HR/F With BABIP 2004-09: Adrian Gonzalez
FakeTeams — ... 0.196 BA/BIP 0.346 Jim Edmonds ...

A Q&A with Jonah Keri
Beyond the Box Score — ... potentially being qualified for the hall of fame. This go me to thinking about contemporary players who should be in the conversation. The best I could come up with is Larry Walker and Jim Edmonds. Outside of ...

Career WAR Trifecta Quiz
Beyond the Box Score — ... of 5 WAR.  That aside, here are the ten sets of players.  Who has the most career WAR? Rickey Henderson, Mike Schmidt, Mickey Mantle Nolan Ryan, Phil Niekro, Bert Blyleven Robin Yount, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski Tom Seaver, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux Curt Schilling, John Smoltz, Chipper Jones Albert Pujols, Frank Thomas, Ryne Sandberg Andruw Jones, Jim Edmonds, Ken Griffey Jr. Chuck Finley, Luis Gonzalez, Jim ...

Return Of The Prodigals: Cubs vs. Indians Preview, Friday 6/19, 1:20 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... on the Cleveland roster, I presume they will get warm and loud ovations on first appearance. Think back to last year when Jim Edmonds made his first appearance in St. Louis as a Cub -- and consider that Cardinal fans were cheering for a player wearing the uniform of their most hated rival. Edmonds received a standing ovation, then it was back to business. I would expect nothing less for ...

Cubs Play With Hart, Lose To Braves Anyway 4-1
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... To me, that's a no-brainer Jim Edmonds type of move -- it costs you only the minimum salary; if he's bad you just cut him, and if he's good you have a solid performer for almost no money. Do it, Jim Hendry. This team needs bullpen help badly. ...

Hanley Ramirez's All-Star Bash
FishStripes — Hanley Ramirez and Evan Longoria are throwing a bash in St. Louis. On Locust Street, at Jim Edmonds' 15 Restaurant, they'll be hosting two star studded parties. --- On Tuesday, Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins, and Evan Longoria of the Rays are hosting a bash for their charities. It's the only player party that's open to the public. A ten dollar donation at the door is all it costs.  On Tuesday?  That is the day of the ...

The Home Run Derby, or, Take Good Care of My Hombre
Viva El Birdos — ... But even speaking as someone who had to watch Jim Edmonds's beautiful first half numbers get dulled by an ugly post-Derby 2003, I've convinced myself that I don't need to be any more worried than usual when I watch Albert Pujols tonight. Here's how I'm rationalizing it; I hope my tools for serenity now are useful to everybody else who watches Albert Pujols with wide, nervous-twitching eyes.  ...

Players That Know How to Fight a WAR Defensively
Beyond the Box Score — ... 50 10 Andy Van Slyke 3.57 50 11 Ken Griffey 2.38 50 12 Jim Edmonds 2.76 47 13 Ellis ...

It's a Holliday in St. Louis
The Crawfish Boxes — ... That number alone makes Holliday a formidable foe. Seeing him wearing the number 15 last night reminded me that I still really, really, really hate Jim Edmonds. ...

Talk With A Pirate Day
AZ Snakepit — ... with more batting average and walks, or Jim Edmonds with lots of steals and a bit less power. Reading over what I've just written makes me think I'm sounding like a homer, but I don't care. I've spent five years writing withering opinions of mediocre players. Andrew McCutchen is not a mediocre player. ...

Guest Post: Happy Birthday, Edgar Renteria
Viva El Birdos — ... are simply too far away to make any real projections. Jim Edmonds will be a case study in defense + small window of amazing offense + steroids era. ...

Twelve Over
Viva El Birdos — ... , Jim Edmonds, Scott Rolen, and Chris Carpenter. They had played exactly 100 games and they were sixteen games over .500. They really shouldn't have been; their Pythagorean record was closer to 52-48. From that day forward they had, if you watched Baseball Tonight, Albert Pujols Is All Alone in That Lineup, Scott Rolen Whose Shoulder Might Just Fall Off Every Day Now, and Is Jim Edmonds Still Playing?, and they underplayed their Pythag, did it so spectacularly that only one team in the National League could claim to do so badly over the rest of ...

Baseball Stadiums And You
True Blue LA — ... :  I have been to a total of four games at Camden Yards, and truthfully none of them really stand out as memorable games, but the park is awesome.  This game was a 2-0 Angel win, behind home runs from Chili Davis and Jim Edmonds, but I mostly picked this game because I forgot ...

