How Much Did the Astros Really Benefit from Sign-Stealing? With the offseason moving at it’s now customarily glacial pace, the story that’s dominated the baseball headlines for the past week has been the Astros sign-stealing scandal. Since the first story was published by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich at The Athletic last Tuesday, we’ve seen…
DetailsStark: Five things to watch on the 2020 Hall of Fame ballot – The Athletic Read the whole thing.3. Can Walker make a historic leap to Cooperstown? According to Baseball-Reference.co Larry Walker remains hitless in his last 5,161 days on Planet Earth. But because Hall of Fame voting is so frigging weird, that didn’t stop…
DetailsBraves Suddenly Have Good But Aging Bullpen Attentive Braves fans will know not to get their hopes up too much based upon the team’s first early moves. The club got out ahead of the market last year as well, but mostly sat out after making its primary moves. In Alex Anthopoulos’s second year as GM,…
DetailsColorado School of Mines Talk – Bauer Outage Trevor Bauer, and his father, Warren, took a trip to Golden, Colorado to meet with the Colorado School of Mines Sports Analytics Club. In this presentation, they discuss the future of analytics in baseball, how information has changed the game we love, and what they are doing…
DetailsPirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez faces 21 new child sex-related charges Suspended Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Felipe Vazquez is facing 21 new charges after investigators found evidence of child pornography on devices they say Vazquez owned. The new charges filed Tuesday include 10 counts of child pornography, 10 counts of unlawful contact with a minor and…
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Short Relief: Meditations in an Emergency This is a confusing time to be an executive. Smart people do smart things, like gutting the storied franchise with which they have been entrusted, and then total strangers say mean things about them. What gives those strangers the right to be so hurtful? Nothing at all, except for…
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DetailsBP en español: La otra casa de Larry Walker Traducido por Pepe Latorre El Salón de la Fama publicó el pasado lunes los jugadores que la Asociación de Escritores de Béisbol de América podrá votar para su inclusión en dicho Salón. Lo que más destacó fue la ausencia de alguien nuevo que destacara. Derek Jeter…
DetailsGerardo Parra Signs With Japan’s Yomiuri Giants Veteran outfielder Gerardo Parra has reached an agreement to sign a contract with the Yomiuri Giants of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, the Giants announced Wednesday (hat tip: Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker, on Twitter). The Giants have announced the move in a press release on their official web…
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Why Daytona should not be contracted Recently MLB unfolded new plans to contract 42 minor league teams. The made-up reason by MLB is that many MiLB facilities do not live up to today’s standards. One of those teams is the Daytona Tortugas, the A-Advanced affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. This is a plea why Daytona…
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