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Author |
Date |
 | Overthinking It: Ranking Rivera | Ben Lindbergh | 2013-03-22 |
| Manufactured Runs: What Hall of Fame Voters are Doing to the Hall of Fame | Colin Wyers | 2013-01-10 |
| The Lineup Card: 12 Stats We Wish Were Readily Available | Baseball Prospectus | 2012-09-05 |
| The Lineup Card: 10 Most Disappointing Career-Ending Injuries | Baseball Prospectus | 2012-05-09 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Jon Lester, Meet Mel Parnell | Steven Goldman | 2012-03-23 |
| Inside The Park: Ode to a Terrible Stat | Bradford Doolittle | 2012-02-23 |
| The Lineup Card: 9 World Series Heroes: The Year After | Baseball Prospectus | 2011-11-03 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: When 100 Tiles Meets 27 Outs | Diane Firstman | 2011-10-14 |
| BP Unfiltered: The Hallworthy Alomar and Blyleven | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-23 |
| The Asian Equation: The Roots of the Posting System | Michael Street | 2011-04-13 |
| Changing Speeds: Baseball on the Ones | Ken Funck | 2011-03-22 |
| The BP Broadside: Three Hundred | Steven Goldman | 2011-02-04 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Jack O'Connell, Part II | David Laurila | 2011-01-21 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-20 |
| Another Look: Lefty's Remarkable Streak | Bob Hertzel | 2010-08-24 |
| Under The Knife: The No Fun League? | Will Carroll | 2010-07-27 |
| Another Look: Remembering Donald Davidson | Bob Hertzel | 2010-06-29 |
| One-Hoppers: Wakefield's The Man In Boston | Marc Normandin | 2010-06-09 |
| You Can Blog It Up: Dead Player of the Day and Other Controversies #18 | Steven Goldman | 2010-05-04 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Tom Glavine | Jay Jaffe | 2010-02-17 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Ross Detwiler | David Laurila | 2010-01-17 |
| Expanded Horizons: Stories Big and Small | Tommy Bennett | 2010-01-12 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hall of Fame Cases for Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-06 |
| Prospectus Hit List: The Rising | Jay Jaffe | 2009-06-05 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Tales in a Minor Key | Jay Jaffe | 2009-04-22 |
| On the Beat: Cooper's Optimism | John Perrotto | 2009-04-19 |
| You Could Look It Up: Going South? | Steven Goldman | 2009-02-11 |
| You Could Look It Up: Rumors of Distant Thunder | Steven Goldman | 2009-02-03 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Nose Knows | Steven Goldman | 2009-01-27 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-12 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Bleeding Edge of a Whole New Hall Game | Jay Jaffe | 2008-12-09 |
| Every Given Sunday: Moving Forward to Rewind | John Perrotto | 2008-08-31 |
| You Could Look It Up: Livan Hernandez Makes the List | Steven Goldman | 2008-08-12 |
| Prospectus Preview: Friday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-07-04 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Dual-Ball Era | Steven Goldman | 2008-06-03 |
| You Could Look It Up: Jon Lester, Meet Mel Parnell | Steven Goldman | 2008-05-20 |
| Every Given Sunday: Lightning in a Bottle, Thunder in the Bronx | John Perrotto | 2008-05-18 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The 2008 Transient All-Star Team | Jim Baker | 2008-02-29 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Having a Ball | Jay Jaffe | 2008-02-22 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Tandemonium | Jay Jaffe | 2008-02-07 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Fallen Mighty | Steven Goldman | 2008-02-04 |
| The Class of 2008: The Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-03 |
| You Could Look It Up: How 'bout a Ten-Spot? | Steven Goldman | 2007-11-26 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The (Elimination) Gamers | Jim Baker | 2007-10-19 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: The Best Player in Baseball, Part Two | Nate Silver | 2007-09-21 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: The Best Player in Baseball, Part One | Nate Silver | 2007-09-20 |
| Prospectus Matchups: 300 | Jim Baker | 2007-08-10 |
| Prospectus Toolbox: Non-contact, Part One | Derek Jacques | 2007-07-24 |
| JAWS Returns: Cooperstown Musings | Jay Jaffe | 2007-05-21 |
| Grumpy Old Men: JAWS Tackles the Veterans Committee Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2007-02-26 |
| The Class of 2007: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2007-01-09 |
| You Could Look It Up: No Hits For You | Steven Goldman | 2006-09-08 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Best Ever | Jim Baker | 2006-03-14 |
| Transaction Analysis: December 7-13 | Christina Kahrl | 2005-12-14 |
| An Objective Hall of Fame: Part Five, 1947-1950 | Clay Davenport | 2005-08-23 |
