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May 10, 2011 11:15 am
Prospectus Hit List: Beasts of the East |
The Phillies await reinforcements just as they hit the toughest part of their schedule, while the Braves' mound corps carries them past the Marlins for the number-two spot in the NL rankings.
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May 6, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Get it While it's Hot |
Did the Royals jump the gun in calling up Eric Hosmer, or were they wise to risk making their top prospect a Super Two?
By now, you should know that the Kansas City Royals have exactly eleventy-million prospects capable of making scouts drool. If you watched any Royals spring training games this year, you probably already know that they got a lot more interesting after about the fifth or sixth inning. That’s when the ringers from Omaha and Northwest Arkansas would come in and knock the ball around a bit. You may also know that the Royals have an astonishingly low $11.73 million committed to next year’s payroll. (Even the relatively cheap Indians owe Travis Hafner $13 million; at least KC’s money is going mostly to Billy Butler.) And, finally, you may have heard that the Royals made the decision to call up Eric Hosmer, the prospect with the most compelling legend—all indications are that he will make his major-league debut tonight at home. Heck, the call-up was the lead story on Royals.com last night.
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May 2, 2011 9:24 am
Prospectus Hit List: It's 1998 All Over Again |
The unsurprising Yankees and the very surprising Indians battle for AL supremacy.
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April 26, 2011 10:45 am
Prospectus Hit List: Of Phils and Fish |
Halladay, Hamels, and Oswalt push Philadelphia to the top of the NL rankings, but the Marlins are nibbling at their heels.
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April 22, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Eight, Ten, Here We Go Again |
Expanding the playoff field from eight to ten teams might enrich the Lords of the Realm, but what effect would it have on the fans?
Bud Selig has started up the expanded-playoff mill once again. On Thursday, the Commissioner told the AP that he believes the playoffs will expand from eight teams to 10 beginning in the 2012 season, reigniting what was already a very controversial issue even among the most devoted of baseball fans. At BP, reactions have ranged from pure criticism to mild tolerance. I propose we put to one side, at least for the moment, what the right answer is. Let’s see if we can first agree on a set of common principles on which to evaluate a proposal like this one.
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April 18, 2011 9:39 am
Prospectus Hit List: Cleveland Rocks |
The Indians seize the top spot in the American League rankings from the suddenly scuffling Rangers.
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April 15, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Relying on Relievers |
Teams that live and die by their bullpens tend not to succeed, which doesn't bode well for the Yankees and other teams that have eschewed their starters in the early going.
The Heath Bell Curve
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April 12, 2011 10:10 am
Prospectus Hit List: Get Your Phils |
The expected NL East team starts out on top, but has taken an unexpected route to get there.
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March 28, 2011 10:03 am
Prospectus Hit List: AL Pre-Season Hit List |
A familiar Eastern threesome tops the Junior Circuit rankings.
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March 28, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Diversifying Doug Melvin |
Does the composition of the Brewers' roster justify their decision to go all in?
“[I]n the domain of zero to one, not-something to something, Pointsman can only possess the zero and the one. He cannot, like Mexico, survive anyplace in between. Like his master I. P. Pavlov before him, he imagines the cortex of the brain as a mosaic of tiny on/off elements. . . . [E]ach point is allowed only the two states: waking or sleep. . . . But to Mexico belongs the domain between zero and one—the middle Pointsman has excluded from his persuasion—the probabilities.
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March 7, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Jay Another Day |
Toronto fans wish the Blue Jay Way wouldn't be long, but can the team be blamed for bowing out of the ultra-competitive AL East?
How do GMs of 85-win teams usually go about their offseasons? Most folks, not just major-league front-office executives, smell blood in the water and position themselves for the kill. The natural—and here I mean to evoke the ruthlessness of the Serengeti—reaction to the just-missed-it is the try-try-again. I take this phenomenon to be the primary explanation of, among other things: the Buffalo Bills of the 1990s; William Jennings Bryan; and the modern popularity of golf.
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February 28, 2011 9:00 am
Expanded Horizons: Quantifying Hope |
Is it true that every team has a shot this Spring?
“I’m anxious to see how it all blooms together.” —Astros General Manager Ed Wade
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