After a thrilling conclusion to Game 163, the playoff matchups are set and the six long months of the regular season have come to a close. With the postseason beginning Wednesday afternoon, it’s time to make some predictions about which team will be standing in November. Below you can find an aggregation of predictions from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Albert Pujols’
Wake Me Up When September Ends
August is supposed to be the Dawg-Days of the MLB baseball season, while September is usual full of excitement around playoff races and MVP & Cy Young awards. Less two weeks left in the season, there remains very little to be decided. As a result, the last two weeks are shaping up to be pretty [...]
Breaking Down the NL Central…It’s a Two Horse Race
Since the beginning of the season, the NL Central has been the tightest overall division race in all of baseball. Currently, four teams are within five games of first place, and as recently as June 28th, all six teams were within that same striking distance of the division title. With approximately two months two go [...]
Nearing the Halfway Point… Some Baseball Musings
Before jumping into my post, please allow me to Re-introduce myself. As you can see, my byline has changed from Vlookup Vince to Gideon. Otherwise, though, the Vince I have pretended to be is not all that much different to the Gideon that I am. I love the business of sports, love viewing sports through [...]
Here They Are… Your League Leaders (Hitting)
I usually try to avoid even perusing the MLB stat leaderboard for the first six or eight weeks of every baseball season; the sample size is generally too small, so why get hung up on quick starts? We’ve discussed this previously. Come mid- to end of May, however, it is worth taking a look at [...]
I’m Dunn With Adam. Please Walk Over, Albie.
I was having a discussion with a pal yesterday; the subject was Adam Dunn’s fantasy value. I offered my standard stathead Dunn rhetoric which says “I’ll accept the K’s as a byproduct of superior plate discipline which we all know leads to walks & power”. It’s a well known theory that may as well be [...]
