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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...
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....
the month that was
buzz bissinger might not like will leitch’s blogging, but he’s got to respect the dude’s managing. with 158 games down and 4 left, leitch still has the 1986 Replay Cardinals in first place by a game over the pond scum. they play their last home game of the season tonight against...
1-2-3, count with me . . .
welcome back, walter jocketty. the guys at SB Nation brother site Red Reporter asked my opinion of their team’s new gm over the weekend, and i gave ‘em some thoughts; read all about it. and au revoir, matt morris. he’s the second not-that-long-ago mainstay of the stl rotation to...
rob neyer Q+A: the art of storytelling
of yesterday’s game, the less said the better; fortunately i have an interview ready to go. last thursday i talked to ESPN’s rob neyer about his latest offering, Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends. neyer is often thought of as strictly a numbers guy, but that's not really...
making it last
let’s start with ankiel’s 17-pitch at-bat. it was nearly as long as the brewers’ entire 9th-inning rally (19 pitches); that’s what type of an at-bat it was. the pitch-per-AB data at Baseball-Reference’s playfinder index stretch back 20 years, to 1988. in that entire...
the beauty of low expectations
by far my favorite part of the weekend was watching brian barton leg out that triple on saturday. a veritable whiteyballer --- dude’s feet don’t even touch the ground when he runs. barton looks relaxed at the plate, seems to recognize pitches and make adjustments. he doubled on a 1-2...
play ball, take 2
well, jeff francis was pleased w/ the rainout anyway. troy tulowitzki was happy too. he tells the rocky mtn news he was initially frustrated when schumaker robbed him of extra bases in the first inning yesterday, but with the game having been rained out he’s now happy that schu made the grab...
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