Continuing from Part 1 of the discussion with former major league pitcher Dr. Mike Marshall.
This series is almost remarkable in its absence of “hooks.” Sure, you’ve got the “Pastaman’s Progeny” angle, as two putative Sons of Lasorda duke it out from the dugouts. As regional incest goes, the Bay Area versus the Angeleno megalopolis doesn’t really rise to Boston-New York, and certainly ranks as much more on the level than the low-water mark of the 2000 World Series.
For the fourth time in the last five years, Internet Baseball Awardsâ„¢ voters chose a pitcher as the National League Rookie of the Year.
Today Dr. Mike Marshall, who pitched for nine teams over his 14-year career, works as an adjunct professor at St. Leo University in St. Leo, Fla., teaching exercise physiology.
The Angels beat the Yankees, the Twins beat the A’s. Are teams that depend on
the single and the stolen base better in the post-season than teams that play
for the three run-home run?
Welcome to the presentation of the first batch of results from the 11th Annual Internet Baseball Awards. Today we present the Manager of the Year winners.
So the team I hate the most in MLB is in the World Series. The Giants, who give me a few moments of joy with every error, and a sustained grin for upwards of 30 seconds with each loss, have earned the right to battle Disney’s Hustlin’ White Guys� in the World Series. I should be beside myself with either disdain or apathy.
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“I wanted to kill Eddie, actually. My pitching coach was telling me, ‘I think he’s rushing.’ I said, ‘Rushing, he’s not rushing. This is taking forever.’ ”
The Winner’s Curse is a term borrowed from the oil industry. It stems from the system of auctions of oil rights to parcels of land. (It may have earlier origins than that, but if so, I’m not aware of them.)
The important thing is to have the right people making these decisions.
The Baseball Prospectus staff discusses the latest playoff matchups.
The exploding gas tank that is interleague play just toasted one team’s playoff hopes, launching a less successful team into the post-season.
We missed all four division series predictions here at Baseball Prospectus. I predicted
that the A’s would beat the Twins in “Three. Four max.” The email immediately started to flow in.
With the Twins in the ALCS and these two teams in the NLCS, there are some eerie similarities between today and 1987.
So here we are, in the “underdog” series, in no small part because this series is the one featuring the two American League playoff teams that New Yorkers don’t know about. One team wasn’t supposed to be able to beat the Yankees, and the other wasn’t supposed to beat the team that was supposed to beat the Yankees. Dominant provincialism is so cute, isn’t it?