Fantasy Baseball vs Baseball Reflections
There are 9 open spots (in a 10 team league), first come, first serve, in an ESPN Fantasy Baseball League I am hosting & I am opening it up to our readers to join. It’s a 7×7 Rotisserie style league with a snake Draft on Wednesday night, March 27th at 7:15pm EST. It will be […]
How Is Social Media Impacting the Baseball Industry?
Baseball is one of the most-watched sports in the United States. It’s hard to get more American than going to or watching a baseball game. However, research has shown that millennials are less likely to watch baseball on television — or even show much interest in it. Even ticket sales for games have gone down […]
Book Review: You Herd Me
If you have spent any time watching or listening to sports media over the past decade, you are more than likely familiar with Colin Cowherd. The former ESPN radio voice, and current host of The Herd on FS1 and Fox Sports Radio, Cowherd has been a dominant voice in sports media for many years. In […]
Book Review: Every Day I Fight
By the time of his passing, Stuart Scott may have been the most popular and recognizable face at ESPN. And that’s saying something considering the folks they had on staff at the time. Scott was seen by many as the one who made ESPN, SportsCenter and broadcasting in general “hip”, but he was much more […]
Book Review: The Stark Truth
Who’s the best first baseman ever? Who’s the worst second baseman of all time? What pitcher has a big name, but doesn’t live up to it? Which outfielder is unheralded, but always delivers in the clutch? These are the questions Jayson Stark attempts to answer in his book, The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and […]
Nine Innings/Questions with DoubleG Sports on the Yankees
If you like what you read below, check out more from Charlie Mule at DoubleGSports.com! This is another in the series of articles where I ask fellow bloggers from the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) 9 innings worth of questions about their team. The goal is to do this for as many teams as possible (all 30 would […]
How to Crush your Fantasy Baseball League
By Jared Harris Now that the NBA and NHL seasons are behind us and the NFL is still months away, fantasy baseball is the only thing to get us through the dog days of summer. Fantasy sports leagues are all about bragging rights and I’m here to help you dominate your fantasy baseball league […]
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” Baseball Podcast Named as a Finalist for 2013 Podcast Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Chris McBrien Dear Mr. Fantasy Podcast [email protected] http://www.dmfantasybaseballpodcast.com Barrie, Ontario, October 30, 2013— The 9th Annual Podcast Awards nominations have been announced and the “Dear Mr. Fantasy” baseball podcast has been named a finalist for a 2013 Podcast Award in the Sports category. Other nominees in the category include podcasts produced […]
Going against PECOTA – Pitchers I’m not high on in 2013
Ben Lindbergh from Baseball Prospectus released a piece on ESPN showcasing 10 players projected to have comebacks in 2013 coming off of disappointing 2012 campaigns. The list is stacked with players who either performed below what their peripherals suggested they should, have reasonable sample sizes of minor league production/major league ability without the results, or […]
Book Review: Trading Bases
Every once in a while a book about baseball will come out that is different than all others in the sports section at your local Barnes and Nobles. Joe Peta’s new book Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (not necessarily in that order) is one of those books. Peta, once […]
Apps for Baseball Fans
A guest post by Whitney Adams Many people live, eat, and breathe baseball. They go to every home and away game, they track player’s stats, they have their own fantasy leagues, and they are forever faithful to their home team. While there are some people who don’t understand this, there are others who do and […]
Finding the true meaning of MVP: Analyzing the 2012 AL MVP
A hotly debated topic among my baseball friends has been the discussion of whether or not Miguel Cabrera is the AL MVP. Interestingly, it almost seems like an overwhelming majority of the public thinks that Cabrera MUST win if he wins the triple crown. I saw a poll on ESPN this morning that shows just how brainwashed […]
Josh Hamilton’s Home Run Derby: Legit or Lucky?
With two Silver Sluggers and an Most Valuable Player award, the Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton has always been one of baseball’s elite, but his on-field injuries and off-the-field substances have limited his potential throughout his career. However, you’ve probably heard that 2012 is a completely different story. Through his first 30 games, the Rangers’ outfielder […]
SMALLS TALK: Tito on Baseball Tonight – in over his head?
I love Terry Francona. I think he’s a great manager and an even better guy. I agree that it was time for him to part ways with the Red Sox, but his managerial career at Fenway will be argued as the best of all-time for years to come. As a broadcaster, however… To put […]
Baseball, More Than the Fundamentals
Recently, I was asked to evaluate players for a 13-year-old travel baseball tryout. I was surprisingly impressed and disappointed at the same time. Impressed with the baseball skills that many of the young players displayed, but disappointed with the athleticism of a majority of the kids. Many of the players had good baseball fundamentals, but […]
A Review of…Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
If you are a baseball fan, chances are, you spend countless hours every year following the game you love in some capacity on ESPN. While most currently see ESPN as a sports entertainment giant who is almost too large, just as many probably forget the perilous times when ESPN was first getting […]
Book Review: Arm Chair Reader Grand Slam Baseball: The Lore and Legends of America’s Game
If a sports fan is looking for the perfect reading partner in the bathroom, this book may provide them with just what they are looking for. With over 400 pages of baseball facts, statistics and stories, Grand Slam Baseball is sure to teach even the most knowledgeable of baseball fans a thing or two about […]
MLB.com CEO: Challenges of streaming live baseball to mobile devices
At the Open Mobile Summit (via ZDNet.com) in San Francisco, MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman talks about optimizing mobile applications in a world with network congestion. He says, the company considers file size and network congestion and adjusts bit rates accordingly when streaming live baseball events to its mobile users.
Baseball News, Tweets & More
Image by mikeleeorg via Flickr Tuesday Afternoon Edition First, for those of you who like this segment of the site, please let your voice be heard or else this will probably be one of the last posts of this kind. @ MLB_Monster: Brian McNamee arrives at courthouse to testify before grand jury in Roger Clemens […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More…Wednesday pm
@ESPN_baseball: Source: Beckett eager to get deal wrapped up – http://tinyurl.com/yh3qpj8 [it would be great to get a Beckett deal done before the start of the season and have him, Lackey, Lester & Dice-K locked up with Buchholtz (sp) under team control for a while. What other team could boast a rotation like that under […]
Mark McGwire’s PED Admission: How Truthful Was it?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Admission The other day, former A’s and Cardinals slugging first baseman “finally” admitted to using steroids back in his playing days. But, he only admitted to using them as a health benefit to help him keep from his body breaking down and keep him in the game. He […]
More on hCG and Manny Ramirez
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 […]
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 […]
Free Agents and Possible Trade Bait
Thanks to Tim Dierkes and Co. at MLB Trade Rumors, here’s a few links for those of you who love Hot Stove Baseball talk! Here’s a link to the list of Type A and B Free Agents via ESPN and Keith Law. Here’s a link to the latest rumors regarding the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. […]
