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Thursday, March 29, 2007Wall Street Journal AppearanceThe Wall Street Journal's daily sports column, The Daily Fix, asked a bunch of top-notch Internet baseball writers for their 2007 predictions. And they asked me, too. It's entertaining reading despite my best efforts to ruin it, so run on over and check it out. Thursday, March 22, 2007Joe Mauer Injury ProfileSpecial from The Baseball Injury Report Injury:Joe Mauer has been diagnosed with a stress reaction in the fibula in his left leg. A stress reaction is a weakening of the bone and can be a precursor to a stress fracture. The injury process typically goes from a silent stress reaction > stress reaction > stress fracture. A stress reaction of the tibia (aka tibial stress reaction) occurs most often in distance runners and is caused by overuse. The vast majority of tibia stress reactions occur in either the top 1/3 of the tibia (closer to the knee) or the bottom third toward the ankle. It can also be involved with cases of shin splints. Stress reaction injuries to the fibula (the outside bone of the lower leg) are a lot less debilitating because the tibia (the bigger in inner bone of the lower leg) absorbs a large portion of the body’s weight. Since athletic participation on some surfaces can be the cause of the malady, one has to wonder if the hard artificial surface of the Twins home field will impact his recovery early in the season. Click for more... Wednesday, March 21, 2007THT Fantasy League FullSo we've finally filled the THT Fantasy League, and unfortunately, with everything going on, I won't be able to individually email everyone who responded. But I do want to thank you all for your tremendous interest. We got nearly 75 emails, and you all seemed like great people to play with. Anyone who's interested can follow along with the league here. Sunday, March 18, 2007Season Preview UpdateThey say that, in baseball, you have to be able to accept failure (after all, even the best hitters make outs over 60% of the time). Well, the same is true in baseball publishing. We found a couple of mistakes in our projections. Actually, just two pitcher projections were off, which is pretty darn good. But one of them was Francisco Rodriguez of the Angels (the other was Brian Tallet) so we figured we'd better correct them. Also, David has improved his pitcher projection methodology a bit by refining the batted ball regression calculations. So, we've posted a new spreadsheet of projections, under the same URL from which you downloaded the original projections. Just turn to page 11 of your book for details. Also, those of you who bought the first few printed versions of the book probably noticed some weird black type on the cover. If you got one like that, congratulations! Thanks to my screw-up, you've got something that will be a collector's item years from now. Seriously, the cover has been fixed and most of you received a clean version. I just hope Aaron Reynolds doesn't get too mad at me for messing up his awesome cover photo. Monday, March 12, 2007Amy, Amy, Amy ...I love my sister-in-law Amy. She knows it. Oh, come on, I adore her. She knows it. But ... I come home from work on Monday evening at 6:15. My wife hands me her cell phone, with Amy's phone number already punched in, and says, "Amy has a question for you!" So I call Amy. She answers, and cheerily informs me that her Fantasy League draft is this evening -- THIS EVENING! -- at 8 o'clock, and, hey Steve, please tell me, is there any player this year who you would just "have to have" on your team? I ... well, I ... did I mention that I just love Amy? Click for more... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||