Here’s the answer to our trivia question from last week (Click Here to review).
Long time Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter (hat tip to Sox Addict), back in 2006, became the first relief pitcher elected to the Hall of Fame without ever starting a game in his entire career.
Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley […]

[Read more →]

Swinging for the Stars!
This week’s hot hitter was by far, Houston 1B Lance Berkman. As you can see below, he hit for a BA over .400, OBP over .500 while hitting 4 HRs, 12 RBIs & even a SB!
Rounding out the top 5 hot hitters for week 4 would be the Ranger’s 5-tool CF Josh […]

[Read more →]

First, the Mitchell Report and now THIS!
The New York Daily News has reported that Roger Clemens (currently retired?) carried on a decade-long (1990-2000) romantic affair with country star Mindy McCready, who’s star has fallen from the country music scene in recent years. They first met when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and Clemens was […]

[Read more →]

We haven’t done this in a while but this one stumped me so I thought I’d share it.
Who was the first relief pitcher to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame despite having no career starts?
 
The answer will be given sometime next week.

[…]

[Read more →]

David Pinto & Baseball Musings
 
This is the second in the series of link exchanges and it should have been the first (no offense Geoff). After reading David’s article on Baseball Prospectus entitled, “Evolving the Save Rule” which was written back on August 8, 2007 in his weekly spot called, “The Big Picture”. Now back then, […]

[Read more →]

D’Backs 1B Conor Jackson
 
This week was a tough selection, but with 10runs scored, 3 HRs, 10 RBIs to go along with a BA of .480 and an OBP of .519, Conor just edged out the Tiger’s Miguel Cabrera, the Phillies’ 2B Chase Utley and Boston’s Manny Ramirez.
Cabrera had more RBIs (11), Utley had more HRs […]

[Read more →]

Toronto Releases $8M Man
If you haven’t already heard, the Toronto Blue Jays have released Future Hall of Fame 1B/DH Frank Thomas (long time White Sox, short time A’s & Blue Jays). Blue Jays’ GM J.P. Ricciardi was quoted as saying,
“I don’t know that we have the luxury of waiting two to three months for […]

[Read more →]

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a fair number of major league pitchers (Borkowski, Verlander, Mussina, etc.) are experiencing a drop in their 2008 velocity? Could this mean that more pitchers than we had thought, were on the juice or is this just a coincidence?
Please report in the comments, for research’s […]

[Read more →]

My sister-in-law, Kayla, has been working in South Korea, just south of Seoul, teaching English to elementary age students since October and recently went to her first professional baseball game over there. Here’s a report from Kayla in Korea on Baseball in Korea. Take it away, Kayla!  
The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) is made up of […]

[Read more →]

It’s time to give the set-up men their own statistic again. Let’s reinstate the Major League Hold. After all, ESPN still lists it in their box scores. Seriously though, something needs to be done, statistically speaking, to differentiate a set-up man from a specialist (in just to face one batter). In some cases, a Hold […]

[Read more →]