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| The Lineup Card: 10 Players We Wish Had Stayed Healthy | Baseball Prospectus | 2013-05-01 |
 | Skewed Left: Murphy, Morris, and Using the Full 15 Ballots | Zachary Levine | 2013-01-10 |
| The Lineup Card: 11 Potential Trades | Baseball Prospectus | 2012-12-13 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: That Holden Caulfield Kind of Crap: The Historicity of the Hall of Fame Debate | David Roher | 2012-12-11 |
| The Lineup Card: 10 Mr. Almosts | Baseball Prospectus | 2012-05-24 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Jon Lester, Meet Mel Parnell | Steven Goldman | 2012-03-23 |
| Extra Innings Excerpt: What is the Effect of the Increase in Strikeouts? | Christina Kahrl | 2012-03-16 |
| The Platoon Advantage: Why You Should Watch the Non-Contenders | Jason Wojciechowski | 2012-03-14 |
| The BP First Take: Monday, February 20 | Daniel Rathman | 2012-02-20 |
| The BP Broadside: Jorge Posada and the Third-String Yankees | Steven Goldman | 2012-01-30 |
| Inside The Park: Why We Want Players to Remember the Past | Bradford Doolittle | 2012-01-26 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Class of 2012: The Outfielders, Part I | Jay Jaffe | 2012-01-02 |
| Baseball ProGUESTus: Moneyball and Money Men | Kevin Baker | 2011-10-07 |
| Wezen-Ball: Remembering Ripken and "Unassailable" Records | Larry Granillo | 2011-09-08 |
| The BP Broadside: The Annotated WARP Leaders II: Did Ernie Banks Write the Book of Love? | Steven Goldman | 2011-05-25 |
| The BP Broadside: The Annotated WARP Leaders | Steven Goldman | 2011-05-23 |
| The BP Broadside: The Bronx Blame Game and the Posada Psychodrama | Steven Goldman | 2011-05-17 |
| Wezen-Ball: "Challenge the Yankees", the boardgame | Larry Granillo | 2011-04-14 |
| Spitballing: Trading Places | Jeremy Greenhouse | 2011-04-07 |
| Changing Speeds: Baseball on the Ones | Ken Funck | 2011-03-22 |
| Transaction of the Day: Jose Bautista's Serious Bank | Christina Kahrl | 2011-02-17 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: The Right Fielders | Jay Jaffe | 2011-01-04 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Class of 2011: Bagwell and Baggage | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-23 |
| Another Look: Unbreakable Records | Bob Hertzel | 2010-09-07 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Don't Call it the Veterans' Committee | Jay Jaffe | 2010-07-28 |
| One-Hoppers: Ken Griffey Jr. Bows Out | Jay Jaffe | 2010-06-02 |
| On the Beat: Midweek Update | John Perrotto | 2010-01-13 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hall of Fame Cases for Outfielders | Jay Jaffe | 2009-12-31 |
| Changing Speeds: Twin City Triplets | Ken Funck | 2009-08-10 |
| On the Beat: Mid-Week Update | John Perrotto | 2009-06-24 |
| On the Beat: Cooper's Optimism | John Perrotto | 2009-04-19 |
| Out at the Ballpark: A Visit to the New Yankee Stadium | Neil deMause | 2009-04-03 |
| On the Beat: Open Camps | John Perrotto | 2009-02-18 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Infielders | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-11 |
| Doctoring The Numbers: When the Rains Come | Rany Jazayerli | 2008-10-28 |
| Player Profile: Ryan Howard | Marc Normandin | 2008-09-23 |
| Player Profile: Ryan Howard | Eric Seidman | 2008-09-23 |
| You Could Look It Up: Jon Lester, Meet Mel Parnell | Steven Goldman | 2008-05-20 |
| Prospectus Preview: Tuesday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-05-20 |
| You Could Look It Up: Who Really Needed an Early Pink Slip? | Steven Goldman | 2008-04-26 |
| You Could Look It Up: Go Go, Tigers, Go? | Steven Goldman | 2008-04-08 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Getting Shifty | Dan Fox | 2008-01-10 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Freshmen | Jim Baker | 2007-11-30 |
| You Could Look It Up: Sweepers, Part 3 | Steven Goldman | 2007-11-12 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The (Elimination) Gamers | Jim Baker | 2007-10-19 |
| The Ledger Domain: The Ratings Game | Maury Brown | 2007-10-10 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Milestoners and the New New Veterans Committee | Jay Jaffe | 2007-08-14 |
| Prospectus Today: A Failure of Leadership | Joe Sheehan | 2007-07-25 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Be Sharp | Nate Silver | 2007-06-21 |
| JAWS Returns: Cooperstown Musings | Jay Jaffe | 2007-05-21 |
| Grumpy Old Men: JAWS Tackles the Veterans Committee Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2007-02-26 |
| Prospectus Today: My Hall of Fame Ballot | Joe Sheehan | 2007-01-05 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Accountability, plus Odds and Ends | Jim Baker | 2006-11-03 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Ask, and You Shall Be Answered | Jim Baker | 2006-10-31 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The 10 Biggest Mismatchups in World Series History | Jim Baker | 2006-10-21 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Definition of Insanity | Steven Goldman | 2006-09-29 |
| The Week In Quotes: September 10-17 | Alex Carnevale | 2006-09-18 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: A Plethora of Blunders | Dan Fox | 2006-07-20 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Out on One Bounce | Jim Baker | 2005-09-20 |
| Swinging for the Fences: Does Missing Matter? | Mike Carminati | 2005-09-05 |
