Jim has the results of his reader architecture poll, with a few surprising results, and a few not-so-surprising ones.
Jim turns the clock back to examine some interesting contests played in the era when Good Friday games were rare.
With the Mets facing the Cardinals in this season’s long-awaited opener, Jim presses the history button.
No headline is safe in this edition of Prospectus Matchups.
Motivated by a lack of sports venues in the American Institute of Architects’ recent poll of top buildings, Jim opens the floor for readers to nominate the best and worst sporting facilities of all time from an architectural standpoint.
After Endy Chavez brought back a homer, a date with the Tigers seemed inevitable. Disappointed by that, can the Mets now deliver in 2007?
There are plenty of Wikipedia entries that never make it onto the information superhighway–like Presley Wilkes’ recollections of (very) amateur baseball.
Jim talks about low-end titles and the teams that won them, ways to make your roto league a little more interesting, and a tourism trend you might want to employ in your baseball-watching plans.
Jim moves over from the lineups to the mound, and tabs starters who found new homes this winter.
Jim tabs his group of the best bunch of team-jumpers from each league and at each position.
Jim pays tribute to those players who don’t slug much, yet still manage to get on base.
Jim rescues some extra data from BP’s internal mailing list and takes a look at teams that were shut out more than 10% of the time.
Of the players with no prior big league experience, who has the best PECOTA projections for 2007? Jim takes a look at the top newbie at each position.
Jim follows up a column from 2005 where he discussed players with one game and one game only of MLB experience. Today, he adds a few players to the club, and checks on the status of former members.
With three shopping days left until Christmas, Jim rises above the hustle and bustle of this holiday season to discuss what’s really important–the greatest seasons of all time.
Jim reviews who was best at getting on base, and finds a record that may never be touched.