Alex Rodriguez
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Rose, Arod & Big Hurt
Pete Rose got 4,256 hits in the Major Leagues, the most all time. Frank Thomas , a first ballot Hall of Famer, began his career with seven straight inner-circle Hall of Fame seasons. Alex Rodriguez hit 696 home runs in…
Yankee Third Base Options
As soon as Alex Rodriguez 's 162-game suspension was announced, baseball writers and bloggers speculated as to who'd play 3rd base for the Yankees. Jay Jaffe summarized internal and free agent candidates to replace…
Cubs Outfield Defense, Misnomer
Photo by Bob Busser In the shadowy right-field corner of Wrigley Field, Jeff Baker tepidly reached out with his glove for a high flyball off the bat of Mark Teixeira . Since there is next-to-no foul territory in the…
Player of the Fortnight
We're sufficiently into the season now to aptly resume our favorite sporadicly recurring Player of the Fortnight series. The background of the Player of the Fortnight Award is recapped in its inception post . To recap…
Already Missing Manny
It was only three days ago. Manny Ramirez just retired this past Friday, and we already miss him. Manny, you may have been a selfish jerk, a cheater, and a first-class weirdo, but you were always interesting and one of…
Another World Series Challenge?
So, who's the best team to miss out on a World Series appearance? It could be the same question as which are the biggest postseason upsets, but we're going to look at it from this perspective. Which are the best teams,…
50 Worst MLB'ers
Good friend and brilliant reader, Jason, comment on our Top 50 Baseball Player series: “Bad contracts can [be] almost as harmful as good contracts can be helpful.” Since this will always be a place for the readers,…
599*
Alex Rodriguez hit his 599th homerun tonight, but a couple of days ago, in his latest blog post , Ken Rosenthal raised an interesting point about Alex Rodriguez: A-Rod, with each homer, gets closer to $30 million in…
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…
The Managerial Rise of Enyr Grebdnas
Harry Caray, bless his heart, had a fascination with names. Players, teams, countries, no-one was safe from his imagination. He would criticize people who's last name sounded better to him as a first name. For example,…
Canyon of Heroes
Loyal readers, it has been an honour touring the wonderful game of baseball since this season's Opening Day. Our highly anticipated hot stove league coverage should begin soon. (teaser: tommy m.) Here is an extensive…
Value Over/Under
Today's exercise looks at some of baseball's most overpaid and underpaid players, based on their '09 performance. Hopefully, this will be informative, fun, or at the very least: tolerable. Special thanks to Fangraphs…
Halladay to Mets?
Peter Abraham is a writer whom I've come to respect a bit recently, since he criticized the Yankees' handling of Alex Rodriguez about a month ago. On June 20th, he wrote about how the Yankees hadn't rested Alex as often…
Case of the Mondays
It's a slow day around Major League Baseball, as there are only four games on the docket. Cubs @ Atlanta Ryan Dempster vs Javier Vazquez This is a makeup game, due to a rain out. So, the Cubs had to fly from Chicago to…
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