Yesterday, David Appelman of FanGraphs took yet another step toward making his site the best online baseball destination. There are a lot of great news sites, a handful of great places for analysis, and more and more quality stat sites (as you might guess, my favorite kind of site) every day. David has now added […]
Month: April 2008
Braves Check: Everybody Hurts Edition
You just knew that eventually Mark Teixeira was going to emerge as one of the team’s top hitters. That wasn’t supposed to require injuries to the rest of the lineup, although that appears to be the way it’s going down. Oh, and the Braves are 0-8 in one-run games. Sometimes, baseball can just be cruel. […]
Schedule for the week of April 28, 2008
Monday/Tuesday: Braves Check Wednesday/Thursday: Post on something else Friday: Post on something else, or if I have enough going on, Notes Here are the possible “other” post ideas: Reviewing the 49ers’ NFL Draft (remember, I do actually have a favorite NFL team….they just haven’t been much fun to talk about for a few years, and […]
State of the Braves Bullpen
I don’t really have any news to report today, so I’m going with some more analysis. Stats are through Wednesday’s game. The current state of the Braves’ bullpen is not strong. With Soriano, Gonzalez, and Moylan ailing in various degrees, that is to be expected. This is not news, and it probably shouldn’t be alarming […]
Whither Matt Diaz: Thoughts on Left Field
After two years platooning with players who subsequently have bounced around the league having trouble finding jobs, Matt Diaz probably felt a little more comfortable with his job heading into 2008. The right-handed batter had earned a starting spot outright, OPS+ing 114 and 124 in 2006 and 2007 while showing an inconsistent platoon split (he […]
Braves Check: April 21, 2008
Last week started on kind of a low note, with a couple of losses in Florida, but Chipper Jones decided he was tired of losing and carried the Braves through a 3-game sweep of the Dodgers over the weekend. His health status is up in the air, of course, but he’s the current NL batting […]
Schedule for the week of April 21, 2008
Here’s what I’m planning to write about this week, and it all has to do with the Braves. I’m not going to presume anyone actually cares what order I go in unless someone says otherwise. Monday: Weekly Braves check Friday: Notes Other Braves post ideas for the middle of the week: The Left Field Dilemma: […]
Weekly Notes: April 18, 2008
Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about this week: I had planned to explore this in depth, but I got way too far off-topic with what I was writing to even think about posting it. Here’s the condensed version: This week in the Wednesday night Bible class I’m teaching (3rd-5th grade), I had […]
Braves Check: Where Atlanta beats Pythagoras into submission
We’re just two weeks into the season, and it’s almost becoming a chore just to watch the games. If it’s close, you just get the feeling the Braves are going to lose. The bullpen hasn’t been good, and the starting pitchers aren’t lasting long enough to give them a break. The lineup’s only piling on […]
2008 Braves WPA Stats Posted
Links to static pages are on the sidebar. I have separate pages this year (including much more detail) for hitting, pitching, and relief. Last week’s stats are now in Monday’s post. 2008 Hitting Stats 2008 Pitching Stats 2008 Relief Stats I’ll be updating these pages each week on Monday, with the goal of having my […]
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