baybridgebaseball.com - 1/25/2009
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I had this theory about Coors Field. Everyone knows the players who play there don't do as well on the road as at home, but it's not just because of what happens in Colorado after you hit the ball. It's also because of what happens after the pitcher throws the ball. Curve balls and sliders don't ...
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com - 1/25/2009
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I know it's early and there is so
much that can change from now until 2010, but...
the early signs are obvious. Matt Holliday or Jason Bay will be with the Yankees in 2010. I know, total speculation. There is no unnamed source or friend of either guy that I am basing my guess off of. Instead, I ...
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Next Great Yankee?
baseballreflections.com - 1/19/2009
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Season Wrap Up Like most of the NL
West, the Rockies had a disappointing 2008 season going...
74 and 88 after being in the World Series the previous October. On top of that, they lost second year SS Troy Tulowitzki to injury for a big part of the year, missing 61 games and 1B Todd Helton ...
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Colorado Rockies Off Season Report
denverpost.com - 1/21/2009
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Interesting tidbit about Rockies hitters on road
Purple Row —
Interesting tidbit about Rockies hitters on road
I write a blog about the A's, and this is specifically about Matt Holliday, but I think you'll find in interesting and applicable to all Rockies hitters.
Sunday bytes: 49ers woo Raiders, Oregon State rises, Holliday stats…
Kawakami —
... people have said about him over the years–give him a big deal and BD doesn’t care about much any more. Theoretical question: If Davis hadn’t opted-out of his $17.8M deal with the Warriors this year, do you think he’d be semi-tanking it this obviously? I don’t think so, not with Stephen Jackson able to hold him a bit accountable and maybe not with Don Nelson, though you never know on that one. But it’s an interesting thought. Mike Dunleavy Sr. might want to hear your thoughts on it. * Fletch with some great stats on Matt Holliday’s home/road splits . Some big-numbers hitters, ...
Rocky Road
baseballmusings.com —
... Via Purple Row, Bay Bridge Baseball does some interesting research on Matt Holliday:
The point to all this is that you can't just take Matt Holliday's career splits (.357 at Coors Field and .281 on the road) and say: "Well, he's really a .281 hitter." That .281 average is the sum of a lot of games in which Holliday was trying to get acclimated to sea-level pitching. In theory, if you took Holliday (or any Colorado hitter) and put him at sea level all the time, he'd be a much better hitter than he was wearing the Rockies' road grays.
So if my ...
Rox hangover effect
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
Matt Holliday.
MGL did one a long long while ago. It’s a real effect. I’d be interested to see the gap in pre-Humidor and post-Humidor. This would have a placebo-type effect. The players may THINK there is a Coors effect post-Humidor, but they don’t know (or didn’t early on) that the Humidor depressed scoring. I’ve love to see year-to-year data from someone on this. If there’s no takers, I may take it on…
Monday Mendozas
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Today's links were discovered while I drove around in circles : • A whole book , really? Looks like a whole lot of nothing, to me.• On the other hand, this one looks pretty good . I think I know what I'll be reading next week.• Bay Bridge Baseball's Jeff Fletcher looks at Matt Holliday 's road performance (as a Rockie) and winds up with a healthy note of optimism for A's fans.• Another -- and perhaps better -- way of looking at strikeouts .• As you probably heard, Billy Werber died last week . FanGraphs' Eric Seidman recently ...
The Most Important Matt Holliday Info You Need
FakeTeams —
... For those wanting to draft Oakland A's outfielder Matt Holliday as the game's top outfilder this season, you must read Bay Bridge Baseball's The Great Matt Holliday Experiment. You will be convinced there is nothing to worry about in Holliday's transition from Coors Field to the less friendly confines of Oakland. ...
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purplerow.com 2/6/2009 — ARE YOU READY FOR A CHALLENGE!!!???!?
Kidding.., kidding.., I'm not sure what this year's Snakepit challenge will be that we'll inevitably lose, but I'm sure it will be a doozy. Today, though, I have something that most people will probably think ...
A’s Grab Holliday
fangraphs.com 11/11/2008 — The off-season is officially underway, as thanks to the always entertaining and somewhat unpredictable Billy Beane , we’ve got our first big trade of the winter. While all the details aren’t known as of yet, pretty much every big media ...
No Holliday Outage Out West
mvn.com 3/7/2009 — We are always told that spring training numbers don't mean anything. Even if the ballplayer's name we see in the box score is someone we have never heard of, we start doing our homework to figure out who this player is. This is what is special about spring training. Even though it's just the ...
Matt Holliday – The Coors Effect
behindtheplatefantasy.com 2/9/2009 — A perennial first- rounder has left the friendly confines of Coors Field to join the Oakland Athletics. He is also leaving behind a line-up that includes strong hitters like Garret Atkins and Troy Tulowitzki to join a line-up that includes... well pretty much no one. It will be very ...
Guide Preview: Colorado Rockies
wezen-ball.blogspot.com 2/26/2009 — The Colorado Rockies are the next team up in our guide preview lineup. Two years ago, the Rockies rode one of the greatest hot streaks of all-time into the Fall Classic, before getting swept away by the Red Sox. The immense success of that team led many to predict big things for the Rockies last ...
Mount Rockmore Selections
bugsandcranks.com 2/13/2009 — The folks at the Rocky Mountain News are asking Rockies fans to help them select the four greatest players in franchise history .
Those selected will then be ‘carved’ onto “Mount Rockmore” by cartoonist Drew Litton.
This ...
Matt Holliday Rumors: Wednesday
mlbtraderumors.com 11/5/2008 — According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post , there is too much momentum toward a Matt Holliday trade for the Rockies to turn back now. Sherman figures a deal could go down in December. He notes the Rockies' appreciation of Yankees ...
A's Reportedly Acquire Matt Holliday
sharapovasthigh.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — The A's reportedly acquire All-Star outfielder Matt Holliday from the Rockies. No word on what the Rockies are getting in return, but the names Carlos Gonzalez, Huston Street, and Greg Smith being floated around.
Matt Holliday vs. Scott Boras vs. Tulo
sharapovasthigh.blogspot.com 12/20/2008 — Very interesting stuff on how Matt Holliday apparently said he had a 6 year, 96 million deal done with the Rockies, but Scott Boras hopped in and things changed. Holliday told Troy Tulotwitzki via text message that a deal was done, next day Boras and him tell the Rox no deal.
Rockies will listen to Holliday offers
denverpost.com 10/30/2008 — While the preference would be to trade infielder Garrett Atkins to land a starting pitcher, the Rockies have made it known to opposing executives that Matt Holliday is available.
The Great Matt Holliday Experiment —
Bleacher Report - MLB 1/25/2009
I had this theory about Coors Field. Everyone knows the players who play there don't do as well on the road as at home, but it's not just because of what happens in Colorado after you hit the ball. It's also because of what happens after the pitcher ...
