Archive for December, 2007

What’s Your Favorite Baseball Movie?

I hope you had a Merry Christmas!!

Here’s a listing of our family’s favorite Baseball movies and the reason why we like them. These reviews are going to be conducted by my family and in-laws this week of Christmas. Here are the results:

• Grandpop (my father-in-law): “The Natural” – A quintessential drama where a down and out team, run by a corrupt owner, that finds itself riding the coat-tails of the unlikeliest of heroes,…

Merry Christmas

Sorry, but no posts today. I’ll be too busy with family today. May all of you have a blessed Christmas day with your loved ones.

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Who’s the Best Closer in Major League Baseball?

Reader Interaction Time

Here’s the part in the blog where you get out of it, what you put into it.
Please reply to this post with your (the readers) choice for the best closer in Major League Baseball and don’t forget to tell us why you choose who you did. I will post these at the end of this entry as they come in.
If this works well, I’ll do more of…

MLB, the Mitchell Report and the IOC

Pete’s Perspective

After close to two years we now have the results of the Mitchell Report on PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) in major league baseball. One question now has emerged on the lips of many. What do we do about it?! Roger Maris didn’t cheat when he hit 61 HRs, but did get an asterisk next to it because the league, at that time (and still does) played more games than…

Roger Clemens and The Mitchell Report

Last week, Baseball Musings wrote about the timeline found in the Mitchell Report (See pages 167-176) on 300 game winner, Roger Clemens entitled, “Clemens 1998”.

This does not help Roger’s denial case that he’s trying to build up. Now I’m not saying that he’s lying, but I do remember when he left Boston as a free agent after the 1996 season. I remember it now because he stated his reason for leaving…

Pete’s MLB Fantasy Picks: Catcher

Pete’s Picks

The top catcher going into 2008 is a split between Cleveland’s Victor Martinez, who also qualifies at 1B, and the Dodger’s Russell Martin. Going strictly by the numbers, Martinez has a 3 point lead over Martin. Some other qualities to look at here is that Martinez, as was mentioned already, also qualifies at 1B. On the other hand, how many catchers can steal anything even close to 20 bases? Martin had 21 in…

Bloggers Unite: Acts of Kindness ‘07

We had a Nor’estah this past weekend where we go snow dumped on us on Tursday & then again on Sunday in the am hours into the late morning. When the dust cleared, I went out with my snow blower & plowed out the front of my neighbor’s driveway (she’s a widow). While I was at it, I also did the same for my tenant upstairs (a single mom with…

Interview With a Twins Fan

The Johan Santana situation, the Twins, and Blogging with Sooze from BabesLoveBaseball

I recently contacted Sooze from BabesLoveBaseball for a Twins fan’s perspective on the latest rumors coming out of Minnesota and about how she began blogging. BabesLoveBaseball has become one of the best baseball blogs around, it has a strong following and is unquestionably unique. Sooze is one of the 4 female writers as well as one of the founders of our beloved…

Tampa Bay Devil Rays! New Look, New Name, Making Some Deals And Possibly A New Field!

This is an article I found & I thought it was worth publishing on the site. This is one Tampa Bay Rays fan’s perspective, but I think Joe Gonzales, the author of the article below, has reason to be excited. Good for them! The Red Sox and Yankees could use the extra competition to stay sharp in a 162 game season (hey, it couldn’t hurt). I actually liked their core of…

2007 Team Analysis: Florida Marlins

Pete’s Perspective

    The font page of their team website should read: Under Construction! What in the world are they doing?! While they’re at it, they might as well trade Hanley Ramirez, Kevin Gregg and Dan Uggla as well! All three would get a lot of interest, especially Ramirez. I bet they could get a lot for trading him back to the Red Sox, especially after the year that Lugo had in 2007! Maybe they have…

2007 MLB Team Analysis: Washington Nationals

Pete’s Perspective

     There’s not much here to write home about! This is still the old Montreal Expos, just in new duds & a new city. Albeit, a big time US city that happens to be our nation’s capital. What better place to host a team from our “National Past Time”? They deserve better than this, or do they? That’s a whole other post for another time. Now back to the 2007…

The Use of Pitch Counts in Major League Baseball

Pete’s Perspective

By Peter Schiller

    In early October when I started this blog, Nathan, a reader asked what my opinion was on the use of pitch counts in major league baseball. Sorry for the delay Nathan!This topic, like the use of modern day Bullpens, are both subjects that I definately have an opinion on. Both of these articles show my “Old School” thinking on baseball. I guess you can say that I’m…

If I were Johan Santana

If I was Johan Santana and just wanted a World Series ring, I’d be in Twins GM Bill Smith’s ear about working out a trade to an American League (AL) team like the Red Sox, Yankees, Indians or Angels.
If I was Johan Santana and just wanted to be as successful as possible, I’d be in Twins GM Bill Smith’s ear about working out a trade to a National League…

Baseball Trivia

Johnny Bench replaced Reds catcher Johnny Edwards, who had been the Reds‘ primary catcher from 1962-1967. But Bench was replaced by Joe Nolan as the Reds backstop in 1981, moving the great Johnny Bench to 3B. But young Alex Trevino was the heir apparent, taking over in 1982, but like Johnny told us last week, Trevino never fulfilled that promise (author’s paraphrase).

Hey Johnny, was the “Baseball Bunch ” still on the air back in 1981-83. I loved that show! Do…

2007 Baseball Winter Meetings

Pete’s Perspective

By Peter Schiller

Pete’s Winter Meeting Predictions

• Johan Santana will no longer be a member of the Twins
• Coco Crisp will either be tagged as the starting centerfielder for the Red Sox in 2008 or he will be on another team
• Someone will show interest in closers Keith Foulke and Eric Gagne (possibly the Brewers, Giants or Braves)
• We will be closer to knowing who is serious about obtaining CF Aaron Rowand
• Billy Beane of the A’s will either make…