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Is Adam Dunn the New Jeter? Or, is Leadership Inversely Proportional to Defense?
Well, the torch has been passed. After years of being lamented by the evil ol' mainstream media (and predictably celebrated by the self-styled Noam Chomskys of baseball, the bloggers) for his strikeou...
Not putting the ball in play
Taking a look at what teams do when they don't put the ball in play showed me something fairly interesting. Not putting the ball in play ends up in 1 of 3 possibilities: Walk, Strike Out o...
It Was Eleven Years Ago Today: Cubs vs. Astros, Wednesday 5/6, 7:05 CT
Normally, the 11th anniversary of anything isn't reason to give the occasion a mention. However, eleven years ago today, Kerry Wood struck out 20 Astros at Wrigley Field. I mention this not because of...
Sunshine, Day Baseball Don't Help: Cubs Walk Ten, Give Up Ten To Arizona, Get Shut Out 10-0
Look at it this way: it's April 29, 20 games into the season, and the Cubs don't have to go back to Chase Field again this year. Well, unless it's the playoffs and in that case I think we'd all be hap...
White Sox Walk All Over Kazmir, Rays
Twice Ozzie Guillen has penciled Brent Lillibridge atop the lineup against a lefty, and twice Lillibridge has drawn a 4-pitch leadoff walk. Amazingly, after posting a dismal 24-1 K/BB mark this spring...
Quentin, Konerko, Dye Slug Sox Over Tigers
You can't call the White Sox 10-6 victory over the Tigers boring. There were milestone homers, two of them, back-to-back; an injury at the Sox shallowest position, and a once-every-thousand games pitc...
Jim Souhan is TRYING to get our blood pressure up
Jim Souhan, of the Star Tribune, wrote a column for the baseball preview section that appeared in today's paper. Titled "Short and sweet gives way to long and bor-r-r-ing," it decrys players who...
Old and New Money(Ball): Walks versus Defense
Did you hear about that book Moneyball Billy Beane wrote about how all he does is draft college players and acquire guys who walk alot, and how he doesn't care about defense, makeup, scouts, and how h...
Walks: TFA!
Walks are great. I love walks because walks (a) avoid outs and (b) clog bases and, with all due respect to those who use it as a pejorative, clogging the bases is a good thing. Many of my favorite all...
Eight Bad Pitches: Cubs 2, Astros 4
Len Kasper said it best, right after Hunter Pence hit the grand slam that held up for Houston's 4-2 win over the Cubs last night. It wasn't "one bad pitch", as is often said when an opposing player hi...
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