We could also label this post “Who can eventually break Barry Bonds’ career HR record?” or “Up with hope, down with dope,” or something like that, based on what I am going to try to examine. Sometime in June, unless pitchers just start walking him, Barry Lamar Bonds will break Hank Aaron’s all-time homerun record [...]
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So here they are. The three second basemen of my generation. Don’t come to me with your Bret Boones and your Carlos Baergas and your Robby Thompsons. These were the three guys. And before Chase Utley, Rickie Weeks and Howie Kendrick take over as the next generation, I thought it beneficial to see if each [...]
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When it gets to be the end of September or beginning of October, you start to see a lot of papers and media outlets grade players and teams from the previous year based on how they performed the past six months. What I am going to do in this exercise is VERY briefly give a [...]
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This time of year, everyone has their own idea about how the upcoming baseball season is going to shape up (including myself). But what also happens this time of year, is we tend to put a little more stock into what the national or local experts have to say about how our favorite team or [...]
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If you have never been to www.tangotiger.net, I suggest you check it out. It is run by a guy named Tom Tango who has a great knowledge of baseball research, statistical analysis and mathematics. He combines all of these into interesting articles and blogs, and he has even created a few measures such as “Clutch” [...]
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