Author Archive for Peter Schiller

Akadema® Unveils The Patriot Series

Happy Independence Day!

Seeing that Baseball is our national past time, I am thrilled to endorse Akadema® Professional: A leading baseball and softball equipment based out of Hawthorne, NJ! They make the gloves that players such as the Phillies CF Shane Victorino, the Dodgers LF Manny Ramirez, and Team USA Softball P Monica Abbott (just to name a few). They even are endorsed by a few Hall of Famersin C Gary Carter,…

Friday Night Links

In this edition of Friday Night Links, we return to our main focus for this series…promoting other sites that we like or think that you should look into. In this edition we will be focusing on Baseball and general sports equipment sites.

Sports Diamond.com: a general sport equipment site that focuses on baseball and softball.

http://www.sportsdiamond.com/

Akadema Professional: They make what the pros use for baseball and softball.

http://www.akademapro.com/

iFungo: They are a distributor to the pros and those who…

Friday Night Links

It is out of regret that we have to use this section to once again announce the departure of 2 more writers, but we do have 2 additional writing coming on board, but he will not (as of yet) be covering a specific team.

The two gentlemen who will be leaving us are Tony DeMarco who has been writing our Reflections on the Rockies reports just couldn’t keep up writing for his paid…

Miller-McCune on Baseball

In a March 16^th article in Miller-McCune online, Tom Jacobs wrote about the possible bias in baseball, pop-ups and economics. The article was titled, “Race Ball: Our National Pastime?“.

I found the first section on race to be inconclusive as the dates they researched were from three different date ranges 1954-1968, early 70’s to early 80’s and All Star voting from 1990 to 2000. In my opinion, since the author starts out…

Amazon VOD “SPACEMAN: A BASEBALL ODYSSEY”

Another One Bites The Dust

In yesterday’s New York Times, Michael S. Schmidt reported that “Sammy Sosa…is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year“.  Sosa is now the second name to be leaked from that 2003 test of players. In recent months, it has been mentioned that the results of this test were suppose to be…

May’s Hottest Hitters By Position

Sorry about this, but due to the fact that I gave Nick the week off from his weekly Fantasy Focus and my vacation that I am currently on, this will be a little short.

Here are the top hitters by position for the month of May. I will also provide my personal opinion as to each player’s ability to maintain this numbers for the months to come.

C…

Friday Night Links

This edition of Friday Night Links will once again act as a site update for the departure and addition of writers and their sites.

First, we have recently seen the departure of The Zoner (White Sox writer) from Zoner Sports and Kurt (Tigers writer) from Mack Avenue Tigers. If you liked their work here, please continue to read them at their own sites.

Thanks to Rex at i94 Sports, his colleague there, WIK will now…

Interleague Play Q&A

Back on December 8, 2008 I posted a 10 question interview session that I conducted with 6 other baseball bloggers about their thoughts concerning Interleague play.

With the first Interleague series of the year going this weekend I thought it would be a good time to post this link to it for your amusement! Enjoy!

http://baseballreflections.com/2008/12/08/an-interview-of-baseball-bloggers-on-interleague-play/

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April’s Top 9 Hitters By Position

Here’s a look at the top players per position for the month of April. We have included the top 3 outfielders rather than list them by LF, CF & RF. Admittedly this is a little late and next month I’ll try to get this to you quicker, but for now, I hope you enjoy this look back into April’s hot starters.

The top hitting catcher was Indian’s Victor Martinez after an injury…

Friday Night Links

This evenings edition of Friday Night Links will coincide with a site update. First, we have a few new writers to introduce to you all, bringing us closer to covering every major league team.

First up, in no particular order, are the guys from MVN’s Pirate Revolution, mainly Cory Hume. Anything from the MVN (Most Valuable Network) is worth reading if you ask me and Pirate Revolution definitely falls under that category so please…

More on hCG and Manny Ramirez

Suspended for 50 Games

For those of you that read about Manny obtaining hCg from a doctor for a “personal issue”, here’s a thorough article from ESPN on hCG that should be an eye opener.

Here’s an update on Manny’s suspension from the ESPN article:

ESPN.com reported later Thursday that baseball’s drug testing revealed that Ramirez had an elevated level of testosterone from an artificial source in his body, although that is not the reason for…

Trouble in Mannywood

Suspended for 50 Games

Both the LA Times and ESPN have reported today that the biggest name player to be suspended to date in Major League Baseball is now Dodgers LF Manny Ramirez. MLB made the announcement shortly after 12 noon and here is the official press release.

