed of himself. Losing the One Game Playoff is cruel to emotionally invested baseball fans. If what happened to the…
June Swoons and Stars or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BABiP and K/BB Rates
It's June 1st, and that can mean many things. for one: regression. Below are a couple of arrangements of players, as squads, whose April/May performances stand out from the norm. Potential June Swoons C: Carlos Ruiz ,…
State of the Disabled List
Jason Martinez, of the remarkably comprehensive website MLBdepthcharts.com , tweeted a keen observation on Sunday: According to my calculations, there are 166 players on the DL. #Padres lead league with 14. #Rangers…
Thoughts from the Air
A view from the cockpit. It's Saturday morning, and I'm flying from New York to Chicago, with aspirations to see the Dodgers at Wrigley this afternoon. Thinking back on recent days around baseball, developments have…
MLB Facts and Opinions
Statistical observations of this young season should all be accompanied with a small sample size warning, and this exercise is no different. Today, we're checking the pulse of Major League Baseball, in power rankings…
Quick Look at the Final Four
Just a few weeks ago, it was a widely believed that baseball's Final Four would include the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies and a team the Phillies would defeat. After Chris Carpenter pitched himself into eastern Missouri…
Mixed Emotions
This could get personal and may ramble on, but in the meantime, I'll try to be concise while struggling through the mixed emotions of joy, pain, sadness, sorrow, hope, and something extra. Joy Livan is getting larger...…
Hyperbole, I has It
Walked into the office this morning to see Hall of Fame writer, Peter Gammons, tweet this : From one who knows pitching:"The command and stuff Pineda gets from that angle is uncanny. He could end up better than Felix"…
Love and Baseball
For all you youngsters out there, this is the only way it's acceptable to propose at a ballgame... Goosebumps. As Harry Caray would say, "Ah, young
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