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A Historical Look at the Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry (Updated)

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged on April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Fenway Park celebrates its 100th birthday with a rematch of the inaugural contest that pitted the then New York Highlanders against the Boston Red Sox. In that Saturday afternoon game on April 20, 1912, the Red Sox celebrated the opening of their new ballpark in style, winning on a “walk off” infield single by Tris […]

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Melancon Has Nightmarish Outing, but Yanks’ Kammeyer Still Owns Inning of Greatest Infamy

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged on April 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Before the Red Sox acquired A’s reliever Andrew Bailey, and after his subsequent injury, Mark Melancon was considered to be a potential closer. Now, he may finally get that opportunity, but not in Boston. According to recent reports, the embattled reliever may be headed for the minor leagues. Melancon’s fall from grace culminated in yesterday’s nightmarish […]

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Opening Day Oddities; Blue Jays and Indians Play Longest Game; Valverde Perfect No Longer

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , , , on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Opening Day, or at least yesterday’s version of it, pitted the two teams with best and worst Spring Training records. The Toronto Blue Jays just wrapped the second best spring winning percentage (.774) in a non-labor impacted season since 1984, while the Cleveland Indians turned in the lowest rate of success (.241) over the same […]

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Examining David Ortiz’ Historic Strikeout Rate Decline

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Red Sox, Statistical Analysis, tagged on March 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »

ESPN’s Dave Schoenfield, custodian of the SweetSpot blog, recently pointed out a remarkable statistic: in exactly one fewer plate appearance, David Ortiz struck out 62 fewer times in 2011 than 2010. Incredibly, there is very little precedent for such a decline. Besides Ortiz, only one other player in baseball history struck out 62 fewer times in consecutive 500 […]

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Made for Cable: RSNs Fill Baseball’s Coffers; MLB Revenues Continue to Rise

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged on March 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »

The business of baseball is very good, and one of the big reasons why is cable television. According to Forbes’ most recent look at the game’s economics, MLB’s 30 teams combined to earn net-revenue of over $6.3 billion, a 3.6% increase from last year’s record total.  And, of that total, nearly 15% came directly from […]

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Catch-22: Yadier Molina’s Bat Once Again Puts the Cardinals on the Defensive

Posted in Baseball, Hot Stove, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Rumors, Spring Training, Yankees, tagged , on February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »

A St. Louis Cardinals’ All Star is entering the final year of his contract and has given the team until the end of the spring to negotiate an extension. Talk about déjà vu all over again. Granted, Yadier Molina doesn’t come close to the stature of Albert Pujols, but during his seven years with the Cardinals, […]

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A Further Look at Keith Law’s Organizational Rankings

Posted in Baseball, Draft, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, ESPN’s Keith Law released his annual list of the game’s top-100 prospects. Although the real value is in the individual player write-ups, there were also some interesting trends gleaned from breaking down the ranking by variables such as franchise, position, and age. So, today, we also take a closer look at Law’s organizational list. […]

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