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Hardball Times Monthly Archives


April, 2008

Wednesday, April 30

THT Live: Ten Essential Baseball Books:  The Sequel

by Steve Treder

THT Live: Ten Essential Baseball Books

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Better gloves in Houston

by THT Staff

THT Live: Hopefully the Phillies won’t need hitting help

by THT Staff

Say hello to Nationals Park

by John Beamer

John Gibbons must go…

by John Brattain

TUCK! sez: Yeah, right…

by Tuck

Jack Cust: No such thing as a free lunch

by Mike Fast

Tuesday, April 29

THT Live: Joel Zumaya’s Driveline Mechanics

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Dan Levitt Interview

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Wang’s Outlook

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Life After Barry

by Dave Studeman

Player spotlight: Ryan Theriot

by Derek Carty

The 10 worst No. 3 hitters since 1957

by Steve Treder

Anatomy of a player: Randy Johnson

by Josh Kalk

Fantasy Mailbag: Sizemore, Bedard, Garko

by Tim Dierkes

Monday, April 28

THT Live: Six Straight

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Up There Hacking

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Bad Starts

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Counts and Walks

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Extraordinary HBPs

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: WPA on team pages

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: The 2-0 Walk

by Dave Studeman

Franchise Managerial Hiring Tendencies

by Chris Jaffe

Sunday, April 27

THT Live: Impressive?

by Brandon Isleib

THT Live: Report from China

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Davey Johnson speaks

by Dave Studeman

THT Dartboard: April 27, 2008

by Matthew Carruth

Waiver Wire: National League (Week 4)

by Derek Carty

Waiver Wire: American League (Week 4)

by Derek Carty

Saturday, April 26

THT Live: Great fielding graphs

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: How has Liriano’s delivery changed?

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Judging Zumaya

by Dave Studeman

Friday, April 25

THT Live: How bad does Clement’s defense have to be?

by David Gassko

Trade strategy: Feigning weakness

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Bavasi Strikes Again

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Kansas City Shuffle

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Ron Washington on Hot Seat?

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: What’s Pat made of?

by Dave Studeman

This annotated week in baseball history: April 20-April 26, 1937

by Richard Barbieri

The Pujols Awards: Week 16

by John Brattain

THT Daily: Sizzling Lee

by Dave Studeman

Thursday, April 24

THT Live: Do some types of pitchers get more calls?

by David Gassko

THT Live: Frank Thomas to the A’s, Mariners fans disappointed

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Dodger Stadium Renovation

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Garland not missing bats

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Big Hurt back in Oakland

by Sal Baxamusa

THT Live: You’ll drink Gatorade and like it!

by THT Staff

THT Live: The Wayne Krivsky Era

by THT Staff

THT Live: An open letter to Bud Black

by THT Staff

How much is your team worth, 2008

by John Beamer

The future of Yovani Gallardo

by Alex Eisenberg

Ten things I learned from the THT Team page

by Dave Studeman

Wednesday, April 23

A hidden dent in Frank Thomas’s value?

by Derek Carty

THT Awards Week 3

by John Barten

THT Live: Pat Jordan and Alex Belth

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Way more than you wanted on retired numbers!

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Frank Thomas to A’s?

by THT Staff

THT Live: How to beat Boston

by THT Staff

THT Live: Jocketty new Reds GM

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Tigers changing stripes

by THT Staff

THT Live: The 2001 World Series is now on DVD

by THT Staff

THT Live: Pujols: Walk this Way

by Chris Neault

THT Live: The 10 best baseball songs…

by THT Staff

TUCK! sez: Memo to ESPN

by Tuck

Frank Thomas’ release could lay a “Big Hurt” on MLB…

by John Brattain

THT Daily: Hot Hitting

by Dave Studeman

Tuesday, April 22

THT Live: Streaking Cubs

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Is Thomas done?

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Where runs come from

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Cashman should bolt

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Jose Vidro’s slow start

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Frank Thomas or Carlos Delgado?

by Dave Studeman

Interview: Matthew Berry of ESPN

by Derek Carty

Anatomy of the A’s

by Jeff Sackmann

Filling the Mickey Vernon gaps (Volume 4)

by Steve Treder

Do relief pitchers suffer from pitching back-to-back days?

by Josh Kalk

Bases and outs ad nauseum

by Brandon Heipp

Monday, April 21

THT Live: The Draft

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: What is wrong with Jose Valverde?

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Philosophical Pitch f/x thought of the day

by David Gassko

THT Live: Moving On Without Them

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Not Quite Right

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Under the Radar

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Bad Moves

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: That’s a Lot of Hot Dogs

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Disabled in Detroit

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Not Classy San Diego

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: McGriff and McGwire

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Fielding Disappointments

by Dave Studeman

How fast should a fastball be?

by John Walsh

Joe Posnanski Interview

by Chris Jaffe

Sunday, April 20

THT Dartboard: April 20, 2008

by Matthew Carruth

Waiver Wire: National League (Week 3)

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Releasing Thomas

by Dave Studeman

Waiver Wire: American League (Week 3)

by Derek Carty

Saturday, April 19

When do stats become meaningful?

