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Giants/Cardinals Series Preview
There's a certain kind of symmetry in the Braves leaving and the Cardinals arriving. For years -- decades, even -- it was the Braves who stayed competitive, no matter what freaky roster changes they needed to make. My favorite Braves move was Brian McCann's call up. Oh, we'll just take this...
10 May Day Predictions
1. All 4 starters for the NL West teams (Peavy, Kershaw, Jimenez, Johnson) pitching on Friday will post Quality Starts despite none of them sporting ERAs currently under 5.74. 2. David Wright will break out of his slump by hitting a homerun off of Chan Ho Park. 3. Mark Hendrickson will beat Roy...
Upset About Howard? Think Schmidt 1986 or Howard 2006
There's a group of fans and writers in Philadelphia who are pretty upset that Ryan Howard didn't win the MVP and Albert Pujols did. The argument is simple: Ryan Howard's monster counting numbers led his team to a first place finish and the playoffs; Albert Pujols' better overall season led his...
Pujols wins NL MVP
Just like the voters of SBNation predicted, Albert Pujols was named NL MVP today: Pujols won despite the Cardinals finishing in fourth place, the lowest spot for an NL MVP winner since Andre Dawson and Chicago Cubs wound up sixth in 1987. Howard led the majors in home runs and RBIs for the World...
Albert Pujols named NL MVP
Albert Pujols has been named the NL MVP. Good. He deserved it. UPDATE -- The vote totals are here. Manny finished 4th, Sabathia 6th. Tim Lincecum only got 9 total points. I'm trying to figure out how he can finish 1st in the Cy Young, but finished behind Sabathia, Lidge, Santana, and Webb in...
The 2008 SBN Awards...NL MVP.
And the SBN NL MVP is... National League 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points Albert Pujols 13 4 - - - - - - - - 218 Lance Berkman 1 2 3 4 1 1 4 - 1 - 113 Hanley Ramirez - 4 1 3 2 - 1 1 1 - 86 David...
bearing the cost
i’m getting really tired of writing about injuries. under other circumstances i might get out the ol' calculator and try to estimate, down to the run, the cost of albert’s absence; that’s the exercise i ran through back in 2006 when he hit the dl. but i’m not gonna bother...
still a lot to learn
a little while ago in a game thread, brian gunn pointed out that pujols has stopped taking so many walks. after drawing 41 free passes (12 intentional) in the team’s first 42 games (through may 14), albert accepted just 6 walks (2 intentional) in the 16 games since. is he expanding his strike...
cashing in
the cards won last night 11-3 to even their may record at 10-10. their slump with runners in scoring position seems to have run its course: wo RISPw RISPR/GW-L may 7-16 .299 .163 3.5 2-8 may 17-21 .316 .377 7.0 4-1 they went went 8 for 16 with RISP last night,...
300 blows
short post today; i’ave got another busy travel week, and another early a.m. departure (behind the wheel this time). for those of you who went to bed at a decent hour, the cardinals won 8-2 last night behind 4 home runs --- 2 by pujols, 1 by ludwick, and 1 by (who else?) cesar izturis....
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