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One museum at a time

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

There are two baseball museums that every fan should visit. Oddly, one is in upstate New York and the other's in Kansas City, Mo. Of course you know a...

Blog | November 26, 2009

Friday Filberts

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Today's links were tidied up while I wondered if even the great Tim Lincecum could strike out Superman ... Yesterday was a strange day, especially...

Blog | November 20, 2009

Are teams really losing money?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...s saying that baseball doesn't operate in a vacuum. When the economy's hurting, so are MLB's revenues. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that a few teams really did lose money...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Digging into Cy balloting

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Let's dig into the Cy Young balloting, shall we? Two voters, Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law of ESPN.com, did not include Chris...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Do both Cy Youngs signal shift?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

It's just one year. I'm not quite ready to declare that the paradigm has shifted. As I wrote a few months ago, Bill James' method to predict Cy You...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Will October sked really be tightened?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Hey, it turns out that Mike Scioscia wasn't the only baseball man who thought this year's postseason schedule was screwy. Bud Selig does, too! "We'r...

Blog | November 19, 2009

A's going young in 2010

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

It looks like a fairly boring winter for the A's, at least if you believe Billy Beane ... In other words, he's staying the course that he set a coup...

Blog | November 19, 2009

Hot stove myths (or not)

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

From our old friend J.C. Bradbury -- here writing for the Huffington Post -- come four hot-stove myths: 1. GMs can buy low and sell high "GMs have...

Blog | November 18, 2009

Tracy and Scioscia the easy choices

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

No real surprises here, huh? Jim Tracy of Colorado has won the NL Manager of the Year award and Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels has been sel...

Blog | November 18, 2009

What's next for Ian Kinsler?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Kinsler After running through Ian Kinsler's many accomplishments in 2009 -- career highs in homers and steals, good fielding stats, more playing ti...

Blog | November 18, 2009

Wednesday Wangdoodles

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

Today's links were compiled while I fantasized about seeing these guys in a televised debate. Or maybe an MMA match ... * FanGraphs' Erik Manning, ...

Blog | November 18, 2009

Greinke learns from the nerds?

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

In a blog post trumpeting the accomplishments of Brett Anderson, I mentioned Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) in passing, and a couple of commenter...

Blog | November 18, 2009

K.C. will host 2012 All-Star Game

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

...1999, had hoped to land the game to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park. However, MLB has apparently decided on Kauffman Stadium, which underwent major renovations before the start of last season. Kauffman...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Stat guys not so monolithic after all

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

I didn't have a BBWAA award ballot this season, so for me everything's still theoretical. But Keith Law had a ballot (more on that tomorrow, from him)...

Blog | November 17, 2009

Greinke almost unanimous

Rob Neyer, SweetSpot

It's not often that I'm utterly right about something that seems less than obvious (to me, anyway), so I hope you'll pardon me for revisiting somethin...

Blog | November 17, 2009