Mike Trout
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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.…
Fun With MLB Leaderboards
Some really scary news about Antarctica melting was in the New York Times today. A radical climate shift is most certainly upon us. I'm sitting in a sweltering office in midtown Manhattan. There was snow in these parts…
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…
Who Said Mike Trout's Not Perfect?
A special "thank you" goes out to Sam Miller for mentioning, on Effectively Wild , that he sometimes goes to BrooksBaseball.net for a quick snapshot of a player. Sam is right. It's great. It succinctly tells you a lot…
MLB's Most Underrated Team
In response to Brian Kenny... 2013 All-Underrated Team: 1b: Belt 2b: Infante SS: Lowrie 3b: Seager C: Lucroy LF: Nava CF: Rasmus RF: Venable — Brian Kenny (@MrBrianKenny) January 27, 2014 ... below are some thoughts on…
All-RE24 Teams
Joe Posnanski, wrote about RE24 three weeks ago : "The statistic is called RE24 because, as you might know, there are 24 different possibilities when a batter comes up in any given inning. There are eight “states.” They…
Prospecting for Arms ft. Kyle Gibson
Rumors abound that the Minnesota Twins may be charting out a course for Kyle Gibson to join the Major League team's rotation. He's probably one of the five best starters in the Twins organization, but how much of an…
50 Ways to Pick an All-Star Team
Major League Baseball released the All Star Ballots obscenely early this year, about 3 weeks into the season. Below is a link from April 24th. @ mlbonfox @ allstargame it's too early — Bobby Aguilera (@BobbyAguilera)…
Player of the Fortnight
With no games until this evening, it's as good a time as any to honor the most locked-in players in Baseball. About 20 years ago, a scout told me the best way to quickly see which players are on top of their game is to…
2013 Leadoff Hitter Power Rankings
The importance of batting order construction is a polarizing debate. I tend to lean towards evidence that batting order construction ultimately means very little. The one spot in the lineup that tends to be the most…
2012 All Defensive Teams
Major League Baseball announced the 2012 Gold Glove award winners last night. As a suggested prerequisite to the information below, please check out Joe Posnanski's brilliant juxtaposition of the Gold Glove and Fielding…
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…
Who Should Win the MVP?
Buster Olney got it started early this morning... In the wide open AL Cy Young race, the frontrunners from here look to be: 1. Felix Hernandez. 2. Verlander. 3. Weaver. As of today. — Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) August…
First Half MLB Awards
It's the All-Star Break. Time to see how our MLB Awards ballots would look if voting on performances of the first half. AL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award 1. Mike Trout , Angels Trout has many reasons to smile…
MLB's 24 Under 24
Some of you may have participated in a Major League Soccer promotion called 24 under 24 . As the name implies, MLS is highlighting 24 of their brightest young stars, under the age of 24. Fredy Montero is a beacon of…
Mixed Emotions
This could get personal and may ramble on, but in the meantime, I'll try to be concise while struggling through the mixed emotions of joy, pain, sadness, sorrow, hope, and something extra. Joy Livan is getting larger...…
Next Big Hitting Debuts
Over the past three weeks, we've seen the MLB debuts of Eric Hosmer , Brandon Guyer , Julio Teheran , Jose Iglesias , Pete Kozma , and about nine other guys. Baseball-Reference, of course, keeps a record of Major League…
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