TRANSACTION ANALYSIS For the love of God! Where is Transaction Analysis?!? Please Chris, take mercy on my soul and post a new Transaction Analysis! –AC Well, it should hopefully warm your heart to hear that TA is gearing up for daily coverage of the trading deadline action, starting on Friday. Sorry about the quiet period,…
(Ed. note: The unofficial kickoff to Rumor Week got the staff here at BP riled.) Rany Jazayerli: The following deal is about to take place: Kansas City trades Jermaine Dye to Oakland, which trades Mario Encarnacion, Jose Ortiz, and a pitcher to Colorado, which trades Neifi Perez to… Do I need to finish the sentence?…
With half the season down and the good half to go, the Baseball Prospectus staff has assembled its mid-season awards. Take these with a few grains of salt, and enjoy the second half of the season. (Numbers in parentheses indicate number of ballots on which the player appeared, then number of first-place votes received.) AL…
ON STADIA As you state, prior to 2000 teams that moved into new stadia tended to be good ones. You might check attendance figures for this season at Comerica Park. Granted the weather has not been good, but allowing for unoccupied season tickets counted as attendance, it’s hard to claim that fans are flocking to…
With almost five weeks of baseball behind us, let’s take a look at offense in the major leagues to see what, if any, impact the changes in the strike zone are having. Ball Four and Strike Three First, here’s the basic walks and strikeouts information (through May 2), and the comparable information for April of…
Free Erubiel Durazo! Last I looked, Erubiel Durazo had more HR and RBI than Mark Grace, despite being the backup and being banished to the minors for a time. It’ll be amusing to see how long the D’backs will stubbornly play Grace. They are unwilling to admit they made a mistake, no matter how much…
Changing the Game I’m doing a term paper on the subject of competitive balance, and I was hoping you could help me out. What, if anything, should be done to improve competitive balance in baseball? What do you make of Bob Costas’s Fair Ball proposal (a salary cap and floor combined with increased revenue sharing…
Each edition of the annual Baseball Prospectus covers more than 1,600 players, with full Davenport Translations and comments. Even with that kind of blanket coverage, every year players who miss the cut for the book make the cut in spring training, finding their way onto major-league rosters. Our staff has collected DTs and player comments…
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American League East JeffBower ClayDavenport JeffHildebrand GaryHuckabay RanyJazayerli ChrisKahrl KeithLaw New YorkYankees 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 BostonRed Sox 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 TorontoBlue Jays 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Tampa BayDevil Rays 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 BaltimoreOrioles 5 5 5 5 5 5 5…
It’s the Management, Stupid As an investment analyst and former economics student, I particularly enjoyed your use of risk/reward concepts in this column. It has been proven time and time again that economic efficiency is greatest where good management is rewarded and poor management is punished. This is the beauty of our system of economics….
TOP 40 PROSPECTS Where’s Aubrey Huff? Is he off the list because Tampa Bay hasn’t moved Vinny Castilla yet? — Kenneth Shankland No, he’s off the list because we got confused. This is as good a time as any to make a confession: in the process of compiling our Top Prospect list, we somehow got…
On Tuesday, Baseball Prospectus announced its Top 40 Prospects for 2001. The driving force behind that list is Rany Jazayerli, but the good doctor gets input from everyone on the BP staff. Below is a sampling of the discussions that took place in December, when the list was being compiled. Rany Jazayerli: Here is my…
This week, Baseball Prospectus 2001 will be released to bookstores nationwide. As always, the book will contain our list of the top 40 prospects in baseball, as compiled by Rany Jazayerli, along with Jazayerli’s commentary on each player. To celebrate the release of the book, for the first time ever we are announcing our Top…
NOT GETTING HIS DUE It seems obvious to me that the attention Dave Parker receives in comparison to other players, and particularly to Jim Rice, has much to do with where they played. When Parker was the focal point of his team it was when he played for the Pirates. I think it’s fair to…
While Chris Kahrl pecks away at his latest Transaction Analysis (look for it this weekend), here’s a look at how the Baseball Prospectus staff broke down last week’s gathering in Dallas. Pennsylvania Blues Keith Law: Can I revise my Pirates essay to make it a comparison of Cam Bonifay to the average Palm Beach County…