Spring Training 2008

I have written a short piece for the Spring Training 2008 website hosted by Blogs by Fans about the Astros. You can check it out here, and also click on any of the team logos for a preview of rosters, rotations, and key spring training battles. Spend a few minutes there if you have a [...]

Projecting projections

It seems quite hard to believe, but we are only three weeks from February 2008. And since February is still the month when pitchers and catchers report, we are drawing very close to a new baseball season.
After the first of year, many, MANY websites and media outlets will begin posting predictions and projections for the [...]

If Gwynn played out the 1994 season

In the spring of 1994, I was a skinny 8th grader living in Brussels where I wrote for the school paper for the first time. Being a school with mostly Americans, the paper had a sports section dedicated mainly to American sports, so when I was asked where I wanted to spend my time learning [...]

James’ Cy Young Predictor

A book I received for Christmas and that I often consult and reference is The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers. If you can imagine such a volume, it lists every pitcher on record who has thrown a ball in a Major League game. Beyond that, it lists their relevant statistics, their tendencies, what pitches they threw, [...]

Two months to go, let’s look at teams’ chances

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 [...]