Prince Fielder
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2014 MLB Season Preview
It's been a brutally cold winter across most of the Northern hemisphere this year, with feeble warmth from the hot stove. We are ready for warm weather and ballgames. At least the ballgames start this week. Let's look…
Wins Above Replacement / 600 Plate Appearances
Look in the mirror. You'll see a person who would click on an article titled: Wins Above Replacement / 600 Plate Appearances . Anyone with an opinion on what it is "to blog" will say that readership numbers vary…
MLB Attendance Trends
Since the All-Star Game is the proverbial midway point of the season, let's take a look at per game attendance trends of each Major League club, compared to last season. After the chart below, we'll try to make some…
2012 MLB Predictions
Spring is the time of rebirth and hope. This is the most hopeful time of year. Baseball is Spring. Hope is in the air, unless you're a realistic fan of teams from Houston, Oakland, Chicago, or Baltimore. In towns all…
Prince and his Power
One of my stranger collections are the undeveloped ideas, explorations, and arguments that lay in the tenuous existence of this blog's nebulous Saved Drafts folder. Archived like time capsules, these drafts may house a…
Coal for the Hot Stove
We did this 367 days ago . It was so much; we had to do it again. Below is our suggestion for a 25-man roster comprised solely of current free agents, as of Dec 31, 2011. Pos: Player SP: Edwin Jackson Roy-O PHOTO…
AL East Notes
We shared our droning on the NL East a couple of weeks ago. Springing forth in spite of a remarkable lack of creativity, below are a few quick thoughts on recent developments in the AL East. Unlike last time, these will…
Random Thoughts, Early November
Theo Epstein and Ben Cherington discussed potential new managers for the Red Sox before Theo left for Chicago. So, they're working off similar lists of candidates. For sure, I'm biased, but why in the world would…
Prepping the Stove
Cubs fans have basically been stuck in Hot Stove forever, having not gone to the World Series in the past sixty-five years. As current fans have likely noticed, the team hasn't contended since being swept out of the…
2017 Future Star: Daniel Vogelbach
Yesterday, we took a brief look at the Cubs' 2nd Round selection from the June Draft: Dan Vogelbach. He's still just an unsigned amateur, and may end up accepting a scholarship from the University of Florida if the Cubs…
Looker, Better than Belly Itcher
Overcoming the inertia of our humble, little blog space can often be embarrassingly challenging. We're usually lucky enough to find a few minutes each day to look into something, but finding a way to entertainingly…
Players in Their Primes
Let's begin with what this is NOT. This is not a quasi mock fantasy draft. We're not ranking players with a view on fantasy baseball. We are not necessarily arguing that any of these players will be better in 2011 than…
Recent Rumors & Reactions
July is the best month of the year for MLB trade rumors, and thus mlbtraderumors.com . To keep up with the pace, we will try to pull the highlights from recent posts... Miguel Tejada to the Phillies I actually like this…
BAseball Reality Tour - Animal Style
First, let's get this awkwardness out of the way... The ol' blog has been silent for, gasp, more than a month. I am sorry to the gaggles of brilliant readers who've been waiting and waiting and waiting. Still, my…
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