The Waiver Priority: Follow Up and Control Pitchers
Comments on: Fantasy — ... Chris Snyder is a beast. 5 home runs in 41 spring at bats should translate to about 60 bombs this season. Okay, we obviously can’t etch that in stone, but his spring slugging percentage is 455 points higher than his career mark which indicates that Snyder could be primed for a breakout season. ...

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Viva El Birdos —   if you haven’t read Matt Lemmon’s letter from springfield, it’s directly below this post and getting a tremendous reception; recommended reading. here’s my contribution to VEB's opening-day coverage. first of all: if you have any desire to enter the cards’ ...

Let's try this again
New York Yankees Fan Blog — ... a taste test of the chartiable wines being marketed by the Yankees and Red Sox. They concluded the Yankee wines are better. We're not sure what criteria they used, but the study must be flawed, because we all know the Red Sox can whine with the best of 'em. John Dewan took a look at all of the players who met the criteria for a possible breakout year based on a .200 + or better SLG % improvement this spring over their career average. The only Yankee on the list is Robinson Cano , who slugged .696 this spring, and has averaged a .489 SLG % during his career (a .207 ...

Spring Numbers: Meaningless, or COMPLETELY Meaningless?
Fanster.com — "Mentally and physically, I feel great, and that's the important part." -- Doug Davis It's something you hear every year around this time: someone, usually a starting pitcher after a bad outing, disparages the significance of actual numbers put up in spring training. And it's pretty much one of those unwritten rules that they are meaningless. Even the overall record posted by a team is deemed to bear no relation to what they do. When Derek Zumsteg did the math, matchng the 2004 standings for spring training and the regular season, he found a correlation of just -0.05, or as he put it, ...

Spring Numbers: Meaningless, or COMPLETELY Meaningless?
AZ Snakepit — "Mentally and physically, I feel great, and that's the important part." -- Doug Davis It's something you hear every year around this time: someone, usually a starting pitcher after a bad outing, disparages the significance of actual numbers put up in spring training. And it's pretty much one of those unwritten rules that they are meaningless. Even the overall record posted by a team is deemed to bear no relation to what they do. When Derek Zumsteg did the math, matchng the 2004 standings for spring training and the regular season, he found a correlation of just -0.05, or as he put it, ...