Kneejerk Reactions: Game 6
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...in six runs to essentially beat the Phillies all by his lonesome. It might not be the greatest World Series game by a Yankee, but it might wind up being the best game ever by...
Blog | November 04, 2009Chase Utley: Great ... or Greatest?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...ve been as big a cheerleader for Chase Utley as anyone these last few years. But the greatest second baseman, ever? Beginning with the obvious ... Mr. Utley is on pace to have more hits than...
Blog | November 04, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...and buys a baseball franchise). * Johnny Damon's one-man double steal? It wasn't just the greatest play in World Series history. It was the most incredible athletic feat in the history of humankind...
Blog | November 04, 2009Smackdown: Big Machine vs. Little
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...impressive figures in the history of professional baseball, the result of one of the five or six greatest collections of talent that's ever been assembled. Like I said: if the Phillies win the World...
Blog | October 24, 2009What's next for the Dodgers?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...are pretty well set for next season, with one real exception: The rotation is the area of greatest uncertainty. Left-hander Clayton Kershaw, who started Game 1 of the NLCS, is back, as is righty...
Blog | October 22, 2009Rockies' O'Dowd gets new deal
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...tenured general manager in baseball, behind only Brian Sabean, Billy Beane and Brian Cashman.Is this the greatest comeback in general managerial history? In O'Dowd's first seven seasons running the Rockies, they never...
Blog | October 21, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...of these things we can actually predict beforehand. • It didn't make my list of greatest baserunning blunders because it was inconsequential, but Jon Miller's call of the worst baserunning in...
Blog | October 14, 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
Who will pass the Zorilla test?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...in major league history. As is, Mauer's '09 ranks with Mike Piazza's greatest hits among the best campaigns ever put up by a catcher. Ben Zobrist was even better. I...
Blog | October 08, 2009Is Molina the Giants' greatest catcher?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotBengie Molina's the best catcher in the 52-year history of the San Francisco Giants? John Shea thinks he might be: These may be the final days in...
Blog | September 30, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotToday's links commemorate Kyle Farnsworth, The Greatest Pitcher Who Ever Lived ... • As someone somewhere noted, if you're going to listen to...
Blog | September 30, 2009A good year for first basemen
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...certainly not one of them. Lee, who turned 34 a few weeks ago, is enjoying the second-greatest season of his career. And while I don't suppose it's a huge surprise...
Blog | September 25, 2009What's next for the Giants?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...12 million per year for three more years? Because in 2007, Rowand put together one of the greatest salary drives we've seen. And because a lot of teams were spending crazy money that...
Blog | September 24, 2009As great as Greinke is ...
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Pedro was worth something like +10 wins over the 1999 season. If it's not the greatest pitcher season of all time, it's in the discussion. Tuesday night after Greinke knocked a...
Blog | September 23, 2009With Greinke, why stop at Cy Young?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...and precious little anywhere else. But one significant implication of FanGraphs' overall valuations is that the greatest pitchers are every bit as valuable as the greatest hitters. Tim Lincecum is worth exactly as much...
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