Posted on March 29, 2008 by xjjeep90
With Opening Day just two days away, CBS’s news magazine “60 Minutes” will have a feature on Bill James, the Boston Red Sox senior adviser and father of sabermetrics.
From the “60 Minutes” website:
“Baseball has always been a game about statistics, something the Boston Red Sox took to a new level when they hired baseball statistics [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by xjjeep90
The big news out of spring training is that the Reds’ #1 pitching prospect has been sent down to Triple A Louisville to start the season. Homer Bailey, 21, had a rough spring and needs some fine tuning to keep down high pitch counts and to improve his location.
Bailey compiled a [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by xjjeep90
The Cincinnati Reds are making some changes to their home ballpark this year. An entire section of seats are now going to be alcohol-free for families, an all-you-can-eat section for fans to gorge on ballpark fare, and a truck in center field.
Yeah. Seriously.
The Reds have become the new Durham Bulls when they [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by xjjeep90
In recent days there has been a firestorm brewing in Redsland. The controversy centers around 700 WLW-AM radio talk show host Paul Daugherty and column he wrote in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Daugherty’s assessed the validity of sabermetrics and how they help or hinder the outcome of managerial decisions on the baseball diamond.
The original column appeared [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by xjjeep90
Since we can’t be in Arizona or Florida for Spring Training, we try to live vicariously through Yahoo!’s photos.
Corey Patterson and Jayson Bay star in Disney’s newest film, “Failures In the Outfield”
Dusty Baker doing what he does best: shattering people’s arms.
The 2008 Florida Marlins payroll: $35
I get a hit now
On my way to Hall of [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by xjjeep90
After a catastrophic computer failure and subsequent banging our collective heads against the wall for two weeks as spring training kicked off, we are finally back.
We wanted to let everyone know that we are okay and what will be upcoming this week as we try to make up for lost time.
2008 Season Preview-All Players, all [...]
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