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Benching Thomas

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Banny Log

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: More Longoria

by Dave Studeman

THT Awards Week 2

by John Barten

THT Live: Jordan’s Best

by Steve Treder

THT Live: D-backs On Deck

by Dave Studeman

Friday, April 18

THT Live: More on Longoria

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: April ciphers, P.S.

by Brandon Isleib

THT Live: Sabathia’s Missing Sliders

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Wow. Longoria Inks 9-Year Deal.

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: That was a looooong game

by Sal Baxamusa

Flying out of the gate

by Craig Brown

The Pujols Awards: Week 15

by John Brattain

In the beginning God created heaven and earth…

by Paul Nyman

Fantasy mailbag: Greinke, Hawpe, Niemann

by Tim Dierkes

Thursday, April 17

THT Live: Dan Fox

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Miguel Tejada is 33, not 31.

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Use and abuse

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Attanasio’s investment pays off

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Carlos Villanueva

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: I Love the World

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Reyes returns to normal

by Dave Studeman

Ten things I didn’t know last week

by Dave Studeman

Changing on the fly

by Tom M. Tango

The benefit of batting eighth

by Jeff Sackmann

April ciphers

by Brandon Isleib

Wednesday, April 16

THT Live: A silver lining in SF

by THT Staff

THT Live: “The Simple Life” starring Carl Pavano

by THT Staff

Erik Bedard - Windup Worries

by Chris Neault

The myth of avoiding “pitcher risk”

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Mariner batters are in no hurry

by THT Staff

THT Live: Slow-motion train wreck

by THT Staff

THT Live: The best-hitting pitching staff in the AL

by THT Staff

Big changes? Big deal!

by John Brattain

BOB:  Union and Players Agree On New Joint Drug Agreement

by Brian Borawski

TUCK! sez: Thanks, David Stern…

by Tuck

Tuesday, April 15

THT Live: Pedro out a couple months

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Brewers finalizing Weaver

by Bryan Tsao

How will ball tracking analysis change the game?

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Pitching Mechanics: Clay Buchholz

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Fouls balls

by Dave Studeman

Superdupersubs (Part 1: 1901-1940)

by Steve Treder

Anatomy of a player: Brian Bannister

by Josh Kalk

Monday, April 14

THT Live: Liriano’s stuff

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Unsustainability

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Oh the Horror

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Temporary Position

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Welcome Back Kapler

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Love the Rays

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Greg Maddux is awesome

by Bryan Tsao

The baseball economist

by John Beamer

Radar gun readings: sabermetric building blocks?

by Sal Baxamusa

Cubdom’s great lost opportunity

by Chris Jaffe

Sunday, April 13

THT Dartboard: April 13, 2008

by Matthew Carruth

Waiver Wire: National League (Week 2)

by Derek Carty

Waiver Wire: American League (Week 2)

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Dusty Baker’s lineups aren’t half bad

by Dave Studeman

Saturday, April 12

THT Live: Chien-Ming Wang’s mechanics

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Is history about to be made?

by Dave Studeman

Friday, April 11

Fantasy roundtable: When to push the panic button

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Spring Shocker! Harden to DL

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Zito booed at Giants Opener

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Marlins Money

by Matthew Carruth

Fun with batting average

by Derek Carty

THT Live: Hilarious

by David Gassko

THT Live: Knuckleballs and timing

by David Gassko

The Pujols Awards: Week 14

by John Brattain

Fantasy mailbag: Lilly, Kemp, Quentin

by Tim Dierkes

A bridge too far

by Paul Nyman

The Paul Nyman interview

by Dave Studeman

This annotated week in baseball history: April 6-April 12, 1946

by Richard Barbieri

Thursday, April 10

THT Live: Real-time pitch identification?

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Star Trek sabermetrics

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Miller told to grip it and rip it

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Picking Apart the Draft: 2001

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Write for FanGraphs, get paid

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Rays confidence index

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Carmona gets 7-year deal

by THT Staff

Player spotlight: Mark Reynolds

by Derek Carty

Does Trevor Hoffman struggle in non-save situations?

by Geoff Young

Testing my career projection system

by David Gassko

Hitting prospects to watch in 2008

by Alex Eisenberg

Wednesday, April 09

THT Live: Clutch Ichiro

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Reasking: are umpires biased?

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Power in the nine spot

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Jordan Schafer and HGH

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Tom Hicks is wondering

by THT Staff

THT Live: How to tell you’re alive, test no. 17

by THT Staff

THT Live: MLB TV territorial map

by THT Staff

How many home runs?

by Victor Wang

BOB: Minor League News Galore

by Brian Borawski

See windmill ... tilt at windmill ... rinse, lather, repeat

by John Brattain

Scouting the scouts

by Jeff Sackmann

TUCK! sez: Gigantic mess

by Tuck

Tuesday, April 08

THT Live: Hard-en to Believe its the Plane

by Chris Neault

THT Live: Split City

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Harden scratched from start

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: A-Rod to shortstop?

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Fantasy - Pick up Speier

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: White Sox notes

by Dave Studeman

The 10 worst No. 2 hitters since 1957

by Steve Treder

THT Awards: Week 1

by John Barten

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