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MLB Team Front Office Exec: Hello Voros this is Joe Blow from the Mudville Nine (team and executive name changed to protect the innocent), we got your letter and wanted to talk to you.

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Enough with the giving, it’s time for me to take, take, take. You may not know it by perusing this high-tech 21st century blog, but here at vorosmccracken.com headquarters we’ve fallen well behind in the technology race; I’m reduced to penning these sorts of witty comments on borrowed equipment.

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Seems like for the near future, every time the Yankees or Red Sox win the World Series will have to deal with the complaints that teams are “buying championships.” This discussion on Baseball Think Factory is an example.

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I’m sure Dan Shaugnessy already owned the publishing rights to “The Curse of Voros” but it looks bad as the Red Sox need to avoid losing four straight to notch another World Series title (I won’t even get a watch for this one). I joke, but am happy for everyone there that I worked with […]

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Part 1 here. One of the things I always wanted to do with DIPS was to come up with a bit more rigorous way of calculating runs via only DIPS stats (BFP, HR, BB, SO, HBP). I’d always BSed it in the past, and the way I’m going to do it now is only slightly […]

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An article in the Chicago Sports Review, (H/T) Baseball Think Factory, got me to thinking about Curt’s Hall of Fame case. Looking at Schilling’s Baseball Reference page, the site lists two direct contemporaries, Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina, as close similarity matches.

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Jacoby Ellsbury just won a taco for everyone in the country. The Crunchy Ground Beef Seasoned Taco from Taco Bell has an estimated retail value of 77 cents, and the same nutritional value as a clump of Fenway Park sod. Taquitos.net has the full rundown. He’s a little hard on Taco Bell. This is the […]

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The baseball industry is like any other: interview well and you keep getting jobs. Act like I do? Food stamps, baby. On that note, Chuck LaMar has landed a scouting gig with the Phillies. LaMar, you might remember, was the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for most of their existence. While not […]

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Wow so people are already here. Okay. When you make your first comment, it gets held up in the queue for me to approve. After I’ve approved one of your comments, your comments should appear immediately after you post them. Why am I doing it this way? Don’t really know. I guess I don’t want […]

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My soccer friends all lick their chops that Baseball is going to be the one big sport it supplants in this country in its rise to national prominence. They certainly don’t want to hear me pipe in with actual facts and information (attendance records set, again).

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