Here are some details on the monetary affect this will have on Ramirez from the Times article, written by By Bill Shaikin and Dylan Hernandez (Times Staff Writers).

The…

Red Sox Reflections After 25 games

After 25 games, the Red Sox found themselves with an 11 game winning streak and neck and neck for first place, with the Blue Jays who have 2 more games in hand than the Sox (both are wins).

During the first few weeks of the season, we have seen the injury bug hit SS Jed Lowrie, SP Daisuke Matsuzaka and OF Rocco Baldeli.

The Rotation

We have also seen great starts be Jon Lester,…

A Compilation of Baseball Reflection’s Interviews

For those of you who were not reading Baseball Reflections in the early days, or are recent patrons of the site, I have gathered a listing of all of the interviews I have done for the site over the first 18 months of our existence. They are listed in the order in which they were first posted on this site.

Back on December 15, 2007, I interviewed Sooze from BabesLoveBaseball concerning the drama…

Friday Night Links

Here is another set of links to some of our friends in the Blogosphere. Please be sure to check them out & tell ‘em Baseball Reflections sent ya!

First on our list tonight would be Gear Up For Sports. They cover Baseball, Football and Basketball, but not all teams are currently being covered. So, if you know of anyone who can fill in any of those holes, be sure to contact…

A Tribute to Harry Kalas

Here are some stories/memories people have submitted to me of Phillies announcer Harry Kalas after his death on Tuesday at the age of 73.

Please feel free to add to this list at any time this summer either by e-mail or in the comments of this post…I hope you enjoy this…

Daniel from C70 at the Bat wrote this:

In 2002, Cardinal fans lost Jack Buck after a lengthy illness.  Even though we all knew Jack was going…

MLB Predictions By the Numbers

The Miller-McCune article by Tom Jacobs that I am referencing today is a mathematical copyrighted model created to predict divisional outcomes in Major League Baseball. The article is entitled, “Baseball’s Best Teams Are…2009 Edition” which you can read in it’s entirety by following the previously provided link.

This model was created by associate professor of mathematical sciences and associate dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Bruce Bukiet,…

Friday Night Links

I thought we should start showing some gratitude to some of our friends in the blogosphere by adding a new segment to Baseball Reflections called, “Friday Night Links”!

We will post link to Baseball Reflections friends and sites we think are worthy to share with you, our beloved readers, hopefully on a weekly basis (when possible).

So, without further ado, here are a few links we think you should check out!

Our friend from…

Did Manny Ramirez Use PED’s in 2004?

According to the Yankee’s blog Sliding Into Home in their post earlier today; former major league ballplayer and steroid expert, Jose Canseco says Manny (Ramirez) cheated and he said he was 90% sure that Manny is on that 2004 PED-user list that leaked A-Rod’s name this spring.
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In the article, Canseco alludes to the fact that Manny didn’t get the desired long-term contract that he & his agent Scott Boras sought because teams…

Hello Goodbye: A Site Update

It’s been a while since I’ve introduced a few of our writers and in the past I have done so before they actually posted on the site. But, I guess I’m just a little rusty, it IS spring training after all. So, without further adieu, here are the latest to have agreed to write on the site:

Daniel Shoptaw comes to us from his site C70 At the Bat and you can find…

A Case for Sabermetrics

In the past few months I have been gathering monthly author for Baseball Reflections so that I could write on a more relaxed basis and produce more detailed work. This article is the first postto that effect. A version of it was previously posted over at RBI Magazine back on March 12th.

Over the winter people had been wondering if David Ortiz was on the decline given the year he…

WBC: To Be or Not To Be?

That is the question! I can understand the financial benefit of MLB’s marketing the WBC to the overseas market. From a marketing standpoint, it’s a brilliant move (especially in Asia), but domestically it has major issues to contend with. Position players aren’t, in my opinion, affected much by the extra work because they’d be playing anyway and a few extra innings shouldn’t hurt them. But pitchers are only throwing a few…

Another Writers Update

I wanted to send out an official site update announcing our newest writers.

From the site Baseball Evolution , we have Asher who participated in my post/interview on InterLeague Play and Keith . Asher will write monthly reflections on both the Rays and the Cubs. Keith will reflect upon the Diamondbacks. We are now just 1 team shy from full AL East coverage (O’s).

Kurt from Mack Ave Tigers will also be writing for us. That’s 2…