A few weeks back in a column I wrote reviewing the first half, I made the claim that Kirk Rueter could be expected to decline from his good first half. I made this prediction based on his poor strikeout rate and strikeout-to-walk ratios. Rueter, of course, has pitched even better in the second half. In…
The subjects of revenue sharing and fixing the alleged performance disparity between "large-market" and "small-market" teams won’t go away. This despite the stellar performance of the Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Oakland A’s, teams once firmly entrenched in the "small-market" camp. Indeed, to listen to WEEI (the great sports-talk radio station in Boston), one…