A pair of Minnesota hitters were key factors keeping their team alive.
It’s always a tough competition when disease is not involved: Chris Carpenter has been voted NL comeback player of the year and Aaron Hill has won the AL award. Limited to four starts over the prior two seasons because of elbow surgery and a shoulder injury, Carpenter was 17-4 with a league-leading 2.24 ERA for […]
Following up on Jason’s news from Friday, Rob announces the team-specific blogs that are now partnered with ESPN. There they are: • Fire Brand of the American League (Red Sox); • Mack Avenue (Tigers) • GoHalos.com (Angels); • Memories of Kevin Malone (Dodgers); • Nick’s Twins Blog; (Colt .45s); • It’s About the Money (Stupid!) […]
Thanks for all of the kind words in the ATH thread, folks. It makes the three or four years I’ll be losing at the end of my life due to chronic sleep-deprivation all worthwhile. A preview of the Cardinals-Dodgers NLDS. This smells like conventional baseball writing. I don’t do conventional baseball writing very well, so […]