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Meet 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, 2009Don't believe the stolen base is dead
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comThe stolen base is far from dead in today's game. Simply put, it's among the many tools used to score runs.
Story | Conversation | April 30, 2009Fewer and fewer writers on the baseball beat
Rob NeyerRussell Adams and Tim Marchman on the suddenly tenuous future of the baseball beat: But throughout the last century, baseball writers have stood above their sportswriting colleagues. When the National...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009Minor league performance usually speaks volumes
Rob NeyerOn Monday, inspired by a reader, I threw out a challenge: Who are some players whose minor league performances gave us no idea of how good they would ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009Computer simulations sometimes offer surprises
Rob NeyerAlan Schwarz on the utility within baseball of computer simulations: Take the age-old question of how much difference a team's lineup order...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009After one game, don't get too crazy about Schafer
Rob Neyer...now, to do anything more than hold his own against major league pitching. His projection according to Baseball Prospectus: .238/.308/.391. We shouldn't be surprised if Schafer betters those numbers, because (1) projections...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009Monday Mendozas
Rob Neyer...that Doug Glanville is back for another season. • From The New Enthusiast, the only 2009 baseball preview you'll need. • Well, except for this one: Rany Jazayerli and I preview the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009Mets should platoon Murphy to begin season
Rob Neyer...him as another Gregg Jefferies or Kevin Maas. Here's the basic problem: As Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster points out, Murphy did exceptionally well when putting the ball in play in the majors, which...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009Didn't take long for pitch-count questions
Rob Neyer...game: It didn't take long for someone to make a ridiculous pitch-count move in the baseball season. Derek Lowe wasn't just retiring the Phillies last night, he was owning them. Cruising along...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009Dukes should start, not sit
Rob Neyer...especially these days -- that we have perfect knowledge. We don't. As anyone who has worked inside baseball can tell you, for every odd thing we hear about, there are a dozen we don't...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009New ballparks never about the public good
Rob Neyer...costs." Which is another way of saying that, no matter how nice these parks are from a baseball and aesthetic and municipal development point of view, it doesn't mean that they represent anything close...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009High hopes for the next baseball flick
Rob Neyer...was thrilled to find that New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott really likes this new baseball movie. Money: The game of baseball, ungoverned by the clock, is notoriously full of surprises, and the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009Sheffield likely won't be better than Tatis for Mets
Rob Neyer...third base than in the outfield. … If true, this is a perfectly beautiful example of a baseball executive weighting past accomplishments more than current performance. Sometimes you get the feeling that if Hank Aaron...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009Keeping an eye on some minor league moves
Rob NeyerSome highlights from Baseball America's latest list of minor league transactions: • The Red Sox signed 29-year-old reliever...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009Mariners lose again: Ulcer disables Ichiro
Rob Neyer...he had a bleeding ulcer. The M's say it's no longer bleeding, but obviously, playing baseball is not in his best interests at the moment. "It was a very difficult decision to place...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
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