[Ring Ring, Ring Ring] Baseball: Hello Gideon: I’ve had some second thoughts, and realized I would like to write about you again, if that’s ok? Baseball: Well, I guess so. I have just finished up three of the most trade and signing packed days of the year. I’m sure you can find something in there. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Baseball Prospectus’
BP Idol, Very Impressed – Just Not with the Contestants
In a rather creative move, the genius that is Baseball Prospectus began their first ever BP Idol competition a few weeks back. Borrowing a page from the Simon Cowell playbook, they chose 10 contestants to partake in the competition, which, similar to American Idol, eliminates one contestant each week based on fan voting. There is [...]
Big Matt ‘The Future’, ‘BirdlandMan’, ‘Wheaties’, Wieters Makes His Orioles Debut Friday
CubicleGM favorite (covered in four posts, including as the focus of one of the originals), and much bally-hooed uber-super-prospect Matt Wieters will join the major league roster Friday, according to Orioles GM Andy MacPhail. MacPhail states the obvious when he says that Wieters isn’t being called up to the majors to ride the pine, and [...]
The Foolishness of the First (Or For That Matter, Any Single) Week
I have a coworker who left for the bar below our office building at 4:30pm today, just about eight hours after returning from two weeks of vacation. Whilst admiring his boldness yet feeling a bit timid myself (I left at 4pm yesterday), I’m struck with boredom as I sit here, without anybody to talk cube-to-cube [...]
That’s Why They Play the Games. Thankfully the Baseball Writers Don’t Choose the Playoff Teams.
Between March 30 and April 6 each and every year baseball pundits think long and hard. They take out their cauldrons, mix in last season’s results, add in each team’s off-season roster maneuvers, toss in some consideration for player growth/regressions, add in some magic potion, and voila, they have their pre-season predictions. Some pontificators use [...]
