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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
After reading this Bloomberg Sports analysis of Joba Chamberlain's performance so far this year, and then watching him pitch the eighth inning last night, I'm maybe thinking there is something to this idea that Joba isn't really pitching as poorly as his "standard" stats would indicate -- and by that, ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
So now there's a semi-uproar over how Joe Girardi managed the ASG last night, and in particular how he didn't get Alex Rodriguez in to the game in the ninth inning with a chance to tie the game. This is the whole problem with the "This time it counts" ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
So yet another Yankee legend has passed away. Unlike Bob Sheppard, who no doubt was universally liked and admired, I'm sure we're going to see all kinds of different opinions about George Steinbrenner. He did tend to stir things up, one way or the other. But for ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
So Brian Cashman finished in second place in the Cliff Lee "arm for hire" sweepstakes. Clearly this is bad news for the Yankees, as he would have made an already strong starting rotation all the more so. But according to a lot of pundits, the good news here is that ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
I've never been a big fan of interleague play for a number of reasons. There are the obvious ones, like the designated hitter rule which puts the visiting team in these games at a very distinct disadvantage, as their rosters are built significantly differently because of that rule. ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
I've made it clear in the past that I don't like the idea of instant replay in baseball, but with this latest incident with Armando Galarraga losing a perfect game because of a "bad call", I suspect instant replay may start to become an inevitability. But that's not going ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
If you watched the end of the Yankee's 7-3 win on Sunday against Cleveland, you saw one of the more incredible athletic plays ever when Mariano Rivera somehow managed to jump to avoid getting hit by a shattered bat, and yet still managed to field the ball and make the ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
One of the more inane rules in baseball today is the warning given to both teams when the umpire thinks a pitcher may have thrown at a batter on purpose. It's bad enough that an umpire is somehow supposed to know what a pitcher's intent was. But why in the ...
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
I don't think there's any doubt that defense is the most underrated aspect of baseball. Time and again the key plays in a game are the ones made (or not made) on defense, yet they rarely get more than a passing mention in the game stories. Rather it's all about ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
So the biggest question mark going in to spring training is now answered -- Phil Hughes will get the nod as the fifth starter, at least for the start of the season. Although in theory this was an open competition between Hughes, Chamberlain, Aceves, Mitre and Gaudin -- my ...
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