Recently we’ve been running a series by Gary Huckabay in which Gary evaluates major-league fielders using a combination of the available metrics and his own visual observations. Defense has proven difficult to quantify, and without a "killer app" for the task, we’re left with a combination of flawed tools. One of the problems with evaluating…
Just read your "Doctoring the Numbers" piece on the sucking Rockies. It would be good to see how non-Rockies teams fare on road trips. Perhaps fatigue, stinky underwear, the cumulative effects of restaurant food or some other aspect that builds over a road trip makes all teams hit significantly worse later in a road trip….
First off, I’d like to thank Rabbi Pesach Wolicki for a great idea, which is to include info on batter handedness like so: 2B-R is a right-handed-hitting second baseman. As always, I’m grateful for yet another sensible suggestion from our readers. ANAHEIM ANGELS Placed RHP Al Levine on 15-day DL, retroactive to 7/31 (elbow inflammation);…