November 21, 2009
Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT. Most Recent Comments
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008Falling Off the Padres BandwagonGeoff Young chimes in with a tome breaking down the Padres slow start this season and the fans' reaction. Definitely a great read. Joba gets Gossip Girl mentionIs baseball still America's game or what? Cubs fans not excited about EdmondsThe opening quote says it all: "OH… NO! I feel like crying right now." What’s wrong with Verlander?Eric Seidman takes a look over at FanGraphs. Tigers fans might not be happy. Seidman identifies the main culprit as being a decrease in strikeout rate and an increase in walk rate, and attributes it to a decrease in average fastball velocity from 94.8 mph to 93.0 mph. While it seems as good an explanation as any, I'm not convinced that 2 mph would make such a big difference, though I definitely don't know a lot about such things. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Tavarez is relieved of duty by the Red SoxThis short Boston Globe piece on Julian Tavarez gives an interesting little slice of life for baseball players, describing how rookie Craig Hansen found out that he was staying with the Red Sox when Tavarez started walking around the hotel dining room saying good bye to his former teammates. I always find it interesting to read these little snippets about what it's like to be a baseball player. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||