Archive for the ‘A’ Category

Odds and Ends

I’m heading down to Baltimore tomorrow morning to catch a couple Sox-Orioles games with my aunts (the way the team’s season has gone, I might actually be catching by Wednesday night. See what I did there?) and uncles. There’s a lot of packing (translation: I need to watch my wife pack my bags) [...]

Make Sure You Have Your Playoff Procedures In Order, People

I was all set to make myself a bunch of little note card cheat sheets containing the playoff procedures for Minor League Baseball’s leagues, then I realized how complicated some of these scenarios get. Soooo, change of plans – I’ll just link here to the pages that detail each league’s procedure, and we’ll have [...]

The Z-Meter 8/11/2010

The Z-meter is our way of tracking the prospects we like. We keep track of stats for 25 players at a time, compiled from Baseball America, reader votes, and our own irrational sense of whimsy.
A couple of the players who made it onto the meter via reader voting ended up starting their seasons in the [...]

Comparing Chris Carter and Willie Mays

When I first read that the Oakland A’s were sending Chris Carter back down to Triple-A Sacramento after a dismal start to his major league career, the first person I thought of was Willie Mays.
Bear with me.
As I remembered it, Mays started his career on a long hitless streak before settling down, breaking out, and [...]

Hey, Anybody Wanna See A Miracle Tomorrow?

I spent part of the morning today trying to figure out how to write about the goings-on in the Golden Baseball League this season, from the appearances of players Eri Yoshida (the Knuckle Princess) and Mark Prior to the folding of the St. George Road Runners to the hateful anti-gay tirade of Edmonton Capitals manager [...]