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| The BP Wayback Machine: Opening Day Goodbyes | Jim Baker | 2013-03-29 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: Paul Richards, Maker of Major-League Managers | Jonathan Bernstein | 2013-02-19 |
| 108 Stitches: A Chat with Earl Weaver | Dan Evans | 2013-01-21 |
| Wezen-Ball: Earl Weaver & Stan Musial, Together | Larry Granillo | 2013-01-19 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: A Salute to Small Sample Size | Chad Finn | 2012-05-22 |
| The BP Broadside: Jorge Posada and the Third-String Yankees | Steven Goldman | 2012-01-30 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Cardinals' Special Era Reaches a Crossroads | Bradford Doolittle | 2011-12-08 |
 | Prospectus Perspective: Davey Johnson: Man, Beast, or Cheese? | Chris St. John | 2011-07-07 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Un-Stars | James Click | 2011-06-30 |
| The BP Broadside: The Bronx Blame Game and the Posada Psychodrama | Steven Goldman | 2011-05-17 |
| Purpose Pitches: The Sorry State of Platooning | Christina Kahrl | 2011-02-03 |
| Inside The Park: Cardinals' Special Era Reaches a Crossroads | Bradford Doolittle | 2010-12-08 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Dusty Discontents (or You Must be a Cubs Fan) | Steven Goldman | 2010-06-28 |
| You Could Look It Up: Memorial Day Meditations | Steven Goldman | 2010-05-31 |
| You Could Look It Up: First-Base Horrors | Steven Goldman | 2010-01-08 |
| You Could Look It Up: Lest We Forget | Steven Goldman | 2009-06-30 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Jim Palmer | David Laurila | 2009-05-17 |
| You Could Look It Up: Roster Crunches | Steven Goldman | 2009-05-14 |
| You Could Look It Up: Herb Score | Steven Goldman | 2008-11-18 |
| Transaction of the Day: The Return of Pigpen | Christina Kahrl | 2008-06-24 |
| You Could Look It Up: Go Go, Tigers, Go? | Steven Goldman | 2008-04-08 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Opening Day Goodbyes | Jim Baker | 2008-03-28 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Andy Etchebarren | David Laurila | 2007-11-18 |
| You Could Look It Up: Sweepers, Part 3 | Steven Goldman | 2007-11-12 |
| The Week In Quotes: February 5-12 | Alex Carnevale | 2007-02-12 |
| Prospectus Hit List: A Brief History | Jay Jaffe | 2006-09-08 |
| Teams: A Critical Guide: April 5-11 | Steven Goldman | 2004-04-13 |
| Casey, TK, Gardenhire: How Does Your Prospect Grow?: How the Twins Haven't Learned from Stengel | Steven Goldman | 2003-07-02 |
| The Week In Quotes: October 14-27 | Derek Zumsteg | 2002-10-28 |
| Another Curse Unmasked: One Ring to Rule Them All | Shane Demmitt | 2002-08-29 |
| Transaction Analysis: Transaction Analysis, February 16-March 5, 2002 | Christina Kahrl | 2002-03-07 |
BP Chats
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| 2010-10-20 13:00:00 | My thoughts on the IBB: I generally agree w/you that IBBs are overdone. Having said that, I don't think that was the primary problem.
The primary problem was the Burnett was clearly done. He started out with very good command (innings 1 & 2). This then slowly deteriorated until, by the 6th, he was back to "bad AJ" again. The walk (to Cruz, IIRC) was pathetic. Ball one, missed the glove by 6+ inches. Ball two, missed the glove in the opposite direction by more. Ball 3...
Then Girardi orders the IBB and AJ nearly throws a ball away. That should have clinched it. You bring in Robertson then & there.
Still, if the offense is going to hang out on the interstate it doesn't really matter.
(Rob from Andover, CT) | His velocity was trending downwards, too. Like you, I thought the IBB was a prelude to a pitching change and was shocked when Girardi didn't cash in his chips on A.J. and be happy with what he had gotten. I often think of this story about Casey Stengel that Hank Bauer told, about how Bauer went 3-for-3 in his first three ABs of some game and then Casey pinch-hit for him in his next at-bat. Bauer was pissed, and Casey said something flip, like, "How many 4-for-4s have you had in your career?" It probably wasn't that harsh and I'm paraphrasing poorly, but from the context what I think he meant was, "You did a really good thing, but just because you've been good so far is no indication that you'll be great again--every AB is its own thing, and in this situation I feel like the percentages are against you, so I'm making a change." Girardi said the opposite thing last night, "We though A.J. was still pitching pretty well." Who cares? Burnett wasn't pitching a GAME, he was pitching a series of unique confrontations, and the foregoing was pretty much irrelevant to what was about go happen. Does that make sense?
I know I talk about Casey too often, but he was really smart and managed so long that you can find an analogy for almost every situation in his career.
And you're right about the offense, but Joe isn't helping. (Steven Goldman) |
BP Roundtables
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| 2008-10-22 16:30:00 | World Series Game One | Chiming in a bit late on the whole leaving yourself w/o a backup catcher thing, Casey Stengel did that frequently. Sometimes it worked. There was at least one occasion he wound up with Hank Bauer at catcher and lost a game on a PB. Not, however in the WS. ...There was a famous occasion late in the 1949 season when both Yogi Berra and Charlie Silvera were hurt and Ralph Houk started. The umpire made a controversial call and Houk basically assaulted him, but the umpire didn't run him, knowing that it could quite possibly affect the outcome of a close pennant race. I don't think that's actually the correct call, but it's what happened. (Steven Goldman) |
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