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Below are listed 31 pairs of players. Your job is simply to decide if Player A was more valuable by at least ten runs, Player B was more valuable by at least ten runs, or if the two players were equal in production (within five runs). On your answer sheet, simply put an A, ...
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MLB
Renegade Sabermetric Blog Awards
Personally, I put more stock in these awards than the BBWAA awards. Your winners:
NL MVP: Albert Pujols
NL CY:Tim Lincecum
NL RoY: Geovanny Soto
AL MVP: Sizemore/Mauer tie
AL CY: Cliff Lee
AL RoY: Evan Longoria
Other results of note: Mike ...
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Cliff Lee
Albert Pujols
Evan Longoria
Mike Aviles
Alexei Ramirez
Alex Rodriguez
"Their achilles heel has been getting the big hit in big situations." This phrase has been espoused by announcers on TBS several times over the course of the Red Sox/Angels series. And it is simply untrue. With no one on base, the Angels hit .268/.330/.413, good for a .738 OPS, which was 18th ...
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Los Angeles Angels
This week's featured SBN Award is the Manager of the Year. Frankly I don't have a ton to say about it. Sure, we can theorize that Joe Maddon is a calming influence on his troops, however outside of lineup and bullpen usage we really don't know how much value he possesses. Ned Yost and Dave ...
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MLB
Joe Maddon
Ned Yost
Dusty Baker
Only Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood are meaningful contributors eligible for free agency (sorry Jim Edmonds, Bob Howry, and Henry Blanco.) Given the market (read: insane money) thrown at starters and closers I'm not so sure either will return, although given their special circumstances it's more ...
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Chicago Cubs
Ryan Dempster
Kosuke Fukudome
Milwaukee Brewers
From the Seattle Times we get the following names:
That list could include Kim Ng of the Dodgers, Rick Hahn of the White Sox, Tony LaCava of the Blue Jays, David Forst of the A's, Peter Woodfork of the Diamondbacks, Dan Jennings of Florida, Al Avila of Detroit, Jed Hoyer of the Red Sox and ...
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I've seen it mentioned at least twice elsewhere
that the Baltimore Orioles might non-tender starter and constant
"breakout" pick, Daniel Cabrera. Some might argue that Cabrera's potential is too delicious to lose, but at what point do you just write ...
Chicago (AL) Javier Vazquez v. Tampa Bay James Shields
Milwaukee C.C. Sabathia v. Philadelphia Brett Myers
Los Angeles (NL) Chad Billinsgley v. Chicago (NL) Carlos Zambrano
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Javier Vazquez
Tampa Bay Rays
James Shields
C.C. Sabathia
Brett Myers
Carlos Zambrano
I think we'll just have one thread per day instead of three. Cleans up the cluster of three posts ONLY for gameday threads.
LAD @ CHC
BOS @ LAA
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NLDS
W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2008 - Yovani Gallardo
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24.0
22
5
5
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20
1.88
1.25
W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
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Cole Hamels
NLDS
Yovani Gallardo
Voting is now closed on the 2008 National League MVP, and you all voted Albert Pujols the winner by a huge margin. 242 readers approved of Pujols winning the award, with Lance Berkman second at 93 votes, and Chase Utley third at 70 votes. Unfortunately, PollDaddy doesn't count the ...
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Albert Pujols
Lance Berkman
Chase Utley
Ryan Braun
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Pick your winners: Boston v. Los Angeles of
Anaheim Chicago (AL) v. Tampa Bay Los Angeles v.
Chicago (NL) Milwaukee v. Philadelphia Also something new we're going to try today: game threads. If you don't have a team or just want some snarky ...
There were a few hundred people who cast their ballots for the NL MVP ( voting is still open ) so I figured it would be worthwhile to post a poll for the AL MVP. Once again, we're using approval voting because it's better than just voting for one player and a lot easier to set up than a ...
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Al Reyes
Mark Whicker is one of those . He proves it here .
American League MVP: It was Carlos Quentin's to lose, but he lost it, and now it's a scramble. Well over half the Angels' games were decided by one or two runs, and they were 61-28. They also won 19 one-run games on the road. The steward ...
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Los Angeles Angels
Carlos Quentin
Tampa Bay Rays
Evan Longoria
Alexei Ramirez
[Regarding the experts' lack of ability to predict 2008 team records:] I really can't stress enough how funny it is that [Buster] Olney does worse than just using previous year's record... Here's a guy who probably follows baseball as closely as anyone on the planet, and he isn't adding an ...
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When the St. Louis Cardinals signed Kyle Lohse
to a one year, four million and some change
deal this past spring it was a smart and thrifty move. Yet when they re-signed Lohse to a four years, 41 million dollar extension (with a full no-trade clause) ...
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CC Sabathia began the 2008 season terribly.
After four starts, the large lefty sported a 13.50
ERA through 18 innings, prompting me (and many others) to wonder what’s wrong . As it turned out, either nothing was wrong, or whatever it ...
My last post asked whether a batter is more effective after he fouls off a pitch than when he swings and misses. I examined the question looking back at the plate appearance and assuming each pitch was independent of the previous pitches.
This doesn't appear to be a valid assumption. If David ...
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If you know me in real life or through my old blog, you know that I absolutely love approval voting. Instead of picking one choice out of many, you get to decide yes or no on every candidate, making the winner the player who is accepted by the most voters.
So let's attack the question ...
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Yankees
From Jon Heyman's latest:
The Yankees will likely make a big play for Pirates center fielder Nate McLouth this winter.
The problem with that is, as Sky discussed , the Yankees need defensive help in a big way. McLouth is not a very good defender in center field, whereas ...
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Daniel Cabrera: Not Improving