baseballanalysts.com - 12/18/2008
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Great article on Rice's HOF candidacy and the use (or non-use) of statistics in examining players from different eras.
baseballanalysts.com - 12/12/2008
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baseballanalysts.com —
Every year as the Hall-of-Fame vote nears, the
debates over certain players intensify. As part of this...
tradition over the last few years, you can set your watch to a Dan Shaughnessy mail-in supporting the candidacy of Jim Rice . Shaughnessy's case ...
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Shaughnessy At It Again
joeposnanski.com - 12/19/2008
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joeposnanski.com —
I was reading this fine Christopher D. Green
article on Baseball Analysts about Jim Rice and the...
Hall of Fame, it really clicked something for me, something I’d been thinking about for a while. So while it may seem this way, this really is not ...
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Walks and Fumbles
outincenterfield.com - 12/12/2008
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outincenterfield.com —
Earlier tonight, the Red Sox hosted a press
conference and party to reveal the new uniforms and...
logos for the team. I was fortunate enough to be on hand for the festivities, and now I'm reporting in for duty with all the on-the-spot details. The ...
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Reporting In From Game On
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The Baseball Analysts: Green: Jim Rice, the Hall of Fame, and the Numbers
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The Baseball Analysts: Green: Jim Rice, the Hall of Fame, and the Numbers Torn from the pages of today’s SABR-L listings! The Jim Rice/HOF war rages on! Of all the personal testimonials honoring Jim Rice, my favorite is that of the much-beloved late commissioner of baseball, Bart Giamatti, who once wrote that Rice was “the Hammer of God sent to scourge the Yankees.”[1] That alone, in the minds of many baseball fans (outside of New York), should be enough to let Rice through the gates of the game’s Valhalla, Cooperstown’s Hall of Fame. But, alas, Jim has stuck out 14 times ...
Taking a look at numbers that matter
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Posted by Rob Neyer Over at Baseball Analysts, Chris Green writes about a certain top Hall of Fame candidate and the numbers we're allowed to use: I'm trying to keep an open mind, but it's not easy. No, I don't mean about Jim Rice. It's easy for me to keep an open mind about a player, because a player's record can be analyzed objectively with tools that are always changing, so I have to be willing to change my mind. I don't think it's likely that you'll be able to convince me in 10 years that Rice is a worthy Hall of Famer. But I would be foolish to discount the ...
Walks and Fumbles
Joe Posnanski —
... I was reading this fine Christopher D. Green article on Baseball Analysts about Jim Rice and the Hall of Fame, it really clicked something for me, something I’d been thinking about for a while. So while it may seem this way, this really is not another Jim Rice Hall of Fame blog post. I’m sure it will read that way, but I really hope to have a larger point that tackles the same question that I think Green was tackling in his piece: ...
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Double for Sandberg —
Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs :: 12/18/2008
Ryne Sandberg's managing career is taking another step forward -- and perhaps a step closer to Wrigley Field someday -- with his promotion to manage the Cubs' Class AA affiliate. Sandberg, who managed the Class A Peoria Chiefs the last two seasons, ...
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