Take this with a grain of salt, but it certainly appears to me that the changes to the strike zone that we saw last year have disappeared. I watched a ridiculous amount of baseball in the first week of the season, and I routinely saw the pitch between the belt and the letters–a strike by…
DISCREPANCY "It’s the same information the Blue Ribbon Committee has worked off of and the players’ association has, everybody has. It’s very disappointing and just plain wrong. It’s one thing to be wrong and it’s another thing to know when you do it that you’re wrong and you just go ahead and do it anyway….
Transaction Analysis, March 31-April 3, 2002
This week, let’s take a look at the divisional races in the National League. For each division, the average rank of each team is listed, along with the standard deviation for each team, which is a measure of how much variability there was for each team. The lower the deviation, the more agreement there is about that team’s place in the standings.
Over the last several weeks, it’s been our collective pleasure to meet with a few hundred readers at Pizza Feeds around the country. I want to express my thanks to everyone who’s taken the time and effort to come out and talk baseball, and to those special guests who gave generously of their time to…
A ludicrous slippery-slope response to baseball’s recent announcement that they will enforce rules limiting the wearing of protective “body armor” at the plate? Of course it is. No one wants to see batters lose their head protection, no matter how much they crowd the plate.
Over the past three seasons, the National League West has been a royal pain to project. The teams with the best individual players have had incomplete lineups and rosters; the teams with the best pitching have had lousy offenses; the teams spending the most money have put on the worst performances.
Over the past three seasons, the National League West has been a royal pain to project. The teams with the best individual players have had incomplete lineups and rosters; the teams with the best pitching have had lousy offenses; the teams spending the most money have put on the worst performances. In that time, the…
NEW YORK, March 15, 2006 — A 50-year baseball tradition has come to an end. Batting helmets, mandatory equipment for all major-league hitters since 1956, will no longer be allowed in MLB games, officials announced today. The move comes after previous league attempts to back hitters off the plate resulted in little change in batter…
Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty.
I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well past the rules of decorum, but the emotion displayed by those people struck me as a large one-finger salute to those who want to say that the Montreal Expos can be eliminated and no one will care. Many people will care; perhaps not enough to make this destroyed franchise viable again, but certainly enough to make the point that the Expos didn’t die: they were killed by an ownership group content to collect welfare rather than compete.
You had to like the scene in Montreal last night, where 34,000 people showed up to express their displeasure with the visiting Florida Marlins. The Marlins, of course, were what Jeffrey Loria upgraded to after selling the Expos to Major League Baseball. I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well…
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty. The April 15 issue of Forbes contains the magazine’s annual survey of MLB’s finances. Michael Ozanian has been compiling these surveys since 1991, first for the…