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Saturday, March 22, 2008Miguel Cabrera Inks 8-Year ExtensionMiguel Cabrera is set to, or has already signed an 8-year, $153.3 million contract that will keep him in Detroit through 2016. Mailbag: Is the NL the fastball league?From reader Kevin K.: In my lifelong love of baseball and its history, there is one axiom that I have never understood: The National League is a fastball league and the American League is a breaking ball league. I have only heard two explanations for this axiom. #1 is that the National League has weaker hitters at the bottom of the order - especially in the 9 hole. This hitters are much more likely to receive a steady diet of fastballs than the bottom of the order hitters in the American League. Obviously, this is connected to the DH rule. #2 is that years ago, most NL cities had spacious pitchers parks while AL cities had cozy hitters parks. Smaller parks meant that whenever it was a hitters count, pitchers would throw nothing but junk to cut down on the risk of the homerun. In the larger NL parks, pitchers felt more comfortable to use the fastball in a hitters count with the confidence that a mistake would still stay in the park. I have no idea if either of these explanations is the real basis for the saying I have heard since I was a kid. More importantly, I am interested to know if there is any truth to the axiom. Has there EVER been any truth to saying? Click for more... Meeting NolanI apologize for linking to the Newberg Report two days in a row, but Jamey Newberg wraps up his Spring Training trip with a nice story about his son meeting Nolan Ryan. The Clutch ProjectTangotiger is the leading proponent of the "wisdom of the crowd" in baseball analysis. His latest project asks people to rate the best clutch hitter on each team. At the end of the season, he'll compare the best overall hitter (his choice) and the best clutch hitter (our choice) to see if the crowd can spot the difference (if there is any). Please go to the site and participate. The bigger the crowd, the more wisdom. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||