Who ARE These Guys? - Cubs vs. Pirates Preview, Friday 8/14, 1:20 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... Charlie Morton will be making his second career start against the Cubs. He started a game for the Braves against the Cubs a year and a day ago on August 13, 2008. He didn't make it out of the third inning. The big blow off him was a home run by Jim Edmonds -- remember him? Geovany Soto hit a two-run double off Morton. Randy Wells started and defeated the Pirates on July 1 in Pittsburgh, but the Pirates have remade their team since then. Three of the starting eight that day aren't on the Pirates ...

Should The Cubs Sign John Smoltz?
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... This would be a Jim Edmonds-type move, signing a player who appears to be, as I put it last year, "D-O-N-E done", for a pro-rated portion of the major league minimum salary -- with about 1/4 of the season remaining, it would be a little over $100,000. That's less than half of one bleacher crowd. ...

Reds Avoid Sweep With 4-1 Victory Over Pirates
Bucs Dugout — ... two minor league stops in his entire career, and this year he's struggling to top .300.  The problem, right now, is that LaRoche lacks power, and Walker lacks on-base ability. (Combine LaRoche's on-base ability with Walker's power and you'd have a pretty good player.) Unfortunately for Walker, good OBP ability can sometimes provide a foundation for power to develop, but the opposite isn't true. Guys who have good OBP as young players--think of Nate McLouth here, or Jim Edmonds, or Brian Giles, or Kevin Youkilis--often ...

TUESDAY ANGELS ROUNDUP: Vlad Guerrero Likes Seattle, Angels Bring Up Five
Halos Heaven — ... ' 33 RBI in August broke Bobby Bonds' club record for the month (31, August 1977) and fell one short of the Angels' club record for any month shared by Don Baylor (July 1979) and Jim Edmonds (July 1995). Morales was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles Monday, his fourth consecutive multi-hit game during which he has gone 12-for-17. ...

A Numerologist's Dream -- 09/09/09: Cubs vs. Pirates Preview, Wednesday 9/9, 11:35 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... PITTSBURGH -- If you are into such things, here are the Cubs' results for the four "numerologist dates" in this decade (they didn't play on 04/04/04): 08/08/08: Defeated Cardinals at Wrigley Field 3-2. Jim Edmonds hit two homers. 07/07/07: Defeated Pirates at Pittsburgh 7-1. Ted Lilly threw 7.1 strong innings. 06/06/06: Lost to Astros 7-1 at Houston. Nuff said, except that the 2006 team was horrible and probably would have lost no matter what the date was. ...

Chris Young - wherefore from here?
AZ Snakepit — ... and included comments like perennial All-Star and so on. As of a couple years ago, he looked like his ceiling might be someone like Jim Edmonds and he likely was going to at least be a 10-15 year regular who made a few AS teams. Um, now it doesn't look quite so rosy. ...

At Least They Can't Clinch This Weekend: Cubs vs. Cardinals, Friday 9/18, 7:15 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... wouldn't get a good reception returning to St. Louis. I beg to differ. When Jim Edmonds made his first appearance in St. Louis last year in a Cub uniform, he got a standing ovation. Taguchi, who was a good contributor as a bench player to two Cardinals World Series teams (and another WS winner last year in Philadelphia), would probably get warmly welcomed. He's not part of the Cubs' future, obviously, but maybe he can give the slumping ...

How will Zobrist Fare Following the 7 Win WAR?
DRaysBay — ... 55.4 8.3 2004   2.9 Jim Edmonds 56.4 8.1 2004 6.4 ...

Hall of Fame WAR Path: Center Field - Graph of the Day
Beyond the Box Score — Click to Enlarge.   Today, a graph by numbers. (continued) #. Name (Lifetime WAR) - Years through 2008 1. Kenny Lofton (67.2) - 17 - Makes an excellent case for himself, following the path of an HoFer to the end. 2. Jim Edmonds (67.7) - 16 - This chart says he should be in the HoF. Do you buy it? 3. Andruw Jones (57.8) - 13 - A nice, non-HoF arc. 4. Carlos Beltran (50.8) - 11 - If he played in KC for his entire career, he...no. I will ...

Three Series
Viva El Birdos — ... It is a relief to know that no team will ever be my new favorites again. Some time in August, probably, it clicked, and I knew that when checked off all the stereotypical old-fan tropes it would be in this team's emply—Jim Edmonds had the Most Beautiful Home Run Swing Ever, ...