With 27 wins in the bank and 122 games left to play, at the quarter post of the season the Dodgers only need to play .500 ball the rest of the season to win 88 games. Given the holes apparent in each...
I feel St. Louis is going to win the NL Central division with relative ease because its strengths play so well in a division in which the other five teams have mirror image weaknesses. Even allowing ...
As a life-long Phillies fan, I watched most of the games the Phillies played in April and the lack of extra-base hits generated by a line up without Chase Utley and Ron Howard was maddening. On the o...
I run my model before every game is played and it’s based off of the same information that goes into the preseason projections. In doing so, I take the starting line up of each team, including that n...
Consider two pitching staffs of two teams, Team A and Team B. Team B has recorded more strikeouts, therefore fewer opposing batters hit balls into the field of play. Edge to the pitching staff of Tea...
As soon as the New Year’s holiday ends and the American economy begins another calendar year, stock market observers can count on being assaulted by headline writers and business commentators using t...
Nothing I have written in the last six months has generated as much response, site traffic, or “retweets” on Twitter as the piece I wrote last week about my plans to attend the Kentucky Derby. There ...
One of the challenging aspects of being a parent is anticipating future problems your children my face before they arise. In the not too distant future my daughters, nearly 6- and 8-years old, will s...
The most absurd discussion I heard this baseball season occurred on Monday, April 16 the day after the Dodgers had won its sixth straight game to improve its record to 9-1. On the show Around the Hor...
Despite the absence of throwback uniforms or a clever in-stadium marketing campaign, when the Philadelphia Phillies faced the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night in the rubber game of the three-game...
Thanks to stat heavy web sites like redsoxstats.com and the discussion forums at Sons of Sam Horn (which I believe pre-date the existence of FanGraphs and possibly even baseball-reference.com) Boston...
That’s right, I’m going to address decision making that occurred before many fans had gotten out of the beer line, because two-thirds of an inning into a 162 game season, with his ace on the mound, Y...
Just as a generation of Yankees fans have grown to recognize the opening notes of Enter Sandman as a bridge to Mariano Rivera, himself a bridge to Sinatra’s New York, New York, and just as the studen...
Coming to you live from the LVH, the hotel formerly known as the Las Vegas Hilton, I give you a finalized look at the projected standings for MLB’s 2012 season. The over/under column reflects the cur...
Every once in a while you’ll hear a story about parents who went away on a trip and assured their teenage son that they trusted him to be sensible. Sure, they said, you can have some friends over, bu...
In 2011, the Los Angeles Dodgers squandered one of the National Leagues’ great hitting and pitching combinations. Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay can at least make an argument they were better, by degrees...
Baseball models have a certain degree of elegance to them owing to the interconnected symmetry of pitching and hitting. Just as debits must always equal credits in the world of accounting, runs score...
By the time the 2011 season began, the city suddenly had a generation of Giants-gear-wearing kids following baseball, and not only was there a noticeable patron increase in the Union Street and Marin...
Given that 30 Teams in 30 (Week) Days moves today to the last remaining division, the National League West, and given that the previews are presented in a top-to-bottom format, today’s headline begs ...
The staff at Baseball Prospectus released their pre-season predictions yesterday. The 27 staffers submitted an expected-order-of-finish ballot for all six divisions and there was only one unanimous s...
On July 25th of last year, 100 games into the 2011 season, the leaders of the NL Central were not the St. Louis Cardinals, who would go on to win the World Series, not the Milwaukee Brewers who would...
Theo Epstein, Chicago’s new General Manager, is going to make the Cubs better in a hurry because like a new doctor in town who has previously practiced his craft in the crucible of a war zone, he not...
Last month, the New York Giants earned the distinction of being the first team to win the Super Bowl despite a certain regular season deficiency. The anomaly didn’t get a lot of play among football c...
Now that Fielder has departed, what sort of team is Milwaukee left with in 2012 compared to the squad that came within two wins of its first World Series appearance in nearly thirty years? In terms o...
The St. Louis Cardinals took a remarkable two-month path from 9 ½ games back in the wild card race to celebrating in a champagne-splattered clubhouse on October 28. The incredible comeback(s) in Game...
For as long as stories of epic late-season collapses are told, the 2011 editions of the Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox will forever be linked in misery. Both teams had nine game leads on its n...
Since the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington, D.C after the 2004 season, the franchise has yet to finish above .500. The only other teams without a winning season during that period of time are t...
I can just hear you saying, “Tell me something I don’t know, Bud Fox.” O.K, how about this: Not only are the Mets not going to finish in the NL East cellar, thanks to the expanded Wild Card round, I ...
Even before the Miami (neé Florida) Marlins made a single off-season move, new manager Ozzie Guillen walked into a good situation expectations-wise. On the surface, Miami looked like a team in declin...
My favorite baseball writer, Joe Sheehan, likes to say that from a fan’s perspective the ideal baseball team owner is one who values a marginal win more than a marginal dollar of profit. I really lik...
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