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To celebrate the new year, I’m going to re-live a famous signing from the past. Remember back in 1998 when the Royals signed Hideo Nomo. I just found a copy of the article on Reuters while doing a search on Nomo. Those must have been heady times for the Royals, acquiring a big named former […]

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You gotta hand it to Kenny Williams, not all of his trades are bad. I’m not sure this one is a great one either. Certainly the team is improved a bunch in the near future, but Gonzalez and De Los Santos both look like Grade A pitching prospects from a system whose number of actual […]

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With all of the HOF arguments being smacked around right now, to me the more interesting question is not who should go into the Hall of Fame, but how many? My initial slapdash observation would be about two per birth year, but there’s so many other factors to consider (population growth, addition of players from […]

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I didn’t get it when the White Sox signed him last year and I still don’t get it now. Darin Erstad signed a one year deal to be Chris Burke’s replacement on the Astros. Okay that’s a little unfair to Chris Burke, Erstad will play in the outfield and be a left handed hitter.

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(H/T) to Baseball Think Factory Back in the late 80s there was a real problem with illegal doping in Japan and this was one of the results: Merry Christmas!

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Whatever it is you’re celebrating right now (even if it’s celebrating that Brian Sabean isn’t your team’s GM), have a happy celebration. I’ll be back with more scintillating content on Boxing Day.

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In Depth Statistical Analysis

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My dad’s White Sox continue to add Hispanic middle infielders. Cuban SS/2B/OF Alexei Ramirez reportedly is on his way to 35th and Shields. Ramirez apparently led the Cuban league in home runs this year, but then I led the Norwood Park Pony League in Home Runs one year and you don’t see me in the […]

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A (H/T) to Andrew Johnson at the Defensive Indifference blog. First they launch a terrorist attack against Boston and now this baseless smear. I’ll have you know the number of ‘roid/bourbon high balls me and Big Papi have downed together is no more than two dozen, tops. What’s amusing is that similar sorts of bizarre […]

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These are, as best as I’m able to calculate, the pitching totals for non-pitchers in MLB from 1946-2006. IP H HR BB SO ERA BFP HBIP lgHBIP 313.2 370 44 206 139 6.51 1505 .298 .278 Now it’s possible I screwed up with database and don’t have the right numbers, but I looked it over […]

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