Zack Greinke
15 posts
2015 MLB Award Ballot
Voters shouldn't allow postseason performance to skew their voting for regular season awards. With the same caution we now present our 2015 MLB Award Faux ballots... No-one was hurt in the making of these choices.…
Last Night of Winter Meetings
This can be one of the best nights of the offseason. The following is our attempt to document the evening for posterity. *** According to this Jeff Wilson piece in the Fort Worth Star Telegram , Nolan Ryan thinks…
Prepping the Hot Stove
At this time of year, baseball fans of leading teams spend a few minutes now and then daydreaming of postseason possibilities. Summer is easier to let go of when Autumn strikes if your baseball team is in contention.…
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 ,…
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…
Our Return to Dontrelle's Bandwagon
Dontrelle Willis is four games into his comeback. Carrying a 3.52 ERA and 0-1 record into his start in Houston on Wednesday night, D-Train fans have reason for optimism. According to Fangraphs , Dontrelle Willis has…
Least & Most Run Support
So, on Christmas, I went to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks/Bulls matinée game. One of my very good friends invited me to the game by scalping a couple of tickets off craigslist, but they turned out to be a…
Readings, Thoughts, and Deviations
It's been a bit too quiet around these part the past few days, but we've struggled to find a compelling narrative. Without an interesting thesis, or unique insight, this post will consist of interesting nuggets we've…
Top 100 MLB Free Agents
About a month ago, we listed the Top Free Agents by position . Our opinions haven't changed much in the past month, but here we are going to try and rank the whole group. Go grab a drink and settle in, here we go... No.…
Posnanski's Every Run Average
This past week, our favorite writer, Joe Posnanski had a great run. He produced more than a handful or columns, including four that really stood out. Here is Joe's Sparky Anderson eulogy , a ranking of the weakest World…
MLB Team Snapshots
The Beautiful Mind level insanity around the AL Previews formula I've been tinkering with and referred to in these two posts should (hopefully) be done today. In an effort to not let the homework slow down our…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part II
We're taking this one step at a time. In Part I of this series, we broke down the first steps towards constructing a recipe to see which teams will perform better in the relative crapshoot that is baseball's postseason.…
Ugh, Pitcher Wins? Is this 1972?
How bad can things get in Cleveland? LeBron is gone, so the Cavs are terrible. The Indians are playing out the string. The Browns are ranked 32nd on most power polls, including ESPN's. They don't even have a hockey…
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…
Act Two Begins
If the baseball season can be looked at as a three act play, we would take each two months as an act. In your basic three act structure, Act One is used to introduce the audience to the characters of the play. The…
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