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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.
Akadema Professional: They make what the pros use for baseball and softball.
iFungo: They are a distributor to the pros and those who…
Miller-McCune on Baseball
In a March 16th 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”
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
This Just In…Rice is IN!
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I just got the e-mail from Boston.com, Jim Rice (my favorite player growing up), in his last year of eligibility, was finally elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the BWAA!
Here’s the story on the election of Rice and Rickey Henderson (in his first year of eligibility) from ESPN. The date of the ceremony, according to the ESPN article is as follows, “The pair will be inducted into the Hall…
MLB Awards: How Did We Do with our Predictions?
Here’s a list of the recently assigned MLB awards and how Baseball Reflections fared in predicting them.
We at Baseball Reflections were right on with selecting Rays 3B Evan Longoria as the hands down choice. But in all fairness, this wasn’t difficult to predict. No one else even came close to Longoria in 2008.
The award went to Cubs catcher Geovany Soto, but we picked Braves SP Jair…
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Your purchase helps the site financially as a small portion of each sale goes directly towards funding the webhosting of this blog. The displaying of these products helps to get the word out about the site. Yes, you could actually help us to promote…
Boston Forces Game 7 in the ALCS Against the Rays
Josh Beckett out performed James “Big Game” Shields to get the win in game 6 and for the second year in a row, have come back from being down 3 games to 1 and force a deciding game 7.
In tomorrow’s match up we have Boston’s new Ace of the staff, Jon Lester going up against the Rays # 3 starter in Matt Garza who pitched very well in game 3.
But,…
Pete’s Preview and Prediction of the ALCS
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Right off the bat, you have to mention the injuries. Boston is without 3B Mike Lowell and Tampa is without closer Troy Percival. Boston’s replacement on the roster goes to RP Mike Timlin, while Tampa has added SP Edwin Jackson.
On…
Pete’s Preview and Prediction of the NLCS
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Let me start off by saying that according to the numbers, this should be an exciting series and a sweep would be extremely disappointing. I expect this to go 6 or 7 games!
I think that the top 6 hitters…
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Baseball Links Exchange
Here are some links from the blogs that cover the 8 teams in the 2008 playoff scene…
LA Angels of Anaheim
Halos Heaven (SB Nation)
Los Angeles Blog of Anaheim
Chicago Cubs
Bleed Cubbie Blue (SB Nation)
Cub Town (Baseball Toaster)
Tampa Bay Rays
Outs Per Swing/Rays Anatomy (MVN)
Rays index
Boston Red Sox
Fire Brand of the American League (MVN)
Sox Addict.org
Philadelphia Phillies
Chicago White Sox
Milwaukee Brewers
Brew Crew Ball (SB Nation)
Brewers Bar (MVN)
LA Dodgers
Dodger Thoughts (Baseball Toaster)
Sons of Steve Garvey
Phillies, Dodgers and Red Sox All Take Game 1
Phillies vs. Brewers
Behind the arm of Ace Cole Hammels andd the bat of 2B Chase Utley, with a little help from a Brewers error, the Phillies took game one. In game two, will CC Sabathia be too tired to pitch deep into this game after pitching on short rest 4 starts in a row? If history is to repeat itself, then the Brewers should have looked at last year’s ALCS where CC looked…
Pete Previews the AL & NL Divisional Series
Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies
I like both teams here, but I have to pick one. I’m not impressed with either team’s bullpen and I have to give the edge to the Brewers with their starting pitching, especially if Gallardo can pitch like he did last year. Catching, 1B, SS and 3B are just about even, but the Phillieshave the edge at 2B and closer. The Brewers have the edge in the OF corners…
Baseball Links Exchange
This week I’d like to introduce to you a unique baseball blog called Jimmy Scott’s High & Tight. This is a fictional bog done by a man by the name of David Philp. On the site, he portrays Jimmy Scott, a fictional former star baseball player nearing the end of his career and trying to figure out what he’s going to do with the rest of his life. So he…
Baseball Links Exchange
This week’s edition of Baseball Links Exchange is on Seamheads.com which is an authorized baseball blog of the Baseball Digest Daily which is a part of Fantasyplayers.com and the Fantasy Players Network.
I came across Seamheads.com on Facebook through the site’s founder/writer Mike Lynch.
The following write up is from the Seamhead’s About Us page.
Mike Lynch has been a baseball fan since he was old enough to hold a bat and ball (actually I have…
Baseball Links Exchange
This week’s edition of the link exchange brings you a blog out of the NL East. A blog that covers the Braves of Atlanta, many years after they departed Boston as the Boston Braves. I bring to you, The Launching Pad.
This blog was founded by JB in Atlanta out a passion for baseball, the Braves, and connecting with other fans of the greatest game in the world. The Launching Pad boasts to…
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