| Can Of Corn: Tops Among Top Three | Dayn Perry | 2005-08-03 |
| Prospectus Today: Around the NL | Joe Sheehan | 2005-05-10 |
| Prospectus Game of the Week: New York Mets @ Cincinnati Reds, 4/4/05 | Jonah Keri | 2005-04-06 |
| Prospectus Triple Play: Florida Marlins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates | Derek Jacques | 2005-03-15 |
| The Veterans Committee Ballot: JAWS Chews on the Eligibles | Jay Jaffe | 2005-03-02 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Seeking the Perfect Candidate | Jim Baker | 2005-01-06 |
| Teams: A Critical Guide: American League, September 13-19 | Steven Goldman | 2004-09-25 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The A's Offense | Jim Baker | 2004-09-21 |
| Teams: A Critical Guide: In Which A Myth is Shattered | Steven Goldman | 2004-08-31 |
| You Could Look It Up: Everything Happens in 1912 and 2004 | Steven Goldman | 2004-06-21 |
| You Could Look It Up: Gamesmanship, Dammit | Steven Goldman | 2004-06-02 |
| From The Mailbag: Unearned Runs, Devil Rays, and the Waiver Wire | Baseball Prospectus | 2004-04-26 |
| You Could Look It Up: Managers Reconsidered | Steven Goldman | 2004-04-19 |
| You Could Look It Up: One False Move | Steven Goldman | 2004-04-12 |
| Baseball Prospectus Basics: A Brief History of Pitcher Usage | Rany Jazayerli | 2004-03-02 |
| You Could Look It Up: Problems in Red Sox Management: A Tourist's Guide | Steven Goldman | 2004-02-27 |
| Trading a Superstar: It's Not as Rare as You Might Think | Mark Armour | 2004-01-16 |
| Season on the Brink: A Study in Managerial Contrasts | Rany Jazayerli | 2003-10-16 |
BP Chats
| Date | Question | Answer |
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| 2011-11-30 13:00:00 | Who would be on your top 10 pitchers to see list: I'd put vintage Maddux, Halladay, Pedro, Clemens, and 87 Mike Scott, Gooden, Blyleven, Rivera, Henke, and Johan for people from my lifetime. I
(JT from Exhibition Stadium) | Having seen all of those guys, I'd focus on a lot on the ones that I didn't get to see. If I've included Ryan on that top 10, I'll add Sandy Koufax, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Juan Marichal, Bob Gibson, Grover Alexander, Old Hoss Radbourn (just to see what the game was like then), Burleigh Grimes (need a spitballer), and because he's meant so much to me in the JAWS process, Blyleven. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2011-10-31 13:00:00 | Steven--have you ever given thought to whom would comprise a Platonic ideal pitching rotation? Lots of guys are textbook #1s--Koufax, Maddux, Big Train, Bob Gibson, et al, but what about the rest? Is there such a thing as a quintessential #2? When you think of a #4 or a #5, who is it?
(Jape from Portland) | It's fun to make lists and such, but this one is so wide open. Are we talking career or single season? If the latter, I would have guys like Ron Guidry '78 and Dwight Gooden '85 and other names that don't make the list of all-time greats. If we're talking about guys who were more than one-hit wonders, my list starts with Pedro Martinez and Lefty Grove. (Steven Goldman) |
| 2008-03-14 13:00:00 | Steven I'm a big fan of your "you could look it up" series on BP. I'm getting the chance to meet Dominic DiMaggio next week, and have been researching some fun things from his career to talk about. I want to get into current players, and my question regards the comparison of DD to Ichiro: is this a good comp? It strikes me that both were excellent defensive outfielders, and although Ichiro's production volume on offense is greater they're both consistent hitters who sustained peak performance after age 30. Do you buy that?
(cjenks from SF) | The Little Professor was more selective at the plate than Ichiro, so I suppose you're in the same ballpark, but we're not quite talking the same model here. I'm also willing to bet that DiMaggio got lots, lots, lots of inflationary help from Fenway, and that in the same ballpark Ichiro is probably the far better player... I'd love to have you ask DiMaggio about working for Tom Yawkey, about the personalities of Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx - all of whom he played with in the early days, of Joe McCarthy, if he believes, as Birdie Tebbets alleged, that McCarthy went with Denny Galehouse in the 1948 playoff because the other starters said "pass." Man, I'm jealous. (Steven Goldman) |
BP Roundtables
| Date | Roundtable Name | Comment |
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| 2008-10-22 16:30:00 | World Series Game One | Joe, I'm trying to think of a time that a manager actually did bench a "big" player like Howard (whether big reputationally or whatever) in a postseason game for reasons like that... Not coming up with much. Maybe Connie Mack not giving Lefty Grove a start in the 1929 WS. (Steven Goldman) |
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