Reflections on the 2012 Baltimore Orioles
The true impact of the 2012 Baltimore Orioles won’t be known for several years. What felt like the return of Major League Baseball to Charm City could turn out to be a remarkable run of good fortune. Whether the Orioles simply got lucky, as suggested by Bobby Valentine and Keith Law, or have evolved into […]
Weekly MLB Pitching Review
By SBRForum.com Another edition of the weekly MLB pitching report has arrived, where we take a closer look at the best efforts from the past few days. Our breakdown begins on Saturday, when Clayton Kershaw, Justin Masterson and Jeff Karstens really brought their A games. Kershaw, who has to be a legitimate […]
Factor 12 Leaders: Week 18
The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers on 60ft6in.com. (1) Justin Verlander retains the number one position following a brilliant 14-strikeout game against the vaunted New York Yankees. The 2011 AL Cy Young award winner leads MLB with a 31.294 […]
Factor 12 Leaders: Week 16
The Factor12 Rating (F12) is an analytic measurement utilizing league average performance to compare the value of all MLB pitchers on 60ft6in.com. (1) Justin Verlander retains the number one position despite allowing 5ER on Thursday night against the Cleveland Indians. The 2011 AL Cy Young award winner leads MLB with a 31.105 F12 Rating. […]
MLB Midseason Report
By SBRForum.com We’re past the halfway point of the baseball regular season. Join us as we reflect on the top performers and on which teams have made the most money in MLB odds throughout the first half. In terms of player performances, there’s been one true standout in each league. The AL […]
Book Review: Major League Dads
Is there anything more American than a game of catch between a father and his son? For many, the answer to this question would probably be that the only way to make that vision more American is to have an apple pie sitting in the window of the house next to the yard where the […]
MLB Revenue Sharing: Why doesn’t it seem to work?
When baseball implemented a revenue sharing plan as part of their collective bargaining agreement in 1997, the premise behind the plan was that it would create a more competitive atmosphere between all teams in baseball. So rather than the elite, large market teams such as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox who can […]
Donnie Baseball Hit’s Another Home Run
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toms River, NJ, Apr. 23, 2011—Bob Salomon, Co-Creator and driving force of “A Glove of Their Own,” an award winning book, is pleased to announce Don Mattingly and Mattingly Charities has joined the “Glove Team.” Mattingly, or Donnie Baseball, as he is so often referred to as is a lifelong […]
Pinstripe Defection: A Book Review
David vs. Goliath stories never get old and sometimes it feels like the public has heard all of the ones worth hearing. Author Clay McKinney teaches readers there’s at least one more relatively unknown story out there that pits the little guy versus the big guy in a big way. In “Pinstripe Defection: A Small […]
2011 Yankees Preview From a Lady Who Loves Pinstripes
From messy negotiations with the Captain; to ace Cliff Lee choosing brotherly love over the big apple; to waving goodbye to one of the Core Four; the New York Yankees off-season seemed to be in the news for all the wrong reasons. The only legit move was signing reliever Rafael Soriano, but even that became […]
Cliff Lee (Almost) Traded to Yankees?!!!
Lee becomes 9th Yankee on AL All-Star team Mariners receive prospect package with Jesus Montero as the centerpiece The most talked-about sweepstakes at the trade deadline this year is coming to a close. THUH-UH-UH-UH—YANKEES WIN! Despite missing the first month of the season with an abdominal strain, LHP Cliff Lee places 4th among pitchers in […]
New York Yankees…Just buying another Championship
THE YANKEES BUY CHAMPIONSHIPS. It is JUST THAT SIMPLE. The New York Yankees’ payroll is $206 million. That number may not mean much to you, but chew on this: the Yankees’ payroll is $44 million more than the next highest team (Red Sox). That DIFFERENCE between the Yankees and the second highest payroll is higher […]
IS HANLEY THE MARLINS’ FIRST FRANCHISE PLAYER?
The most ominous reminder is right along the rafters of Sun Life Stadium. Decorating the ballpark are tributes to countless athletes who’ve graced Miami with their greatness. There’s Dan Marino, Bob Griese, Paul Warfield, Dwight Stephenson, and on and on. They all have one thing in common. Not a single one of them played for […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More: Wednesday pm
Image by mikeleeorg via Flickr Wednesday Afternoon Edition @MLB_Monster: Maddon still supporting Burrell (source: CBS News): Rays manager Joe Maddon says he isn’t concerned about DH Pat B… http://bit.ly/cdNV6H & Butler not letting up this spring (source: CBS News): Royals 1B Billy Butler, who broke out with a .314 batting av… http://bit.ly/alEKR1 & MLB — […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More: Wednesday pm
Wednesday Afternoon Edition @ ESPN_baseball: Josh Reddick's story – http://tinyurl.com/yh7qwxo (Red Sox OF prospect) @ JCRMarlinsbeat: Florida Marlins: Josh Johnson told to watch his mouth; Derrick Turnbow done? http://goo.gl/fb/SONt @ mlbtraderumors: Odds & Ends: Washburn, Michael Garciaparra, Byrd http://bit.ly/dnaj2k #mlb & White Sox Release Daniel Cabrera, Jason Botts http://bit.ly/bC07qJ #mlb & PRO Rumors: Michael Garciaparra, […]
The Oendan: The Japanese Baseball Fan Club
“What I was amazed, bewildered, and never, never surprised at was the love that the Japanese people have for the game of baseball. It’s mindboggling. It’s not to be understood . . . in a normal way. It’s abnormal.” When Bobby Valentine made the above remark about Japanese baseball fans at an event at New […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More: Friday pm
Friday Afternoon Edition Starting today, March 12, 2010 and running through Monday, March 22, 2010 is a charity auction for a good cause promoted by MLB Umpires! See they aren’t bad guys after all! J Just kidding! It’s called UMPS CARE Charities and it’s the official charity of Major League Baseball umpires. Their website is […]
Moneyball: Where Are They Now
Cover via Amazon Since Moneyball was released for publication in 2003 I thought it would be fun to see where some of the players mentioned in the book were in their careers six years later. Jeremy Brown Brown only played in five games back in 2006 for the A’s between September 1st and the end […]
The Top 10 Fantasy 2B of 2009
Image via Wikipedia These weekly posts of mine will be based on a rotisserie format using a traditional 5×5 scoring system to keep things simple. Personally I prefer more statistics in my leagues (which is why I was the commissioner in one of my leagues), but in order to reach the most readers we will […]
The Secret of Mariano Rivera’s Success
Image via Wikipedia He’s A Christian! But he wasn’t always a Christian, people never are…not from birth anyway. Furhtermore, there is a moment in every Christian’s life where they have made a choice to follow the path God has planned for them. For some, it’s as clear as day, but for others, it’s a gradual […]
Touch: A Woman’s Point of View
My Touch Obsession by guest writer Lori Thompson It started in June 2007. My once yearly trip to a Mariner’s game was going to happen in a couple of months and just didn’t want to wear the same gray/blue men’s baseball shirt that I’d worn the last four years. I was looking for something new. […]
San Diego Padres Off Season Report
Season Wrap Up Like most of the NL West, the Padres had a disappointing 2008 season going 63-99, the third worst record in baseball last season! Who would have thought that the Giants would finish higher than San Diego at Spring Training last year? I for one did not even think it possible. Granted, 2008 […]