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Shedding Light on Blackouts: Nothing Wrong with MLB’s Territorial Rights

Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB on February 4, 2015 | 52 Comments »

The blackout is one of the best things to happen to baseball fans in the last 20 years. Although conventional wisdom regards MLB’s blackout policy as a scourge, the truth is much different. Blackouts, which are based on territorial exclusivity, are the foundation of the sport’s economic system, and, it’s because of them that most […]

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Breaking Down Keith Law’s 2015 Top-100 Prospect List

Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees on January 30, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Keith Law has released his annual ranking of the top-100 prospects in professional baseball, and the Yankees managed to land only two players on the list. Aaron Judge (23rd) and Greg Bird (80th) were the Baby Bombers who made the cut, giving the Yankees their fewest number of entrants in Law’s ranking since 2010. Yankees’ Historical Representation […]

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Shifting the Blame: Are Defensive Alignments the Reason for MLB’s Offensive Resignment?

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Statistical Analysis on January 29, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Manfred’s reign as MLB commissioner began on the offensive. Or was it the defensive? That probably depends on how you feel about shifts. During an interview with ESPN, the new commissioner casually stated he would be “open to eliminating shifts” in an effort to “inject additional offense” into the game. Although a small part of […]

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Yankees Not Yet Ready to Reap a Prospect Bounty, According to Keith Law

Posted in Baseball, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees on January 28, 2015 | 1 Comment »

ESPN prospect guru Keith Law thinks the Yankees’ farm system is “trending up”, but still not ready to be cultivated. Thanks to a strong 2013 draft and aggressive foray into the international market, Law was more optimistic about the Bronx Bombers’ stockpile of prospects, but still ranked the team’s minor league system toward the bottom third […]

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Is Hall of Fame Headed for a Party of Five?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Hall of Fame, MLB, Yankees on December 31, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Over the past few years, Hall of Fame voters have become steroid addled. By refusing to elect candidates with links to PEDs, regardless of substantiation, voters have allowed each subsequent year’s ballot to become increasingly crowded. As a result, some electors have been forced to consider game theory as much as the individual merits of each player when casting their […]

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With Yankees No Longer Paying Top Dollar, Dodgers Become Baseball’s Biggest Spender; A Historical Look at Team Payrolls, Luxury Tax Payments and Revenues

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on December 20, 2014 | 5 Comments »

The Yankee dollar has been pushed aside by Dodger dough. For the first time since 2001, the Bronx Bombers did not end the year with Major League Baseball’s highest payroll. Instead, it was the Dodgers who were baseball’s biggest spender. And, it wasn’t even close. With a final payroll just over $257 million, Los Angeles […]

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Does Cashman’s Lie Speak to a Broader Truth?

Posted in Baseball, Brian Cashman, MLB, Yankees on December 10, 2014 | 8 Comments »

As expected, the Yankees’ bullpen swap of Andrew Miller for David Robertson was more about economics than an assessment of each pitcher’s potential performance over the next four years. By suggesting that Robertson priced himself out of the Yankees’ plans, GM Brian Cashman admitted as much. Considering the meaningful savings and relative competence of each […]

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