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Is 2012 MVP a Lost Battle in Two-Front WAR?

Posted in Baseball, MLB, sabermetrics on November 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Has sabermetrics lost the WAR? Or, is resistance to the movement’s flagship statistic a two-front battle that is no longer worth fighting? For the past several years, “sabermetricians” and “traditionalists” have battled over the relative importance of different statistics, with the award season being the most frequent battleground. In 2010, the SABR crowd won a [...]

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Blue Jays, Marlins Blockbuster Makes Baseball Sense, Raises Financial Questions for Both Teams

Posted in Baseball, Hot Stove, MLB, Trades, tagged , on November 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Not long ago, the Miami Marlins were breaking ground on a new stadium. Now, they are breaking up their team. Yesterday, the Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays pulled off a blockbuster, 12-player deal that would make members of a fantasy league blush. No stranger to a fire sale, the Marlins again decided to unload their [...]

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Napoli, Youkilis Have Right Stuff for Yankees

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, Free Agents, Hot Stove, MLB, Roster Analysis, Yankees on November 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

What is the Yankees’ greatest area of need this off season? Finding a replacement for Nick Swisher in right field? How about a right handed DH to replace Andruw Jones or an offensive-oriented catcher to either replace or supplement Russell Martin? With Mark Teixeira becoming increasingly injury prone and Alex Rodriguez’ ability to play a [...]

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Answering the Call: A Veterans Day All Star Team

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , on November 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The following was originally published on November 11, 2010. Baseball and the United States military have been closely intertwined since the days of the Civil War, both in myth and reality. Even if the game wasn’t really invented by Major General Abner Doubleday (ahem, Mr. Selig), a hero of Fort Sumter, the hundreds of baseball [...]

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Players, Yankees To Benefit Most from New Free Agency Rules

Posted in Baseball, CBA, Draft, Free Agents, Hot Stove, MLB, Yankees on November 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) When the details of baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement were revealed last year, it looked as if the players’ association made most of the concessions, albeit ones that impacted amateurs not yet in the union. However, less than two weeks into the off season, that no longer [...]

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Luxury Tax Getting Right of Way as Yanks Search for Swisher’s Replacement

Posted in Baseball, Free Agents, Hot Stove, MLB, Roster Analysis, Yankees on November 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

In Spring Training, the big question for the Yankees will be whether Brett Gardner and Curtis Granderson switch places in left and center. Before they get to that point, however, the Yankees first need to determine who will stand alongside them in right, and at what cost? One of the Yankees’ biggest advantages over the [...]

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Pushing an Agenda at Baseball’s GM Meetings

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Rulebook, Umpires on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Now that the county has moved past the distraction of a presidential election, it can get back to the important business of its national pastime. From today until Friday, major league baseball’s general managers will convene in California to discuss some important rule changes and, perhaps, a trade or two along the way. Instant replay [...]

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