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September Songs: Another MLB Source Index
Chris Carpenter’s lifetime September earned run average against the six teams his St. Louis Cardinals will face the rest of the regular season: 2.59.
Dan Haren’s lifetime September earned run average, period: 4.27, on a 7-12 record.
Adam Dunn’s September song: .219 BA/497 at-bats/20 home runs.
David Wright’s September song: .324 BA/.549 SLG.
Albert Pujols’s September/October song: .343/.602 SLG.
Troy […]
Rare, Medium, or Well Done?
Eddie Guardado may have his mileage but chopped liver he ain’t. But everyone’s having a blast with the Texas Rangers swapping Guardado to the Minnesota Twins (where Everyday Eddie first forged his none-too-shabby reputation in the first place) in, ahem, a rather meaty deal for a minor league pitcher named Mark Hamburger.
No, I would not […]
Meet the Mess, Better than Babe, and Other Endearing Old Charms: An MLB Source Index
There are questions far more important to the nation’s health than whether Barack Obama and John McCain will confirm H.L. Mencken’s dictum that democracy is that form of government whereby the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard.
To those questions, the answers follow:
Number of games the New York […]
The MLB Source Index: A Humbling Collection of Amusing Arcana
Jimmy Rollins’s batting line since calling Philadelphia fans “front runners” in a television interview during a West Coast road trip: 3-for-37. (.081 batting average.)
The Texas Rangers’ won-lost record and ERA before pitching coach Mark Connors and bullpen coach Dom Chiti were fired 1 August: 57-53/5.27. The W-L/ERA since: 6-12/6.19.
The total cost to the Los Angeles […]
No Bypassing Yaz
No, he didn’t actually have a heart attack. But the pouring forth of concern for Carl Yastrzemski sometimes took an elegaic air, in the hours after the Hall of Famer underwent a triple bypass following his hospitalisation after awakening with chest pains.
Had he really been that retiring since he retired as a player, showing up […]
” . . . and you’re asking me about Jeff Kent”
If you didn’t think there were more important things about which to bother than whether Jeff Kent really thinks Vin Scully talks too much (Kent reputedly took umbrage at The Voice’s on-air observations that he’s been seeing more deliciously hittable pitching with a certain Manchild hitting behind him in the Dodger lineup these days), you […]
Scouts’ Dishonour
Two top New York Yankee scouts—Carlos Rios, director of Latin American scouting; and, Ramon Valdivia, director of Domincan Republic scouting—have been purged for taking kickbacks from Dominican prospects, ESPN reported Friday afternoon.
Rios and Valdivia were on administrative leave as baseball government’s investigation into Dominican scouting kickbacks ramped up in earnest and were canned Thursday, the […]
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