What does it mean to know how good a player really is? Or, how likely is Ichiro to get a hit in his next at-bat?
Because Lord Haw Haw always seems to rile you people up: #sfgiants in serious talks for freddy sanchez. bowker, frandsen, guzman 3 of many names being discussed. Sanchez would actually be a really good pickup for the Giants.
Sorry for the silence over here. Kind of a crazy day, as I pinch hit for the travelling Aaron Gleeman over at CTB. I had figured it would be two or three sleepy posts, but then Lee gets traded, the Pirates and Mariners trade a good chunk of their junk back and forth, and J.P. […]
All of the cool kids are on their way to the SABR convention in D.C., so I’m doing a little extra duty over at the Blue Network this morning: Vin Scully, legend; Bill Plaschke, idiot. Dustin Pedroia will tell you: length doesn’t matter. Nats Park gets more expensive. Dice-K is starting to get the beatdown […]
Padres 3, Reds 2: If the recaps suffer a bit today it’s because I was at a bar saying goodbye to a good friend last night (a friend longtime ShysterBall readers will remember, actually). Mark and I used to work at the same law firm together, and once I left at the end of last […]