Submit a Story!

Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered Latest Blog Posts

 Add as Favorite Claim Blog Help

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered - Everything Else is Fluff.

Click on the "hype it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.

If you're the owner of Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.

JUMP Back

Published 11 hours ago by Jay Jaffe at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Back at the end of August, our friends at ESPN tasked me with building an MVP predictor in the spirit of a system such as Bill James’ Hall of Fame Monitor , one that awards points for various accomplishments in an attempt to identify who will win as opposed to who should win. Limiting my ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Winter Meetings

Published 2 days ago by Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Normally, I’m making plans to go to the Winter Meetings this time of year. Instead, the Winter Meetings are coming to Indianapolis. I live about ten minutes away from this year’s location so instead of flying, I’ll just drive downtown like any normal day. It figures to be a ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Comment Hiding Behavior Update

Published 3 days ago by Jeff Pease at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

We have updated the Baseball Prospectus Manage Profile page to offer the ability to choose your preferred comment hiding behavior for both the normal article pages and the printed version of the article pages. We have gotten a number of requests from people who were often having to override the ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Thirty Years Ago in the Minor Leagues

Published 3 days ago by Geoff Young at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Among the many reasons to visit your local minor-league ballpark (the charm, the ridiculously cheap seats behind home plate, etc.) is the possibility of witnessing future greatness. Over the years, I have been fortunate enough to catch several big-league stars in action before most people had ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Welcome to the Mainstream

Published 4 days ago by Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Hate mail’s ok. At least that means someone’s reading, right? With today’s announcement of the NL Cy Young voting, I’ve gotten the hate mail without the benefit of some ad impressions. I thought I’d share some. From “Bil”: “You should be ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Player Appreciation: Max Bishop

Published 10 days ago by Geoff Young at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Every now and then, I like to peruse the physical and virtual history books, searching for players I may have forgotten about somewhere along the way. One player I recently stumbled across is Max Bishop , who manned second base for the Philadelphia A’s and Boston Red Sox from 1924 to ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Statistics Update
baseballprospectus.com - 10 days ago
Statistics Update
— baseballprospectus.com — As many of you know we recently experienced some server trouble and have been in the process of rebuilding the statistics reports that were lost in the process. Unfortunately, the situation resulted in the CID numbers that enable users to bookmark ... (more) Statistics Update

Comments vote down Beyond the Box Score found this 10 days agofound this
baseballprospectus.com - 13 days ago
Ridiculous Trade Rumor Open Thread
— baseballprospectus.com — It’s the time of year where we get Ridiculous Trade Rumors (RTR). You know the kind … one fanboy throws up a post about what his team should do, suggests trading mediocre player A and marginal reliever B for some team’s superstar. ... (more) Ridiculous Trade Rumor Open Thread

Comments vote down Lone Star Ball found this 13 days agofound this
What He Said

Published 14 days ago by Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Great take on the Yankees and how the latest Championship is perceived. The chart is brilliant. Another great take on the same thing, inspired by the first one. The “eternal option” is ended . I’d expected that the Sox would go “one more year” and be willing ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Carroll Guide to Sports Injuries

Published 14 days ago by Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

A lot of you … ok, a couple … have asked about a project I hinted at a couple times during the last year. The Carroll Guide to Sports Injuries is almost ready to come out, likely this week. (I’ll add a link over to the Football Outsiders store and to Amazon once it’s ...
BallHype: hype it up!

baseballprospectus.com - 15 days ago
Why Aren’t There More Two-Way Players?
— baseballprospectus.com — I was thinking about Brooks Kieschnick the other day (don’t ask) and got to wondering why more teams don’t employ — or at least try to employ — two-way players, guys who can provide some utility on the mound as well as at ... (more) Why Aren’t There More Two-Way Players?

Comments vote down Beyond the Box Score found this 15 days agofound this
Theo on Hermida

Published 18 days ago by David Laurila at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

When the Red Sox acquired Jeremy Hermida from the Marlins this afternoon, in exchange for young lefthanders Jose Alvarez and Hunter Jones , they brought on board a 25-year-old outfielder whose promise has thus far outshown his production. After a strong 2007 campaign where he hit ...
BallHype: hype it up!

baseballprospectus.com - 18 days ago
27
— baseballprospectus.com — Congratulations, New York Yankees . The team went all-in on an extended strategy based on getting CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira . Say what you will about Brian Cashman or the Steinbrenner family, it worked. It’s the Series that capped ... (more) 27

Comments vote down Diamond Hoggers found this 18 days agofound this
Pregame, Game Six

Published 19 days ago by Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

We were just here, weren’t we? Pedro Martinez taking the mound at Yankee Stadium in the World Series, facing off against the team that became his archenemy in the 2000s, in front of a crowd that hates him as much as it respects him. It feels different, though, and not just because ...
BallHype: hype it up!

baseballprospectus.com - 19 days ago
Weather for Game 6 (and 7?)
— baseballprospectus.com — For tonight: A shortwave trough (upper level disturbance) is moving into the northeast, causing increasing clouds from late afternoon into evening. That will help keep temperatures from falling quickly after sunset. Problem is they only get into ... (more) Weather for Game 6 (and 7?)

Comments vote down Walkoff Walk found this 19 days agofound this
P-p-regame, G-g-game F-f-f-five

Published 21 days ago by Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

This is a notes column that won’t be bulleted because I’m not about to have yet another fight with WordPress over my use of HTML. When you cover these things, you tend to limit your world a bit. Hotel, box, pressers, field, clubhouse if you have access. You don’t get around ...
BallHype: hype it up!

baseballprospectus.com - 21 days ago
Throwing His Weight Around
— baseballprospectus.com — Joe Sheehan texted me, asking if CC Sabathia ’s mechanics were odd. He’d noticed a “loading” maneuver, what Joe described as a small hesitation at the top of his move. That slight pause, more pronounced from the windup, is a ... (more) Throwing His Weight Around

Comments vote down THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball found this 21 days agofound this
Pregame, Game Four

Published 22 days ago by Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Before Game Three, I was thinking about how we really didn’t know what the story was. The World Series was down to a best-of-five, and given the pitching matchups and home-field situation, essentially in the same place where it had stood Wednesday afternoon. From that point, it’s a ...
BallHype: hype it up!

Pregame, Game Three

Published 23 days ago by Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered

Tonight, Andy Pettitte makes the 39th start of his postseason career. In the first 38, he threw 237 1/3 innings with 3.83 ERA and a 154/63 K/ BB ratio. Twenty-four starts, including his last six and nine of his last 10 dating back to the 2003 World Series, have been quality starts. ...
BallHype: hype it up!

baseballprospectus.com - 24 days ago
Jeter’s Bunt
— baseballprospectus.com — This isn’t from me, but from BP editorial intern Stephani Bee, an avowed Yankees fan: When Joe Buck and Tim McCarver agree that it was a bad play, it was indeed a bad play. (We’re still waiting on Chip Caray’s brilliantly ... (more) Jeter’s Bunt

Comments vote down Walkoff Walk found this 24 days agofound this
Page 1 of 2