PECOTA Spreadsheet Updated with Enhancements
If Oakland could develop its own hitters, it wouldn’t need to invest in players like Yoenis Cespedes.
How can we reconcile Oakland’s Yoenis Cespedes signing with the team’s latest rebuilding efforts and its surplus of Stepford outfielders?
Garfoose wrangler, author, and newly-minted Italian leaguer Dirk Hayhurst discusses baseball, his new book, and his decision to move across the pond.
Does the recently-extended Billy Beane’s reputation deserved to be tarnished after five seasons without playoff baseball in Oakland?
What ever happened to Roy Oswalt making a lot of money this winter?
A look at Oakland’s surprise Yoenis Cespedes signing
Which baseball player measures up to the Linsanity sweeping the nation?
Which outfielders and DHs proved to be the biggest black holes in the majors?
A look at the Mets’ financial situation and how they could turn the ship around
Or, how Justin Duchscherer broke our hearts
One Beckett writer tries to solve a very big problem of 1990 life.
Prospects Compilation Spreadsheet
Not much going on in the world of baseball as teams gear up for spring training, so we read plenty of our listeners fantastic emails, and some not so fantastic, as clearly, some of you still have hangups about sandals and men that wear earrings. Then we do some prospect talk and follow that up with our special guest Dirk Hayhurst, one of the most refreshingly honest players you will ever hear from, and we highly recommend his new book, Out Of My League. Then it’s the goofy stuff, including a talk about Real Genius and how it’s fair game to write about on a baseball site.
In the early 1960s, Baseball feared the rising number of Latinos in the game, but in this area, at least, the game has been a positive example for tolerance.