November 8, 2009
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008Prospects or suspects (Part 2)Rich Lederer runs down some more slow starting prospects. At this point, it's probably too soon to draw strong conclusions from stat lines, but it's nonetheless always great to have more coverage of prospects, especially from sharp baseball minds like Rich's. Fenway and no-hittersThe way Joe Posnanski writes it's better than being there. The firing that wasn’tBrew Crew Ball does a great job of breaking down how the "Ned Yost is fired" story got started. To briefly summarize the great investigative work done there, a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel read an apparently bogus rumor on a random blog that gets no traffic, and then blogged about it himself on his Journal-Sentinel blog. The story was subsequently picked up by local and national news outlets. A couple years ago I wrote a paper on how there despite their best efforts, it's basically impossible for newspapers to fact check everything, and at the risk of stereotyping, I'm going to guess that the J-S reporter is not as savvy about evaluating the information trustworthiness of things on the internet, as aren't many people his (presumed) age. This probably isn't an original thought, but I bet that accounts for a lot of the backlash against blogs in the so-called mainstream media—the people in the mainstream media today have a hard time distinguishing "good" blogs from "bad" blogs. M’s top prospect, Triunfel, suspended mysteriouslyThe shortstop prospect has been suspended indefinitely by the organization and what's most perplexing is that no one seems to know why. Best Record MiscellaniesIn the wild-card era, 66 percent of all teams that have had the best record in their league on any day from May 1 onward have made the playoffs. When the Rays tied the Angels on May 13 for best AL record, it marked the earliest time in the wild-card era that all the teams leading a league after May 1 could not make the playoffs (the other two teams are the A's and Red Sox; because of division alignment, they can't all make it). It's shaping up to be quite a wild year. Click for more... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||