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Hardball Times Monthly Archives


July, 2009

Friday, July 31

THT Live: The irony of the Kotchman-LaRoche trade

by Nick Steiner

THT Live: Jake Peavy traded to the Chi-Sox… for real this time

by Nick Steiner

THT Live: How much better does Victor Martinez make the Red Sox?

by Dan Novick

THT Live: Boston makes their move

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: Talking Baseball

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Claudio Vargas, really?

by Jeff Sackmann

THT Live: Errata data

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Munson’s Win Shares

by Dave Studeman

Guarding the lines

by Max Marchi

This annotated week in baseball history: July 26-August 1, 2004

by Richard Barbieri

Cooperstown Confidential: Opening a new book on Munson

by Bruce Markusen

Thursday, July 30

THT Live: Disagreeing with James

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Dodgers strike for top lefty reliever

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Chris Tillman’s debut

by Nick Steiner

THT Live: Team-by-team needs at the MLB trade deadline

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: THT Daily: Manny and Big Papi

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Pirates steal from San Francisco

by Alex Pedicini

Picking up the pace

by Dan Turkenkopf

A treatise on true talent

by David Gassko

What’s past is prologue

by Colin Wyers

TUCK! sez: Guess again

by Tuck

Wednesday, July 29

THT Live: Was the Cliff Lee trade really a win-win?

by Dan Novick

THT Live: Mariners, Pirates make seven-player deal (and M’s chip in another trade)

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Watch out, Mark Buehrle

by Jeff Sackmann

Players worth remembering, 1947-1968

by Geoff Young

A story of Mickey and Jackie

by John Walsh

THT Daily: Perfect is as perfect pitches

by Dave Studeman

Tuesday, July 28

THT Live: Talking curveballs

by Dan Novick

THT Live: The incredible catch that wasn’t

by Paul Singman

THT Live: Matusz on a tear

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: Ten best teams to lose 10 straight

by Chris Jaffe

THT Awards

by John Barten

Brian Bannister’s new approach

by Harry Pavlidis

Monday, July 27

THT Live: Hall of Fame Weekend: Live From Cooperstown on Monday

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: Yankees CF Gardner KO’d with broken thumb

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Worst teams to win 10 straight

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: A late dispatch from the Sportsvision Summit

by Colin Wyers

THT Live: Jason Heyward is good

by Alex Pedicini

THT Dartboard: Week Sixteen

by Matthew Carruth

Best of the second best (part 2)

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Rickey Speaks!

by Chris Jaffe

Scouting the FSL

by Adam Guttridge

Sunday, July 26

THT Live: Hall of Fame Weekend Update: Live From Cooperstown on Sunday

by Bruce Markusen

Saturday, July 25

THT Live: Hall of Fame Weekend Update: Live From Cooperstown on Saturday

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: Breaking: Royals still aren’t good

by Dan Novick

THT Live: And another Batted Ball Report

by Dave Studeman

Here come the ‘Stros

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: Friday’s not-so-minor moves

by Evan Brunell

Friday, July 24

THT Live: Hall of Fame Weekend Update: Live From Cooperstown on Friday

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: A new Holliday in St. Louis

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: What did Mark Buehrle throw?

by Mike Fast

THT Live: The rapid decline of Matt Antonelli

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: Hall of Fame Weekend: Live From Cooperstown

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: Jhoulys Chacin: Future’s Game Pitch f/x

by Nick Steiner

Working the count

by Craig Brown

This annotated week in baseball history: July 19-July 25, 1997

by Richard Barbieri

Cooperstown Confidential: The deadline, defending Old-Timers Day, and Hall of Fame weekend

by Bruce Markusen

THT Daily: Holliday On the Move

by Matthew Carruth

Thursday, July 23

THT Live: Rockies bolster bullpen with Betancourt, Chacin

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Cape Cod Baseball League All Star game today

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: Most Recent 10-game losing streaks for all 30 teams

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Your fun fact for the day

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: My least favorite mistake

by Dave Studeman

Dissecting the DSL

by Jeff Sackmann

A second look at situational pitching

by Colin Wyers

TUCK! sez: Arrgh

by Tuck

THT Daily: Slamming Manny

by Matthew Carruth

Wednesday, July 22

THT Live: A note from a reader on BABIP

by Bryan Tsao

THT Live: Cardinals ship out Duncan for Lugo for no apparent reason

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Chris Duncan traded to the Red Sox for Julio Lugo; somewhere, Dave Duncan is punching a wall

by Nick Steiner

THT Live: Most Recent 10-game winning streaks for all 30 teams

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Is LaRoche answer to Sox’s struggles?

