Yanks should keep Gardner, deal Cabrera
Rob NeyerIn case you haven't noticed, the New York Yankees have too many outfielders. And according to Ken Rosenthal, one of them's on the block: The Yankees...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2009
Mussina vs. Palmer: The debate continues
...he's been, hasn't been as great as Jim Palmer: Over the weekend, ESPN's Rob Neyer noted the supportive comments of former Orioles great Jim Palmer, who thinks Mussina is Hall-worthy...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2008
These Questions 3: Aaron Gleeman
In case you're wondering about the title for this segment, "These Questions 3" refers to a classic scene (video) in ""Monty Python and the Holy Grail,...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 31, 2008
Assessing Vizquel's defense
...so at least those seasons, they had to be the best. Good catch. Meanwhile, ESPN's Rob Neyer uses stats called WARP (Wins Above Replacement Player) to make the case that not only is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 01, 2008
Examing the Lee/Sabathia question … again
...slightly below average pitcher, despite his early season ungodly performance, and got excoriated by people like Rob Neyer (actually he was justified, because I was unfair to him), he has posted an OPS against...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 16, 2008
Monday Mendozas
• Thank you, Doug Glanville, for writing the best thing I've ever read about baseball fights (and thank you, New York Times, for hiring Doug Gla...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 26, 2008
Polanco undone by Ramirez?
...mitt. In fact, according to The Fielding Bible Awards voted on by Bill James, John Dewan, Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski and six other baseball-minded people, Polanco was the seventh-best fielding second baseman...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 09, 2008
Cueto had few flaws in first start
...two innings he worked. MORE ON CUETO • Baseball Tonight: What's next? • Rob Neyer: Greatest debuts • Inside Edge: Cueto's approach His secondary stuff wasn't consistent, but...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2008
Trammell being unfairly judged?
Monday in this space, I wrote: "I suspect if you solicited ballots from five nonvoters (say: Rob Neyer, Joe Sheehan, Keith Law, Rich Lederer and David Pinto), you would find a great deal of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 02, 2008
Cooperstown credentials
Reading about Hall of Fame voter Gerry Fraley's 2008 ballot, I'm reminded again of just how subjective the process can be. Fraley's voting for seven...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 31, 2007
There's just no avoiding Bagwell
...of 10 Hall of Fame caliber players and accurately say who used and who didn't? Rob Neyer: Of course it depends on how you define "accurately," Tod. But you have to realize that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 20, 2007
Hank and Hal … The Steinbrothers
...the necessary sacrifices (working harder, etc) that it would take. My new goal is to be Rob Neyer, King of Nicknames. I invented "The Big W" (Wikipedia). I invented "Cap'n Jetes (Derek Jeter...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2007
Baseball really is evolving
...fielding statistics, and he begins like this: During this year's MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference, Rob Neyer told attendees that the evaluation of major league player hitting, pitching and fielding performance has been...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2007
Perfect Brewer
Rob NeyerLast night in Round Rock, Texas, Brewers farmhand Manny Parra threw a perfect game for Nashville. Here's the local take, and here's the the official w...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 26, 2007
Torre's bullpen blunder
Rob NeyerI'm 100 percent sure that Joe Torre is trying to win. Well, maybe 99 percent sure. I know just enough about quantum physics to know I can't be 100 pe...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 26, 2007
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