Red Sox will never 'rebuild'
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...to eventually let their stars go and replace them with other, younger stars. The Yankees sold Babe Ruth to the Boston Braves, and the Yankees just kept winning World Series. Lou Gehrig got sick...
Blog | November 13, 2009The last time they played...
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...52. Willie Mays missed most of 1952 and all of 1953, and might otherwise have broken Babe Ruth's record before Hank Aaron did. That said, it's not at all clear that Simmons...
Blog | October 27, 2009Is Broxton haunted by ghost?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotBoy, talk about your competing views about Jonathan Broxton's meltdown in Game 4. First, here's Los Angeles' Bill Plaschke: The crack of Jimmy Rolli...
Blog | October 20, 2009Four days of rest is for wimps
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...the new Yankee Stadium, but please: that place has been a lefty hitter's paradise since Babe Ruth's time. The old Yankee Stadium was 295 feet down the right-field line when Ruth...
Blog | October 16, 2009Baseball's top 10 baserunning blunders
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comNick Punto and Carlos Gomez are included on Rob Neyer's list of the top 10 all-time baserunning blunders.
Story | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...It's amazing how excited I can get, just seeing a few new seconds of Babe Ruth actually playing. If only they'd known, back then. In the wake of Kevin Towers...
Blog | October 09, 2009Defending the intentional walk
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotNear the end of Wezenball's argument in favor of the intentional walk, he writes this: It is boring, though, and it does remove some of the excit...
Blog | July 22, 2009David Wright's bizarre numbers
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...baseball this season, and if Wright maintains that pace he will hold the career record, surpassing Babe Ruth's 48.1 percentage compiled in 1923. Ruth struck out a lot, too, but he...
Blog | June 18, 2009Steroid Era gets a little less fun
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...entire careers. In fact, he hit more home runs in those eight seasons (408 homers) than Babe Ruth did in his best eight-year stretch (367, 1920-27). More than Barry Bonds hit in...
Blog | June 17, 2009Justin Upton not the only amazing D'back
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Albert Pujols, Gregg Jefferies, Alex Rodriguez, Bob Horner, Jimmie Foxx, Frank Robinson, Hal Trosky, Joe Mauer, Babe Ruth, Darryl Strawberry, Joe Dimaggio. That list includes eight Hall of Famers, plus a bunch of Hall...
Blog | May 29, 2009Meet the all-time AL All-Stars
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comRob Neyer picks his all-time American League All-Star team since the All-Star era began in 1933.
Story | Conversation | July 09, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob NeyerToday's links were compiled with a heavy heart while struggling with the many ravages of time… • According to Bloomberg, we'll not be favo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 11, 2009Bo, Deion among two-way stars
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comWith the Super Bowl approaching, Rob Neyer assembles an all-star baseball team composed of the best football players.
Story | Conversation | January 29, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob NeyerToday's links have been retrieved from caches spread around the lovely village of Marionville, Missouri … • Preston Gomez died on Tuesday:...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 14, 2009Taking a look at numbers that matter
Rob NeyerOver at Baseball Analysts, Chris Green writes about a certain top Hall of Fame candidate and the numbers we're allowed to use: And so, finally, we c...
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