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: Best Dodger team since….

by Chris Jaffe

Getting under it

by Jonathan Hale

BOB:  All Star Game ratings and Cactus League news

by Brian Borawski

The gentle art of prospect promotion

by Geoff Young

THT Daily: Not this time

by Dave Studeman

Tuesday, July 21

THT Live: Musings on Minaya

by Dan Novick

THT Dartboard: Week Fifteen

by Matthew Carruth

THT Live: Philadelphia’s Taylor on the rise

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: 40 games under .500

by Chris Jaffe

Batted ball insanity

by Harry Pavlidis

THT Live: Jason Schmidt makes his 2009 debut

by Nick Steiner

THT Daily: 12-2

by Dave Studeman

Monday, July 20

THT Live: Brewers one step closer to playoffs after Lopez deal

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: San Diego’s Latos Makes Debut

by Alex Pedicini

Best of the second best (part 1)

by Chris Jaffe

THT Daily: Angels pulling away?

by Dave Studeman

Sunday, July 19

THT Live: Padres make another baffling trade

by Evan Brunell

THT Live: New Batted Ball Report

by Dave Studeman

Saturday, July 18

THT Live: Washington’s futility: some historic perspective

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Some Changes

by Dan Novick

THT Live: Homer Bailey still isn’t getting it

by Dan Novick

THT Live: Thank you, Drayton (!?)

by Evan Brunell

THT Daily: 7 RBIs

by Dave Studeman

Friday, July 17

THT Live: Red Sox call it quits with Lugo

by Evan Brunell

Cooperstown Confidential: reviewing the All-Star game

by Bruce Markusen

This annotated week in baseball history: July 12-July 18, 2009

by Richard Barbieri

Thursday, July 16

THT Live: Bill speaks out

by Dave Studeman

Moving past DIPS

by Colin Wyers

Predicting double play rate

by Dan Turkenkopf

THT Daily: Rehabbing

by Matthew Carruth

TUCK! sez: Just say “thanks,” Manny!

by Tuck

Wednesday, July 15

THT Live: Warren’s Wizard

by Steve Treder

THT Live: Pedro in Philadelphia

by Evan Brunell

Players worth remembering, 1969-1989

by Geoff Young

THT Awards

by John Barten

BOB:  Cubs sale news and a haunted house

by Brian Borawski

Tuesday, July 14

THT Live: Dayton Moore and defense

by Dave Studeman

Great news:  I was wrong

by Steve Treder

Lost in Transactions 7/6-7/12/09: Royals not so royal; Bruce hits DL

by Evan Brunell

A view from the Sportvision Baseball Summit

by Harry Pavlidis

Monday, July 13

THT Live: If the hearing were held in front of the 1977 Kansas City Royals

by Dave Studeman

The 2009 Alvin Davis All-Stars

by Chris Jaffe

THT Dartboard: Week Fourteen

by Matthew Carruth

THT Daily: Acta begone

by Dave Studeman

Sunday, July 12

THT Daily: Chicago showdowns

by Dave Studeman

Saturday, July 11

THT Live: New Batted Ball Report

by Dave Studeman

THT Daily: No hitter

by Dave Studeman

Friday, July 10

THT Live: Padre Offensive Woes

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: From PITCHf/x to HITf/x…now GAMEf/x?

by Mike Fast

This annotated week in baseball history: July 5-July 11, 1955

by Richard Barbieri

Card Corner: Jim “Mudcat” Grant and the Baseball Reliquary

by Bruce Markusen

Thursday, July 09

THT Live: Trackman Baseball

by Mike Fast

Fielding stats for college shortstops

by Jeff Sackmann

Evaluating defense using HITf/x

by Colin Wyers

TUCK! sez: Bring your own whine and brew

by Tuck

Wednesday, July 08

BOB: Cubs sale draws near and mid-season attendance

by Brian Borawski

They might run more if they could walk

by Geoff Young

THT Daily: Konerkos wild

by Dave Studeman

Tuesday, July 07

THT Live: A Conversation With Johnny Grubb

by Bruce Markusen

THT Awards

by John Barten

Getting closer to park adjustments for PITCHf/x

by Harry Pavlidis

THT Daily: Marquis pitcher

by Dave Studeman

Monday, July 06

THT Live: Cincy Shellacking

by Chris Jaffe

THT Live: Hang time

by Colin Wyers

THT Live: The Vi flies forever

by Steve Treder

Scouting the FSL

by Adam Guttridge

MLB’s greatest game ever

by Chris Jaffe

THT Dartboard: Week Thirteen

by Matthew Carruth

THT Daily: All-star Wakefield

by Dave Studeman

Saturday, July 04

THT Daily: Here come the ChiSox

by Dave Studeman

Friday, July 03

Master of fooling

by Max Marchi

A conversation with Crazy Horse

by Bruce Markusen

Thursday, July 02

Stacking the middle

by Dan Turkenkopf

Looking back at Satchel Paige

by Dave Studeman

TUCK! sez: Tony’s true tweet

by Tuck

THT Daily: A Saves Milestone

by Matthew Carruth

Wednesday, July 01

THT Live: How reliable is UZR?

by Colin Wyers

Adrian takes a walk

by Geoff Young

THT Daily: HUGE comeback

by Dave Studeman

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