Prospectus Feature: Playing the Armchair Arbitrator
2/06No, the most contentious sports battles of February are fought not in football rinks or hockey stadiums, but in hotel conference rooms in Tampa and Phoenix, where owners and agents will square off against one another all month long in a series of arbitration hearings that will be fully nasty enough to recall the high period of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling circuit, except without quite as much hair-pulling.
Prospectus Feature: Top 40 Prospects Roundtable
1/31Part two of our look at the top 40 prospects.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Expanding the Playoffs: Drawing Guidance from the NBA
1/28Although the specifics haven't been laid out for public consumption, it is widely assumed that four teams would be added to the post-season mix, raising the number of participants from eight to 12.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Expanding the Playoffs
1/28Major League Baseball's recent decision to base home-field advantage in the World Series on the outcome of the All-Star Game runs contrary to the way Commissioner Bud Selig normally operates. Spurred by last year's All-Star debacle in Milwaukee, the entire process - from concept to approval - took only six months, and failed to employ even one sub-committee of analysts to explore the issue. More typical of Selig's decision-making process is his announcement of the newly-formed special task force for "The Commissioner's Initiative: Major League Baseball in the 21st Century."
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: That’s the Chicago Way
1/24The Anaheim Angels finished the 2001 season 41 games out of first place, so you would be forgiven if their World Series victory last fall surprised you. It surprised all of us. All of us except Phil Rogers, that is. He saw it coming.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Breaking Out
1/23In an article that appeared last week on ESPN.com, Peter Gammons provided a list of 20 players whom respondants to an informal straw poll described as candidates for a breakout season. The list, derived from a survey of major league executives, included a mix of pitchers and hitters, five-tool talents and makeup guys, united only in their ability to tease hibernating fantasy leaguers into dreams of greener days ahead. If one needs any reminder that lists like these are little more than a grownup's version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, it's worth reviewing a similar list that Gammons produced last year.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Midsummer Classic: Making it More Than Just an Exhibition Game
1/22Last week, Major League Baseball's owners unanimously approved Commissioner Bud Selig's proposal to give the league that wins the All-Star Game home field advantage in the World Series.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Appearance of Misconduct: A Conspiracy Theory Worth Considering
1/21Jonah Keri has ably analyzed the Colon trade and its ridiculousness for the Expos. I want to focus on the deal as an indicator of the shadiness and shame implied by the league's ownership of the Expos.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Baseball Prospectus Radio
1/17Serious Baseball Analysis Hits the Airwaves
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The 1987 Free Agent Market
1/14Flash back to January 1987. Walk Like an Egyptian is at the top of the pop charts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has coasted past 2,000. John Elway has broken Cleveland's heart for the very first time. And in baseball, the free agents are getting utterly and completely shafted.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: A Brief History of the Veterans Committee
1/14Almost from the day it opened, the Baseball Hall of Fame has had some form of a Veterans Committee to supplement the player selections voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America. In fact, Cy Young, who finished sixth behind the first five inductees, also received the fourth-highest 1936 vote total from the Old-Timers Committee.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Freely Available Talent
12/12The notion of "freely available talent" is something of a Sabermetric piety. Savvy waiver claims and judicious use of the Rule 5 draft are two sources, but it's mostly by trawling through the minor-league free agents each year that many organizations fill their holes at the highest level.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: 2002 STATLG-L Internet Hall of Fame
12/09Cast your vote for this year's Hall of Fame class.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Forty Million Dollar Question: Building the 2003 Expos (Part Two)
12/04Scot Hughes analyzes the rest of Montreal's roster, which will probably be filled with players who are not yet arbitration-eligible.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: 2002 HACKING MASS Results: All Players, By Position
11/26Thanks to everyone who suggested that we post the HACKING MASS results for 2002 and let people figure out how they did themselves--something we completely failed to consider--here are the complete 2002 results.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: 2002 HACKING MASS Results: All Players, By Name
11/26The 2002 HACKING MASS Results: All Players, By Name
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