Grabbed from my Hall of Fame voting archives:
I voted for Tim Raines his first year of eligibility. But when he failed to get 25 percent of the vote, he was moved to the back burner. Sorry, that’s just the way it has to be. Maybe more eligible ballwriters should have measured the Rock’s career numbers [...]
Archive of posts tagged terrible sports journalism
Reminder: Bill Conlin is a Known Chass Clone
Hitting Homers To Power Outages Overnight
Apparently Bryant Gumble and doesn’t know how to look up a player in baseball-reference. Well he shouldn’t worry about that because I’ll do it for him:
Jeff Bagwell
Year
Age
Tm
Lg
G
PA
HR
SLG
OPS
1991
23
HOU
NL
156
650
15
.437
.824
1992
24
HOU
NL
162
697
18
.444
.812
1993
25
HOU
NL
142
609
20
.516
.903
1994
26
HOU
NL
110
479
39
.750
1.201
1995
27
HOU
NL
114
539
21
.496
.894
1996
28
HOU
NL
162
719
31
.570
1.021
1997
29
HOU
NL
162
717
43
.592
1.017
1998
30
HOU
NL
147
661
34
.557
.981
1999
31
HOU
NL
162
729
42
.591
1.045
2000
32
HOU
NL
159
719
47
.615
1.039
2001
33
HOU
NL
161
717
39
.568
.966
2002
34
HOU
NL
158
691
31
.518
.919
2003
35
HOU
NL
160
702
39
.524
.897
2004
36
HOU
NL
156
679
27
.465
.842
2005
37
HOU
NL
39
123
3
.380
.738
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/21/2010.
That sure doesn’t look like Bagwell went from hitting homers to a power outage overnight to my untrained eye. Forgetting the arthritis condition [...]
The Worst 2010 Hall of Fame Ballots I Found
Because I keep a nerdy spreadsheet tracking all the ballots I find, I’m able to look back and be irritated at some of the worst Baseball Hall of Fame ballots instead of forgetting about them. I consider this a positive because it reminds me of whose opinions I should not care about later on in [...]
2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)
Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003.
For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here.
This year, the shocking thing that happened was the difference between [...]
Hot Stove Authority Abuse
This article has no by-line but according to the Daily News, here are “Five Free Agents the Yankees are Eyeing”:
1. RHP John Lackey (11-8, 3.83 ERA): The Yankees will be hesitant to pay him what he wants, but if Andy Pettitte retires, they may have to.
2. INF/OF Mark DeRosa (.250, 23 HR, 78 RBI): Jersey [...]
I Can Make Up Outlandish Rumors Too
Last night I was told by an MLB executive that the Yankees plan to switch Derek Jeter to Left Field this season, citing his declining range in the field. This would allow the Yankees to start Ramiro Pena–a glove they really like–at Shortstop and shore up their infield defense. One long-time scout said that he [...]
Bill Madden: 2009 Spink Award Finalist
Bill Madden, terrible sports writer for the NY Daily News is a 2009 Spink Award finalist.Winners of the Spink award get mention in a permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame, though they are not actually considered Hall of Famers. When you see ESPN call Peter Gammons a “Hall of Fame” writer, they’re referring [...]
Michael Wilborn Doesn’t Watch Baseball, I Guess?
And one kid pitcher, even one with a great arm, is unlikely to change that because there’s so much that can go wrong with the kid’s shoulder or elbow, with the contract negotiations. Maybe, putting on my optimist’s hat for a moment, Strasburg will be the exception to all this. Maybe he’ll trump history and [...]
Nick Green: Integral Member of THE RIVALRY
Ken Rosenthal lists Nick Green as “subplot” to keep an eye on in this week’s series.
Believe it or not, the fill-in shortstop has his own small place in the Sox-Yankees rivalry.
I don’t believe it, because it’s not true.
Green is better at second than short, but injuries to both Julio Lugo and Jed Lowrie created an [...]
Panic!! Panic!! Alert!!
I really can’t get enough of the front and back covers of the Daily News and Post during the season (and also not during the season when running baseball related stories). They are really hilarious in their attempts to sell papers by stirring up controversy and getting silly people to panic and I am easily [...]
