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Date |
| The BP Wayback Machine: The Gift of Kuhn | Steven Goldman | 2012-11-20 |
 | In A Pickle: Carlos Santana, and the Choice of a Generation | Jason Wojciechowski | 2012-08-30 |
| Future Shock Blog: Draft Day Dream Crushing | Kevin Goldstein | 2012-06-04 |
| Inside The Park Blog: Big 3s: The Complete List | Bradford Doolittle | 2012-05-24 |
| Wezen-Ball: Covering an All-Star Team | Larry Granillo | 2012-05-10 |
| Expanded Horizons: An Hour with Marvin Miller | Tommy Bennett | 2012-04-26 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Pudge Retires | Jay Jaffe | 2012-04-20 |
| Research Mailbag: More Than a Mouthful | Bradley Ankrom | 2012-04-12 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Inspecting the Spectrum, Part IV: The Designated Hitter Question | Jay Jaffe | 2012-03-07 |
| Ten Prospects on the Bubble, Part Two: National League | Bradley Ankrom | 2012-03-07 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Greatness of Gary Carter | Jay Jaffe | 2012-02-17 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Keltner All Stars, Part I | Jay Jaffe | 2012-01-13 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Vortices of Suck, Part II | Jay Jaffe | 2011-08-05 |
| Overthinking It: The Avila Advantage | Ben Lindbergh | 2011-07-21 |
| Transaction Analysis: Once and Future Prospects | Ben Lindbergh | 2011-07-05 |
| On the Beat: The Riggleman Resignation | John Perrotto | 2011-06-23 |
| The BP Broadside: Those Who Refuse to Learn From the Past are Condemned to Become Joe Girardi | Steven Goldman | 2011-06-01 |
| Transaction Analysis: A Farewell to Arms | Ben Lindbergh | 2011-04-19 |
| Divide and Conquer, NL West: Catch as Catch Can | Geoff Young | 2011-04-12 |
| BP Unfiltered: In the Beginning... | Mike Fast | 2011-04-07 |
| The Week In Quotes: March 14-20 | Alex Carnevale | 2011-03-21 |
| Prospect Profile: Yasmani Grandal | David Laurila | 2011-03-15 |
| Another Look: The All-Non-Hall of Fame Team | Bob Hertzel | 2011-01-12 |
| One-Hoppers: Gillick Gains Election, Miller Bloc'd Out | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-06 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Billy and George | Jay Jaffe | 2010-11-22 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Examining The Expansion Era Hall of Fame Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2010-11-10 |
| Prospectus Perspective: The Young-Huff All-Stars, Part I | Steven Goldman | 2010-10-28 |
| GM for a Day: Seattle Mariners | John Perrotto | 2010-10-12 |
| On the Beat: Trying to Taint a Gem | John Perrotto | 2010-10-08 |
| On the Beat: Eyeing The Glass Slipper | John Perrotto | 2010-09-29 |
| On the Beat: Breaking It Open | John Perrotto | 2010-09-13 |
| On the Beat: A Nice Change of Pace | John Perrotto | 2010-08-04 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Don't Call it the Veterans' Committee | Jay Jaffe | 2010-07-28 |
| Contractual Matters: The White Rat Reluctant | Jeff Euston | 2010-07-26 |
| BP Unfiltered: This Week in Minor League History: June 14 - June 20 | Geoff Young | 2010-06-19 |
| On the Beat: Monday Update | John Perrotto | 2010-05-31 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Mauer and JAWS | Jay Jaffe | 2010-03-26 |
| Squawking Baseball: The Best and Worst GMs of the '90s | Shawn Hoffman | 2010-02-04 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: 10 Men Out | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-13 |
| Transaction Action: Junior Circuit Jumble | Christina Kahrl | 2009-12-23 |
| On the Beat: Midweek Update | John Perrotto | 2009-09-23 |
| On the Beat: Weekend Wrap | John Perrotto | 2009-05-24 |
| On the Beat: Lowlights in Steel City | John Perrotto | 2009-05-22 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Squat Tax? | Steven Goldman | 2009-04-30 |
| Every Given Sunday: Getting Ink Done | John Perrotto | 2008-11-09 |
| On the Beat: Honeymoons and Divorces | John Perrotto | 2008-11-05 |
| On the Beat: Fold Up the Umbrellas and Play Ball? | John Perrotto | 2008-10-29 |
| On the Beat: Comebacks and Throwbacks | John Perrotto | 2008-10-16 |
| Every Given Sunday: Don't Look at Us Now | John Perrotto | 2008-09-14 |
| Transaction of the Day: Infield Issues Out West | Christina Kahrl | 2008-07-06 |
| Transaction Analysis: AL East Moves and Issues | Christina Kahrl | 2008-07-03 |
| On the Beat: Brewer Blues | John Perrotto | 2008-06-04 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Ned Yost | David Laurila | 2008-05-23 |
| On the Beat: Not So Giant | John Perrotto | 2008-05-21 |
| You Could Look It Up: Offensive Offenders | Steven Goldman | 2008-05-13 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: For the Sake of Completeness | Dan Fox | 2008-01-17 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Dead Horses and Fifth Starters | Jim Baker | 2008-01-04 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Worst Seasons On Record | Jim Baker | 2007-12-28 |
| You Could Look It Up: Joe Torre in a Box | Steven Goldman | 2007-10-22 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Rookies and Cycles | Nate Silver | 2007-08-23 |
