Archive for August 2006

Steve considers how the team that hit for the highest average of the 20th century might plausibly have hit vastly better than that.

It’s time for Steve’s update on the Bush League Heavy Chuckers!

Join Steve for the opener of what will be a long-term recurring series analyzing exactly how productive each organization’s farm system has been.

Bringing us right up to date, from the White Flag to DePodesta’s Derring-Do to Sulking Shea.

It’s time to take our first look at the biggest trades from the month of July.

Steve gives us his take on another new book focusing on Roberto Clemente and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Steve takes a close look at the very different rates of effectiveness pitchers demonstrate when working out of the bullpen, as compared to when starting.

Just under the wire to meet the deadline, here are the big shakeups in the most recent months of June. We encounter a Midnight Massacre, a Midnight Masterpiece, and a Montreal Misstep.

The ’50s and ’60s were a very active period for trading around the June 15 deadline. Frantic Frankie Lane was in his heyday, and of course there was George Weiss and his friends in Kansas City …

Steve takes a look at back at the nadir of the Phillies franchise