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The nation's leading sticks in the mud, the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, are having a vote in a few weeks. Two of them, in fact, one on umpires and managers and the other on executives and pioneers. Marvin Miller, the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association ...
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The Royals' Zack Greinke was a runaway winner in the AL Cy Young voting, which was announced on Tuesday , netting 25 out of 28 first-place votes. Greinke finished with a major league-low 2.16 ERA while striking out 242 hitters in 229.1 innings. His won-loss record was 16-8, certainly ...
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Zack Greinke
Last week, Bronx Banter's Alex Belth put together a three-part series ( one , two , three ) on some of the greatest ledes — the opening sentences or paragraphs of newspaper or magazine articles — in sportswriting history, lines which pack a wallop that's stood the test of time. A student of the ...
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Not a whole lot to report here that hasn't been reported elsewhere. The Hot Stove season is upon us and after busting my butt to cover the postseason, I'm playing catch-up with my allotment of Baseball Prospectus 2010 comments. With my wife out of town on a business trip for a few days, I've ...
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Just before signing off early Thursday morning in the wake of the Yankees' World Series win, the YES network ran a montage set to Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." In my haste to record it, I changed the channel, but was pleased to find it online. Enjoy! Empire State Of Mind Uploaded by ...
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After a night of revelry — I was a one-man dogpile — let's get straight to the opener of today's piece at Baseball Prospectus: Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter may be the Yankees for whom the spotlight shines the brightest, but it was Hideki Matsui who did the dirty work on Wednesday night. ...
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You never know what you're going to get when it comes to A.J. Burnett, a sterling performance like he gave the Yankees in Game Two of the World Series, or an implosion like he gave them in last night's Game Five. Through his first four postseason starts this fall, he'd allowed just eight runs, ...
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New York Yankees
Johnny Damon's mad ninth-inning dash from second to third once he realized no one was covering will go down in the annals of World Series lore, but it was Alex Rodriguez who was the real story last night. From my writeup at Baseball Prospectus: Last night, in the ninth inning of Game Four of the ...
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Johnny Damon
The Yankees pulled ahead in the World Series on Saturday night, two games to one. Andy Pettitte survived an awful second inning, while Cole Hamels fell apart like a cheap watch after a dominating three innings, with Pettitte himself contributing to that via an RBI single amid a three-run ...
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New York Yankees
Andy Pettitte
Attending a postseason game is always a thrill, particularly the later in October the Yankees' run goes. I'm lucky enough to have gotten to go to Yankee Stadium twice in one week, first for the ALCS clincher and then for Thursday night's Game Two of the World Series. It was my first World Series ...
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Pedro Martinez
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Well, Game One of the World Series didn't go so well for the Yankees. From my writeup at Baseball Prospectus: In yesterday's chat , Bronx Banter 's Alex Belth asked me, "Is there any particular pitching match-up that you are looking forward to in the series?" I responded that the matchup I was ...
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New York Yankees
Alex Belth, Cliff Corcoran and I cut a snappy two-part video series for SNY.tv's "Bronx Banter Breakdown" yesterday . Part two, covering the lineups, is now up at Bronx Banter . While you're there, check out Cliff's excellent piece on the 1950 World Series and its future ramificiations: To give ...
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Weather permitting, the World Series begins tonight in the Bronx, and as you'd expect, it's a busy day for me. For starters, I had the honor of previewing the series for Baseball Prospectus, and I gave it a similarly epic-length treatment as the first two rounds. Cutting to the chase, here's ...
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C.C. Sabathia
Alex Belth, Cliff Corcoran and I cut a snappy two-part video series for SNY.tv's "Bronx Banter Breakdown" today. Part one is up at Bronx Banter , and in HD at SNY.tv . One correction to an assertion I made within this video: Pedro Martinez has one postseason start on three days’ rest, in the ...
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Pedro Martinez
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What a night for the Yankees! It wasn't
pretty, but they managed to turn nine singles, nine
walks, two errors, an anxious extra day of waiting due to weather, a sterling 6.1 inning effort from Andy Pettitte and a six-out save from Mariano Rivera into ...
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All week long, I had an assignment hanging over my head that I hoped I wouldn't have to write, at least for another couple of weeks: the Dodgers' edition of the Baseball Prospectus / ESPN Insider "Kiss 'Em Goodbye" series. Alas, with their Game Four meltdown and Game Five beatdown, their number ...