| Prospectus Today: Punching Jeff Kent's Ticket | Joe Sheehan | 2007-04-26 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Stretching It Out | Dan Fox | 2007-04-26 |
| Player Profile: Victor Martinez | Marc Normandin | 2007-03-21 |
| The Annuity That Changed Baseball: Hunter v. Finley | Brent Gambill | 2006-08-24 |
| Transaction Analysis: July 17-21, 2006 | Christina Kahrl | 2006-07-22 |
| You Could Look It Up: The Gift of Kuhn | Steven Goldman | 2006-04-24 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: PECOTA Takes On Prospects, Part One | Nate Silver | 2006-02-08 |
| From The Mailbag: Crooked Numbers, LABR, JAWS, and Top Prospect Rankings | Baseball Prospectus | 2005-03-22 |
| Roberto Alomar Calls It Quits: Within Spitting Distance of the Hall of Fame | Jay Jaffe | 2005-03-21 |
| You Could Look It Up: 1984 Part V: Baseball Prospectus, Circa '84 | Steven Goldman | 2004-02-23 |
| Prospectus Today: Shedding the Tools of Ignorance | Joe Sheehan | 2003-05-15 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Randomness: Catch the Fever! | Nate Silver | 2003-05-14 |
| From The Mailbag: Baseball Prospectus | Baseball Prospectus | 2002-09-24 |
| The Week In Quotes: July 1-7, 2002 | Derek Zumsteg | 2002-07-08 |
| Remembering: The Loss of Two Cardinals: The Loss of Two Cardinals | Josh Paley | 2002-06-27 |
| Doctoring The Numbers: Alex Gonzalez | Rany Jazayerli | 2001-05-23 |
BP Chats
| Date | Question | Answer |
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| 2011-05-12 13:00:00 | You're stranded on a desert island somehow. You can have with you one fantasy novel, two MLB mascots' costumes, and one Harvey-Kuenn-era Milwaukee Brewer. What do you bring, why, and how long before the former Brewer decides to eat you?
(Bill_TPA from your mom's basement) | I know it's the obvious answer, but I have to take the Game of Thrones series (if only for it's 10,000+ pages or whatever it is). For mascots: let's take the retired Crazy Crab and Twinkie the Loon. They're just too odd not to be enjoyable on a desert island. Robin Yount is the Brewer, but only because I don't want Ted Simmons or Gorman Thomas to eat me right away. (Larry Granillo) |
| 2010-10-07 13:00:00 | Who would be YOUR pick for the next Pirates manager?
(Bill from Pittsburgh) | I risk angering a lot of friends in baseball by snubbing them but I think Ted Simmons would be a fascinating choice. He's smart, he's got credibility as an All-Star catcher and he thinks outside the box. (John Perrotto) |
| 2010-08-24 14:30:00 | Jorge Posada is a marginal HOF'er based just on his numbers. How much does his sucking at baseball hurt his chances?
(JG from NY) | Jeremy Greenhouse, ladies and gentlemen (Robertson and Gardner are mine!). Posada will be an interesting case. His offensive production might be Hall-worthy, but who knows how much the writers will dock him for being an atrocious defender, as well as one of the worst baserunners of all time. I guess his case might partially hinge on how far defensive evaluations of catchers have advanced by the time he's eligible, but given the bat and the championships, his chances are probably pretty good. On the other hand, he and Ted Simmons have almost identical Rbat numbers at Baseball-Reference, so Posada could still be relegated to that just-missed camp. (Ben Lindbergh) |
| 2010-07-23 13:00:00 | No need to get down and dirty with JAWS, but how do you see Jorge Posada's Hall chances stacking up? I assume the bat would play, but once we deduct the necessary points for defense and historically bad baserunning, would there be enough left? How much weight have Hall voters historically assigned to the defensive component of catcher performance?
(Ben from NYC) | Covered Posada a few times, it's one that inevitably comes up; most recently I wrote about him in the context of Joe Mauer (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=10380). He's gotta keep hitting for a couple of years, still.
Interestingly enough, our defensive system showed him at +23 coming into the year, where the average Hall catcher is +69. The evidence suggests the voters do value defense when it comes to their Hall backstops; tack 100 FRAA onto Ted Simmons (who's at -24) and he's probably in. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2009-09-29 13:00:00 | Least qualified hall of famer? Most qualified non Hall of Famer? (My picks, respectively: Bottomley and Ted Simmons)
(dcoonce from bloomington indiana) | Jesse Haines/Tim Raines. (Steven Goldman) |
| 2008-05-28 13:00:00 | Isn't an 80s book only gonna bring back MORE nostalgia for the "beloved" 1982 Brewers? Can we please tell the people of Milwaukee that this isn't necessarily a GOOD thing, since it leads to things like Ned Yost as manager, Ted Simmons and/or Robin Yount as manager(s) in waiting, and the pleading for Paul Molitor to do anything with the club. /end vent.
(strupp from Madison) | I'm going to refer your question to resident Brewers aficionado Jay Jaffe, who will be handling Milwaukee duties on the book. Your question reminds me of the Washington Senators, where Clark Griffith tended to re-employ any player who used to work for him. (Steven Goldman) |
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