Omar Minaya

6 posts

  1. Grading the Trade Deadline of 2008

    Everyone says you can't judge trade deadline, or draft class, winners and losers immediately, but baseball pundits still crank them our for major publications, like Sports Illustrated or ESPN . The reasons for the…

  2. The Best Free Agents

    W're working on a few things over here including: a revised Game Score formula that sort of feels more right, with IFFB data our look at 1973 awards Mark Prior Sandy Alderson's next move I'd think that at least two of…

  3. The Steve Phillips/Omar Minaya Post

    At one point two Fridays ago, I was hit with a douse of inspiration to explore something that I knew would require a bit of exploring baseball-reference.com . ( No hard feelings if you don’t read this. It’s a lot.) As…

  4. While We're Away

    We're going to be heading to the lovely LaGuardia Airport for a flight to the city of my birth, Chicago. I'm actually not taking my laptop because it's a quick trip for the wedding of dear friends of ours, and we'll be…

  5. Quick Looks at a Glance

    Ever since I was a kid, I'd use the term 'quick look' for when I'd see someone who looked like someone we knew or a famous person. The idea is that if you turn your head back and forth really quickly, so you only catch…

  6. Monthly Pulse, August

    Yesterday's trading deadline has solidified the rosters of most contenders. We can expect more movement than usual in August trades this season because more teams will be wary of claiming a player on waivers, due to…