It is the article everyone is writing, reading, and arguing about. Who to pick for the All-Star Game? The American League has many options on how to go about beating the National League and all of them will work. They are superior in all facets of the game. Here is the team that will best win. Catcher Clearly Should Be In Joe Mauer got himself some power (.394 BA, 14 HR, 42 RBI, 40 R, .467 OBP). Victor Martinez got himself some health (.324 BA, 12 HR, 53 RBI, 49 R, .404 OBP). Too Early to Apologize No need to apologize to anyone seeing as those two are the clear All-Stars. Rod Barrajas was having a honorable mention worthy year until he recently hit a slump and saw his average dip to .268. No apologies for you. Annoying Vote-Getter ESPN Causes Jason Varitek (.229 BA, 11 HR, 29 RBI, 30 R, .321 OBP). Forrest Gump is a better captain than him. Jorge Posada (.272 BA, 9 HR, 29 RBI, 19 R, .359 OBP). How are Varitek and ...
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The Optics of the TV Strike Zone
drunkjaysfans.com 6/26/2009 — This afternoon Deadspin pointed to a great post at Slate about how the vast majority of baseball fans are getting a skewed look at where pitches are crossing the plate, and just how much movement they have on them. Of course, we already knew this, ...
TGIF: 2009 BABIP Leaders and Losers
sportsofboston.com 6/26/2009 — One of my favorite tools for assessing players in fantasy baseball is Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP). A great piece done on BABIP can be found here . To those unfamiliar, here is a brief synopsis:
“Simple logic states that once a ball is hit into play, there is nothing a ...
Links For Friday; Free Agent Busts, Futures Game, Joba Debate, Rollins
mvn.com 6/26/2009 — Here are your links for Friday morning, the last of the week. Enjoy.
Tim Marchman had a great piece on 2009's free agent busts so far, calling Edgar Renteria Willy Taveras the worst contracts from the offseason. I love the way that Marchman opens up the piece:
Free agency is one of ...
Waxing Philosophical
puristbleedspinstripes.com 6/26/2009 — Today is Derek Jeter's 35th birthday. It's kind of strange to think about when he broke in, really, in 1996--thirteen years ago. When Jeter was busy being a rookie, I was busy hiding from my evil fourth grade teacher in the spring, and in the fall learning about the American Revolution in Ms. ...
Rays 10, Phillies 4 —
NYT > Baseball 6/26/2009
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Willy Aybar homered and drove in three runs as a replacement for an injured Evan Longoria on Thursday night, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 10-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the decisive game of a rematch of ...
Screw the All-Star Game: The All-MLB Teams —
Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
The advertisement for the All-Star game shows just how much of a joke that game is. Josh Hamilton and Grady Sizemore garnering lots of votes to play in the game is a joke.
Screw the All-Star game. Who cares about who is the best from each division? ...