| Swinging for the Fences: Does Missing Matter? | Will Carroll | 2005-09-05 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Return of Return of the Transients | Jim Baker | 2005-06-17 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Ivy Pride | Jim Baker | 2005-05-27 |
| The Veterans Committee Ballot: JAWS Chews on the Eligibles | Jay Jaffe | 2005-03-02 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Into the Headlines | Jim Baker | 2005-01-14 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Generation Gap | Jim Baker | 2004-11-24 |
| Can Of Corn: The Way We Were | Dayn Perry | 2004-08-25 |
| Predicting the Playoffs: Mortal Lock or Coin Flip? | Doug Pappas | 2003-09-29 |
| They Wuz Robbed: Tales of Head-Scratching MVP Voting | Mark Armour | 2003-09-05 |
| Casey, TK, Gardenhire: How Does Your Prospect Grow?: How the Twins Haven't Learned from Stengel | Steven Goldman | 2003-07-02 |
| The Great Slide Backwards: Which Teams Will Lose 20 More Games this Season? | Mark Armour | 2003-04-09 |
| Prospectus Feature: 2003 IHOF Veterans Committee Results | Neal Traven | 2003-02-26 |
| Prospectus Feature: Playing the Armchair Arbitrator | Nate Silver | 2003-02-06 |
| Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame: Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame | John Brattain | 2002-03-08 |
BP Chats
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| 2009-07-07 13:00:00 | What are your thoughts on the Hall of Fame?
(Mitch from Austin) | What are my thoughts? I've probably put 100,000 words into the BP archives on that topic since I first started writing here in 2003.
The Hall of Fame is an often frustrating institution whose guardians have done a very mixed job of identifying the all-time greats thanks to a complete lack of perspective when it comes to identifying the varying levels of offense over the course of the game's history. The writers are too exclusive and stuck in the past when it comes to identifying worthy candidates, and that's without even touching the current and upcoming steroid debates. The Veterans Committee used to be far too liberal at admitting just about anyone from the 1930s, but as it's currently constructed it's snubbing the best candidates, while preventing some other very good ones from even getting on the ballot, all for another round of referenda on whether the likes of Roger Maris and Thurman Munson deserve enshrinement. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2009-05-12 13:00:00 | I sincerely hope you got to see Moxy Fruvous live before they stopped - it was the most fun one could have at a performance.
On unexplained statistical variation, whenever I get into this argument I ask what Roger Maris was taking in '61. Those who don't stop talking to me altogether can never come up with an acceptable response.
(Ken_P from NY) | I didn't! I have their live album and some bootleg bits I've picked up here and there, but they stopped performing roughly two minutes before I first heard of them... With Roger, I think there was a lot of nervous smoking, just like with DiMaggio. Heck, if you want, you can account for the record-breaking aspect of the season by dinging him the two home runs he hit at LA's Little Wrigley Field, not really a major league park. You do that, he's down to 59 HRs and no one is bitching about asterisks and other obscure punctuation marks. (Steven Goldman) |
| 2009-05-12 13:00:00 | Your answer is EXACTLY why I called you a steroid-apologist. What facts are you using? None. Instead we see you pull numbers out of thin air and use them to give the benefit of the doubt to Bonds and McGwire. You begin by stating "there's no evidence that PED's inflate performance THAT much," which then apparently gives you the freedom to ASSUME Bonds would have probably broken the all time single season record "naturally." Are you kidding?
(tommybones from brooklyn) | I'm using the far more well-established impact of PEDs in sports other than baseball as the basis for that judgment. A track star takes a pile of drugs and runs his race in 40:39 instead of 40:37. that's the impact of the drugs in those sports. Yet, we're supposed to believe that the same substances granted Barry Bonds 35 home runs, or whatever number you want to assign? That seems like a real stretch. I am trying to find a reasonable point of impact. Sure, it's speculative, but it's based on history. As for assuming that the home run record was vulnerable, a great many things in baseball changed in the immediate post-strike period, many of which I listed before. They all played a part. Just to name one, there has been some very persuasive arguments made on behalf of an altered ball in that period, since baseball's error bars on ball standards are so wide as to be pointless. All of these things play a part, and they have to be accounted for. So you have guys with 45 home run ability to begin with, who pick up the benefit of a half-dozen key environmental changes, and then you give them this little nudge with drugs and they break a record. Like I said, if the Angels had played 1961 at a park other than Little Wrigley, the used for the Home Run Derby show on TV, Roger Maris probably hits 59 home runs, not 61. You're looking for your smoking gun to be a big comedy cannon instead of a little tiny derringer. (Steven Goldman) |
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