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Swing the Damn Bat! (Saber's ego-stroking and failure to make a deadline incarnate)

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by Saber

We've covered how to run a pitching staff, specifically, into the ground with workloads that would kill actual men. But now that you have a winning staff, how do you score the runs to support them?

A Useful Bat

I don't need to tell you to have the best batters possible. Unfortunately, that's the hardest part. Player acquisition is a difficult beast to tame, and the subject of another article. But what makes a useful bat? Let's look at each component of offensive ratings.

Which current AL players have the chance to make the Hall of Fame?

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by browntown653

No individual honor in baseball is more exclusive than entry into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. The gold busts in Cooperstown are said to immortalize the legends of the game - just a quick glance around and even the average baseball fan will recognize the greatness. Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, Mathewson, Young, Aaron, Mays, Rose…OK, sorry about that last one. But with the fairly recent additions of Craig Biggio to the 3,000 hit-by-pitch…er, hits club, and Frank Thomas to the 500-HR club, the Hall of Fame has once again become an issue worth debating.

Little Action But I Still See A Few Players Being Moved

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By redsrbetter

Today is the 29th day in July which brings baseball fans closer to the moment they either praise or curse the general manager of their favorite ball club. We are just three days away from the non-waiver trade deadline.

Margaritaville? I am game after seeing the statlines for some of these guys.

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by Kingdom_of_Zito

It's easy to pay a guy a lot of money to sign for your team, right? But it's just as easy to pay that guy as it is for that guy to sit their in your lineup, wasting away... in Margaritaville.

The Comeback Part 2 (Thunder Down Under)

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by missionhockey21

Has a hand injury really caused the resurgence of Griffey? One could argue so. Yet a case could also be made for the move to rightfield giving Griffey a reason to prove the doubters wrong which has been a motivational simulator for him in the past, and adding gasoline to the fire, the doubters have been his own team. By that same token one could argue with the Reds hitting him early on at 4th and 5th in the lineup, out of his customary 3rd being yet another motivator.

A poor man's bias-free All-Star Ballot!

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by browntown653

We’re just over one-third of the way into the 2007 MLB season, and already, promos for the All-Star Game are consistently floating across the league website. The casual fan might think this is slightly too early for All-Star voting to begin…they may be right, but unfortunately it started A MONTH AGO. MLB’s All-Star voting starts notoriously early and at this rate, fans wouldn’t be surprised if they were given those cute little ballots with hanging chads during spring training. Yet one thing remains constant; for the most part, fans don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Manny Ramirez? Ivan Rodriguez? The fans are actually much better than usual so far, but there’s a few guys who are obviously getting by on name recognition only, as always…so without further adieu, I give you a poor man’s ballot for the 2007 “3/8th All-Stars…”

A Quick Look at 2006 and How Various "OPS"es Predicted Runs Scored

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by Fishercat

Baseball has long been a game based in statistics. Henry Chadwick devised the box score over 100 years ago, and since then, players have been judged by statistics. Cars were won with batting titles and baseball resurged after the Black Sox scandal on the power of the rarely used HR, when Ruth made it the ideal hit rather than an ignored facet of the game...

2008 Mock Draft

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by redsrbetter

A lot of baseball fans are in favor of the team that they are homegrown into. When I say homegrown I mean either they live in or near the city in which the baseball team plays their home games or their families have groomed them into becoming a fan of their team. In a lot of cases, it is both.

Roger Clemens and His Potential Impact on the 2007 Season

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by Fishercat

Last Sunday, the Yankees and Mariners were playing a Sunday matinee. The Yankees fans had to be relatively happy around the 7th inning stretch. The Yankees were ahead of the M’s by three runs, with Darrell Rasner pitching shutout ball through five and two-thirds with Proctor and Henn picking up the last one and a third. The...

(And Daisuke)

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by missionhockey21

We’re nearing one and a half months of play in this 2007 MLB season and after one of the most debated free agent markets we have seen, it’s time to determine if the contract is a Milano or a Pavano. For those of you who don’t know your baseball gossip, shame on you is the first thing I have to say and secondly Alyssa Milano and Carl Pavano were once an item a few years back and given that we...