Greinke takes Cy Young lead!
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Roy Halladay won and Foulke finished seventh. • Also in '03, the Predictor predicted that Mark Prior would win; instead closer Eric Gagne won and Prior finished third. • In 2004, the Predictor...
Blog | September 23, 2009Fixing what ain't (necessarily) broke
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn The New York Times last weekend, Dan Rosenheck wrote about proposals to change the draft. Money quote: The real reason the anti-Boras rants pick ...
Blog | August 28, 2009Five reasons to love baseball
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...keeps batting, and the only thing the defense can do is put in a new pitcher. Mark Prior makes way for Kyle Farnsworth who makes way for Mike Remlinger, all on the hope that...
Blog | August 07, 2009Cubs fumbling first-round picks?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...haven't done much with their first-round draft picks since 2001, when they snagged Mark Prior with the second overall pick. Since then, though? The average bust rate for first round picks...
Blog | June 12, 2009Best pitching prospect(s), ever
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...a bum shoulder. No one took McDonald's consensus best-ever tag until 2001, when Mark Prior of the University of Southern California was such a steely-eyed, bazooka-armed, strike-throwing machine...
Blog | June 08, 2009Strasburg makes his case (again)
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...some point as the greatest college pitcher ever. Just in recent years we've seen Mark Prior and Bryan Bullington and Jered Weaver and Luke Hochevar ... It's not that they shouldn...
Blog | May 11, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer...he means that in a good way). • Jeff Passan's written the definitive piece about Mark Prior's pitching mechanics. And I'll bet you a dollar you're pulling for Prior after...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 13, 2009Jack Wilson's defense worth big money
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...one-year, $8 million option remaining from his prior contract. The Mariners could have bought out that...OPS+ somewhere between 70 and 80 (his career mark is 78, but he's older and he...
Blog | November 13, 2009Should Giants just release Zito?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...A innings is 4.47 ... and a chunk of those Triple-A innings came as a reliever. Prior to this season, Sadowski was not regarded as one of the Giants' 30 best prospects. Will...
Blog | July 16, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...to get there and he's no Mark Buehrle. But he can pitch. • Hey, these...not clear that Gomez is a good prospect. Prior to this season, he wasn't really...
Blog | May 22, 2009Francona not concerned about Ortiz
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...clear during an interview session with the media prior to his team's scheduled game at...re going," he said. Setback for Kotsay Mark Kotsay, on the disabled list since April 4...
Blog | May 04, 2009Getting something from Kearns key for Nationals
Rob Neyer...first base, Dukes can play centerfield and Kearns--prior to the Adam Dunn signing a few weeks...sure there aren't really so many question marks here. Of course Milledge and Dukes have to...
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