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 | In A Pickle: All-Stars Are Not All Stars | Jason Wojciechowski | 2013-02-21 |
| Pebble Hunting: When the Teams That Don't Have Hall of Famers Yet Will Have Hall of Famers | Sam Miller | 2013-01-10 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Fat Elvis' Swan Song | Jay Jaffe | 2012-08-31 |
| Future Shock Blog: Draft Day Dream Crushing | Kevin Goldstein | 2012-06-04 |
| Overthinking It: The Overlooked Overlooked Hall of Famers | Ben Lindbergh | 2012-02-02 |
| Future Shock: Twins Top 11 Prospects | Kevin Goldstein | 2011-11-03 |
| Wezen-Ball: Player Rankings for Type A/B Calculations, 1982-1984 | Larry Granillo | 2011-11-02 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Stuck in the Middle with You | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-25 |
| BP Unfiltered: The Hallworthy Alomar and Blyleven | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-23 |
| The Lineup Card: Cult Favorites: 18 Non-Star Ballplayers Who Should be Better Remembered | Baseball Prospectus | 2011-07-13 |
| Wezen-Ball: Numbers That Should Be Retired | Larry Granillo | 2011-07-01 |
| BP Unfiltered: The Paper Trail 4/30 | John Perrotto | 2011-04-30 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Bob Kipper | David Laurila | 2011-01-04 |
| Prospectus Perspective: Bagging on Bagwell | Christina Kahrl | 2010-12-31 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: Edgar Martinez | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-30 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: Alomar's Second Chance | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-28 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Class of 2011: Bagwell and Baggage | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-23 |
| One-Hoppers: The Snubbed Cub: Ron Santo (1940-2010) | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-03 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Examining The Expansion Era Hall of Fame Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2010-11-10 |
| BP Unfiltered: Five Minutes with Larry Parrish | David Laurila | 2010-10-30 |
| You Can Blog It Up: The Shockingly Non-Bunty Gene Mauch All-Stars | Steven Goldman | 2010-08-14 |
| Prospectus Q&A: On Trammell and Whitaker | David Laurila | 2010-08-13 |
| BP Podcast: Episode 10: With Awesome Fedora | Kevin Goldstein | 2010-07-28 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Don't Call it the Veterans' Committee | Jay Jaffe | 2010-07-28 |
| One-Hoppers: Rolen Towards Cooperstown? | Jay Jaffe | 2010-05-25 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: O-Dog Waits, Edmonds Campaigns | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-22 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: 10 Men Out | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-13 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hawk, Rock, and a Couple of Shocks | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-07 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hall of Fame Cases at Third and Short | Jay Jaffe | 2009-12-23 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Alomar, the Crime Dog, the Big Cat and Big Mac | Jay Jaffe | 2009-12-21 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Vlad and the Right Fielders | Jay Jaffe | 2009-08-19 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: How is the Air Up There? | Jay Jaffe | 2009-08-13 |
| You Could Look It Up: Bruised but Unbowed? | Steven Goldman | 2009-06-24 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Tales in a Minor Key | Jay Jaffe | 2009-04-22 |
| Future Shock: Twins Top 11 Prospects | Kevin Goldstein | 2009-02-19 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Curious Case of Jeff Kent | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-27 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Protracting the Process | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-22 |
| Transaction Analysis: Deadline Day Wrap-Up | Christina Kahrl | 2008-08-01 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Late Standing Starts | Jim Baker | 2008-06-20 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Life and Times of Buzzie Bavasi, Part Two | Jay Jaffe | 2008-05-14 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Reminiscing with SFR, the Sequel | Dan Fox | 2008-04-03 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Freshmen | Jim Baker | 2007-11-30 |
| 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 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Rookies and Cycles | Nate Silver | 2007-08-23 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Milestoners and the New New Veterans Committee | Jay Jaffe | 2007-08-14 |
| JAWS Returns: Cooperstown Musings | Jay Jaffe | 2007-05-21 |
| Prospectus Today: Punching Jeff Kent's Ticket | Joe Sheehan | 2007-04-26 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Pete Palmer | David Laurila | 2007-03-11 |
| Grumpy Old Men: JAWS Tackles the Veterans Committee Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2007-02-26 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Column Reversers | Jim Baker | 2007-02-09 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Bill James | David Laurila | 2007-01-16 |
| The Class of 2007: The Hitters, Part Two | Jay Jaffe | 2007-01-08 |
| Prospectus Matchups: October Musings | Jim Baker | 2006-10-06 |
| Prospectus Today: On Edmonds | Joe Sheehan | 2006-04-21 |
| JAWS 2006: From the Mailbag | Jay Jaffe | 2006-01-30 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Forecasting the Future: Microculture | Nate Silver | 2005-06-15 |
| Roberto Alomar Calls It Quits: Within Spitting Distance of the Hall of Fame | Jay Jaffe | 2005-03-21 |
| The Class of 2005: The Hitters | Jay Jaffe | 2004-12-16 |
| Marginal Payroll/Marginal Wins: 1977-1979 | Doug Pappas | 2004-03-09 |
| Aim For The Head: Memory Lane | Keith Woolner | 2004-02-11 |
| Swinging for the Hall, Part 2: A Non-HOF All-Star Team | Michael Wolverton | 2002-09-18 |
| Hall Of Fame Roundtable: Commentary on this year's candidates | Christina Kahrl | 2000-11-30 |
| Hall Of Fame Roundtable: Commentary on this year's candidates | Gary Huckabay | 2000-11-30 |
BP Chats
| Date | Question | Answer |
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| 2010-08-26 13:00:00 | Good point about Braun vs. LHP. Bobby Grich had one year (1980 or thereabouts) where he hit .162 against lefties. Every other year of his career he had a normal platoon split for a righthanded regular.
