I have to admit that my first reaction to Roger Clemens' protestations of innocence was based on my dislike of the man. He had to be lying. Besides, most of us...
I found Alan's list of the top WS/1000 inn for shortstops with 1000 games to be most interesting, and not just because my old favorite Marty Marion topped the...
I noticed the relatively low ranking for Miller too, and found that interesting. Reese actually had a very good win share rating, about what might be expected...
Noteworthy that the Twins felt compelled to offer a rationalization to their fans for the Santana trade. Of course, there is none. To begin with, the idea...
I'm embarrassed that this ending up in Charley Walters's column last week with me being credited for it. I did pass the info to him with attribution to Blake,...
Yes, it's all very interesting. How about Dal Maxvil?? Of course range factors can be deceiving since it's chances per game, and it counts as a game if you...
In a recent post, Alan mentioned that Bill James once puzzled over the decline in popups to the catcher. why would this be? there are several possibilities,...
The win shares are per 1000 innings, not per game. Maxvill would never have socred this well if it was strictly on games. For example, James has Maxvill...
there used to be a rule, probably still is, that set a minimum (60 feet?) between the plate and the backstop. in the old days, many ball parks exceeded that...
Don't know, but in my knowledge of the old AL stadiums, the foul territory in Fenway, Tiger Stadium, and Yankee Stadium (except directly behind home plate)...
While foul territory shrinks at Yankee Stadium down the lines because of the horseshoe configuration (with the grandstand turning in), Yankee Stadium has a lot...
Remember the Sign Man from the 1969 World Series? I remember seeing him when I attended a couple games at Shea in 1973. When George "The Stork" Theodore got...
Was he the guy with the Ya Gotta Believe sign? Or was that somebody else? I always wondered how he did it. His signs were so play-specific! And very clever....
The Twins sign Livan Hernandez (who as Marc pointed out -- in a basketball listserv?!?! -- projects to a 6.00 ERA with the Twins this year) for $5 million,...
Re our recent discussion about the decrease in foul outs from pre-WW2, the following exceprt is from an ESPN.com article on the Oakland A's. During the Beane...
Ooh, I'd missed that the Twins had signed Craig Monroe -- and his .268 on base average -- for $4 million a year. (More, with incentives.) So that's $21...
Anybody catch this? http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/15699812.html It's a study of fielding in the majors from 2002 to 2005, presented at a meeting of...
Funny that Ken Harvey, who was supposed to be a butcher with the glove, is listed as the best at first base. Not clear from the report if this is simply range...
... glove, is listed as the best at first base. Not clear from the report if this is simply range factor, which has been around for a long time, or some other...
Ask the traditionalists if they should judge batters by how they look rather than what they do. Gee, J.D. Drew has a beautiful swing, let's award him the...
... This is a good rebuttal. ... I likewise was wondering as I read the article whether the guy belongs to (or has heard of) SABR. Oh, but the article says...
This was an item in Sunday's Don't Print That column in the Pi Press: "New Twins pitcher Livan Hernandez, who relies mostly on his breaking ball, would rather...
For some reason ESPN had a couple of stories relating to Bob Gibson's 1968 season. So I checked. In 1968 Bob Gibson gave up 3 or more runs 10 times, 4 or more...
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