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Why Dale Murphy is still waiting
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday I was going to write about Edgar Martinez...this category has to be Murphy. If a baseball writer in 1986 had questioned Murphy's Hall...
Blog | December 03, 2009Are Pirates trying to win?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...for the Pirates, but we utilize all of our revenues in an effort to build a winning baseball club by investing in all aspects of the acquisition and development of players. It's easy for...
Blog | December 03, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday's links should be received in the spirit...via e-mail, and explained that Major League Baseball rates media markets in terms of home television...
Blog | December 02, 2009Fisking the Crime Dog's candidacy
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...seasons for a Hall of Famer. But he did win two MVP Awards, he was one of baseball's five best players for about six years running, and he was a fine defensive player in...
Blog | December 01, 2009Latest defector is an umpire
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...1999. He also worked in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and the 2008 Olympics, but Cuba didn...or no apprenticeship in the minors. Generally speaking, today's system makes sense. Because aspiring professional umpires...
Blog | November 30, 2009Vetting the BBWAA's Hall candidates
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...anyone. But I've thought about those guys a lot already, and if I had to vote today I would place checks next to their names and move along to the more difficult decisions. There...
Blog | November 30, 2009Monday Mendozas
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday's links are just a flavor of what...asking me how to get a job in baseball, and my response is always the same: "How...
Blog | November 30, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday's links were tidied up while I wondered...for his odd little moment last summer. From baseball-intellect.com, everything you need to know about...
Blog | November 20, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday's links were compiled while I fantasized about seeing these guys in a televised debate. Or maybe an MMA match ... * FanGraphs' Erik Manning, with a lot of help from Baseball Prospectus, takes...
Blog | November 18, 2009Coghlan vs. McCutchen misses point
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn today's news, Chris Coghlan and Andrew Bailey were...s not clear that he did. Last winter, Baseball America wrote about McCutchen, "He has outstanding speed...
Blog | November 16, 2009Red Sox will never 'rebuild'
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...coming up with Hernandez, like some kind of baseball magician. Chances are, it would not be that...an outlier; otherwise they've been there since today's college sophomores were in kindergarten. The Red...
Blog | November 13, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...s just one sample of hundreds. Also, some baseball things: I know you want to know what...year ago, David Price was almost certainly overrated. Today, he is almost certainly underrated. Fortunately, we've...
Blog | November 13, 2009Saving the Gold Gloves
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...players; that is, no second- or third-place choices. As you probably saw, earlier today I suggested that the Baseball Writers Association of America do its best to put the Gold Gloves out of...
Blog | November 12, 2009Can we replace Gold Gloves?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn the wake of the latest round of atrocities, Friend of the Blog Rany Jazayerli shows up with a welcome and constructive idea: This annual trashi...
Blog | November 12, 2009NL Gold Gloves: 2 out of 9 ain't bad
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotWell, there's nothing truly offensive about the list of National League Gold Glove winners. Rather, it's just the usual laziness that you would expect...
Blog | November 11, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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