(Rex Little from Big Bear CA) | Exactly! These things happen, and given he's still crushing righties, it's tough to get too upset about his future based on just over 100 PA against pitchers he normally destroys. (Marc Normandin) |
| 2010-01-06 13:00:00 | As an older Mets fan who fondly remembers Ventura for his grand slam single, and a young baseball fan who fondly remembers Ventura for charging Nolan Ryan. He deserved better than being one and done, right?
(J.P. from Hartford) | Absolutely. I'm not convinced yet that he belongs, but as with Will Clark, Lou Whitaker, Dwight Evans, Bobby Grich and several others, I certainly feel the debate should have gone on a whole lot longer before anyone made up their minds. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2010-01-06 13:00:00 | Off the top of your head, who are two or three very credible options for the Hall that few casual fans or even BP readers would see as such? Will Clark? Trammell? In other words, in your extensive research on the topic, who's really surprised you with good candidancies?
(Grant from Chicago) | Bobby Grich is one. Will Clark another. Bill Dahlen and Rick Reuschel are two guys whose JAWS scores are near the line that nobody ever thinks of. Dahlen I can see, Reuschel I'm not even convinced of. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2009-10-28 14:00:00 | I know it's early, but how do Utley's HoF chances look so far?
(dtwhite from Toronto) | On the one hand, he's got five years towards a very solid peak score, he's got a ring and some All-Star appearances, and he's just finishing his Age 30 season.
On the other hand, the bar for second basemen in the Hall is unusually high - Bobby Grich and Lou Whitaker can't even get in - and there's a Nate Silver study that showed that second basemen tend to peak earlier and have shorter careers than other position players. Utley's had injury concerns over the past few years, and I worry if that will take its toll down the road.
Which would be a damn shame, because he's one of my favorite players to watch. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2008-09-10 13:00:00 | Jay,
Do you think of the players on the new Veteran's Committee ballot belong in the HOF? Thanks for chatting.
(collins from greenville nc) | I think Bill Dahlen does, and I'd be willing to consider Joe Gordon given the impact of World War II service on his career, but I'm far more interested in seeing cases like Bobby Grich, Lou Whitaker and Dwight Evans come up for a vote than some of these oldtimers. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2008-07-24 13:00:00 | Does the recent hot streak make you think differently about Dustin Pedroia going forward? Theres not much time in the majors to look at so I wonder if he's taking a step forward or if this is just one of those blips that happens over the course of 162. Thanks, Ms. Kahrl.
(mattymatty from Philly) | It would be somewhat ironic if we had the new Bobby Grich on our hands, yet we in the analysis community shrank from identifying him until he already made it imminent. (Christina Kahrl) |
BP Roundtables
| Date | Roundtable Name | Comment |
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| 2009-10-16 13:00:00 | NLCS Game Two/ALCS Game One | Popup city for the Dodgers.
adambennett (MD Backgammon Tourney): Abreu for the HoF? A couple more good seasons should do it, right?
Assuming we're talking about Bobby Abreu and not Tony or Winston, he's further away from the Hall of Fame. I looked at this back in August (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9416). By those numbers, which don't account for 2009, he was about 17 WARP short on career and a couple WARP shy on peak, but the real problem is that he's just past 2,100 hits at age 35, isn't close to 300 homers (256), has just two All-Star appearances and has never finished higher than 14th in the MVP voting. Plus there's the fact that guys who walk 80 or 100 times a year are exactly the ones who get kicked in the head by the voters, who prefer hackers like Jim Rice and Ryne Sandberg to plate disciples like Ron Santo, Tim Raines and Bobby Grich. (Jay Jaffe) |
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