Here on this 31st day of July, in the year 2007, there are two long months left in the season. For some teams (like my favorite), the end can’t come soon enough; for others, today was a day spent bolstering the roster and upgrading to get ready for the playoff push. At this date and [...]
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From time to time I recommend some sites on here or places to visit in your free time or anything I find interesting having to do with baseball and statistics. Lately, I was made aware of something that is not only interesting and informative, but unequivocally helpful if you are ever looking to do research [...]
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If you know some of my thoughts on baseball, you know I am an RBI skeptic. I admit it, I am not taken aback by massive RBI numbers like so many of our media and fantasy players these days. RBIs, as I hope to show you, are not a very telling statistic, but they so [...]
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I was doing a bit of reading and research on Homerun Translations for something I want to write in the near future, and I came across something talking about Lou Gehrig’s 1927 monster season where he won the unofficial MVP award and finished with a .373 average, 47 HR, 175 RBI, 52 doubles, 18 triples, [...]
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Since it is the All-Star Break, I wanted to take a present-day look AND a look back at my competitive fantasy baseball league, give some updates, and evaluate (in my opinion) each team’s best and worst value picks from the draft back in mid-March. At the beginning of the season, I guessed at what each [...]
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