Most ballots for the Hall of Fame are meh. There are a lot of dumb decisions that are only mildly offensive such as voting for Jack Morris and not Bert Blyleven like Buster Olney, not voting for Bert Blyleven, etc. There are some writers who go with big ballots and vote for people they don’t [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
A Well Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
I read a lot of books about baseball when there is no actual baseball going on (ok I do it when there is baseball going on too). I figure I might as well incorporate the Now Reading plugin stuff (that’s the “baseball library” link in the top nav) with actual posts. – When Curt Flood [...]
Yankees Partial Plan Schedules Up
The Yankees have put up the schedules for all the partial plans, including what used to be the flex plans (they are not as thrilling). You can check them out here . Hopefully that means they are chugging along and us poor partial holders will hear soon! I am holding out hope that my (potential) [...]
ESPN Hall of Fame Ballots
Just got a note that the ESPN writers put their ballots up (thank you ajnrules)! There are 11 of them, so here’s a seperate post. The spreadsheet and megapost will be are updated shortly: ESPN Writers Ballot Buster Olney: Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, Jack Morris, Mark McGwire. Brendan Roberts: Rickey Henderson, Bert Blyleven, Tim [...]
More Pettitte Back and Forth
Joel Sherman (probably erroneously) reported yesterday that the Yankees are going to cut Pettitte’s contract offer which would, in essence, then telling him to go away. Period. Pettitte recently rejected the Yanks’ latest $10 million overture, and now – barring a wave of sentimentality by the Yanks or significant strategy shift by either side – [...]
Tyler Kepner Report On Pettitte
In some ways, Andy Pettitte is no different from the dozens of other free agents to start the new year without a team. Players all over baseball are waiting for better offers, and teams are searching for bargains. Andy Pettitte was offered a one-year, $10 million deal, a 37.5 percent decrease from his $16 million [...]
The First Two Prime 9s
The first episode of Prime 9 is “Best 9 Center Fielders”. Going in I figured they would mostly follow the Bill James list and not really do anything interesting or controversial (which is funny because James’ CF rankings are considered controversial). Here is their list: 9 – Kirby Puckett 8 – Jim Edmonds 7 – [...]
The AL East Is Ridiculous
The Rays just signed Pat Burrell to a 2 year/16 million dollar deal. That is insanely cheap, and he will presumably be their DH since Crawford is a Tampa institution in Left Field and they acquired Matt Joyce to play Right Field. The lineups for the top three teams in the AL East now look [...]
Got seven million dollars lying around? Well, you can use that money to buy Bobby Abreu’s apartment! I guess that means the Mets aren’t signing him. It is a nice place but I sadly do not have that sort of cash (or credit) at my disposal.
Chicago Tribune Writers 2009 Hall of Fame Ballots
The Chicago Tribune has made the ballots of all their qualified writers public for the 2009 Hall of Fame. I’ve seperated it from the big post of everything because it’s so much. It includes my absolute favorite “bad” ballot of the year in Dave Van Dyck. Look for him bellow, here’s the listing with links [...]
