Archive for June 2008

Are the lights going out on Omar Vizquel’s career? It looks like he can still pick it, but there’s a minimum threshold for hitting and he’s way under that right now.

For those of you who wish you could be in Cleveland for SABR 38, here’s the next best thing, a three-part (so far) recap by Cecilia Tan: Day One, Day Two (Part 1), Day Two (Part 2). Other good chroniclers of the convention include Ryan Armbrust: Day One (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3), (Part […]

It’s June and Ichiro is still hitting under .300 on the year. Time for the annual crop of Ichiro is finished articles. Except they’ve always been wrong. One of these days they won’t be, but it strikes me, and Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing, that when that day comes, we’ll be able to spot it […]

Wow, what an underhanded suggestion from the maple bat industry on how to stop the epidemic of broken bats.

Sabernomics thinks it worthwhile for the Braves to go after Barry Bonds if he truly is available for the league minimum. As does Pinstripe Alley for the Yanks. As does Joe Posnanski for the Royals.

Jacob Jackson breaks down the AL’s dominance over the NL over at Athletics Nation. At this point, there’s very little doubt in my mind that AL teams just have more talent than NL teams.

In my article on Tuesday I horrible misspelled Zack Greinke’s name throughout the entire article. In my defense I grabbed the spelling from another website but failed to check it against my own player card which had the correct spelling. This is inexcusable by me and won’t happen again. Sorry for the confusion and thanks […]

If you haven’t checked out MLB’s gameday yet today go over there and take a look. Some incredible new features have been added. Great work MLBAM!

Larry over at Viva El Birdos breaks down some of the Cardinals’ trade targets.

Tampa Bay Rays first overall pick Tim Beckham will be making his pro debut with Princeton, the Rays rookie league team. (Hat tip to Rays Index.