Some people don’t like the fact that the Prospectus has focused so strongly on the economics of baseball this year. I don’t blame them. Personally, I don’t really care about how much money players and owners make. When I see newspaper articles that focus on what players make what money, I turn the page. I…
OK, so we’re 48 hours from an entirely different type of DTs, and the whitespace on ESPNEWS is becoming far more pronounced than it already is. Let’s dive in…. Ted Frank wrote a piece yesterday piercing holes in the luxury tax proposal put forth by the MLBPA. Today, Doug Pappas aerates Ted a little bit….
Since I have a case of writer’s block that could cause Stephen King to cut back to a novel a week or so, I thought I’d lean on some administrative announcements today. We’re working on getting player cards up again. We realize they’ve been down a while, and we’re kind of rolling that project up…
The MLBPA’s luxury tax proposal is bogus. There, I said it. The press coverage of the labor dispute, which has been sorely lacking in its failure to question the revenue/loss numbers of the owners, has been just as lacking in its failure to identify that the MLBPA has made a luxury tax proposal that will…
I recently sat down for lunch with a very old friend of mine with an affinity for baseball, finance, and philosophy. Lunch took about half an hour, and the ensuing conversation took about two hours. Since I’ve mentioned him before in this space, and he’s fond of his privacy, we’ll call him “Dave” for purposes of this column.
DO WE REALLY KNOW THAT HIGH PITCH COUNTS ARE BAD? "It’s an absolute shock. He has never even had a twinge in his shoulder or elbow." —Jeff Torborg, Marlins manager, on A.J. Burnett‘s "acute bone bruise" that may sideline him for the season "We didn’t see this coming. He has been a workhorse all year….
I recently sat down for lunch with a very old friend of mine with an affinity for baseball, finance, and philosophy. Lunch took about half an hour, and the ensuing conversation took about two hours. Since I’ve mentioned him before in this space, and he’s fond of his privacy, we’ll call him "Dave" for purposes…
Transaction Analysis, August 19-21, 2002.
Even as they take the lead in the wild card race, the Los Angeles Dodgers are dying. Only Jim Tracy’s magic keeps the Dodgers from seeing how chronic their situation is.
In Tracy’s short time as a major league manager, he has demonstrated a gift for turning others’ garbage into gold. Just as Chavez Ravine (park factor 91) makes Dodger pitchers look better than they are, it conceals just how well Tracy has done with the hitters he has been given.
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There are many who have wailed in the press and on television, saying that major league baseball will suffer catastrophic public reaction and possibly be destroyed entirely if a labor action means there’s no baseball on September 11th. Does baseball owe it to us to play on that day, and is it appropriate for us…
Transaction Analysis, August 15-18, 2002.
Channeling the spirits of Joe Sheehan, Jackie Harvey, and Peter Gammons…
Barry Bonds has a 290 point advantage in OPS over the #2 guy in MLB, Jim Thome. Dropping down another 290 points from Thome gets you to Tony Tarasco. Yeesh.