Ubaldo Jimenez
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Cleveland Indians 2014 Season Preview
Our series of interesting* team preview posts begins on the shores of the Cuyahoga River. In his first season at the helm of the Cleveland clubhouse, Terry Francona exceeded most expectations. The 2012 Indians went…
Best and Worst, with Stats
It started this morning. Checking out a few things on leaderboards, I noticed that Jamie Moyer , a personal favorite, had an unsightly 1.75 WHIP. Yet, his BB/9 was a better than average 3.14. Naturally, his H/9 was…
2011 MLB Attendance Trends
The last time we took a look at Baseball-Reference 's nifty " 2010 vs. 2011 Attendance " page, the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays had the most improved attendance, while crowds for the LA Dodgers and Seattle…
Trades in the Balance
Is this a fair rotisserie baseball trade? The league scoring is standard 5x5, except we use onbase percentage rather than batting average. The Randy Randos trade: Clay Buchholz Brandon Phillips Hunter Pence Desmond…
Colonel Mustard Strikes Again!
We use our Preseason Predictions as the standard to review at the end of the year. Still, we like to take another look at what our crystal ball would forecast from different times during this season. Let's take the…
Belated Players of the Month
We wanted to get this post out over a week ago and even avoided news of who was actually selected as MLB Players of the Month for April. Based on our recollections and brief look at last month's stats, here are some…
The Return of Good Friends
Early this morning, while reviewing today's starting lineup for our team, I felt the need to create a stir. So, as we periodically do, we went back to "Good Friends", and our photo went from being a smiling Chris Young,…
In the Box Scores
I'll admit that I didn't watch any baseball last night, but still here is a quick recap of last night's action, straight from one of our Nation's free gifts to the world, daily box scores... First, what we were looking…
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