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Archive for December, 2007
Of players and stats
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I have a confession to make. I am not a stat head. I am not one of these baseball fans that consider Bill James a baseball god, nor an I one of those baseball fans that carry their laptops with SPSS ready to create stats from last year’s raw data.
However, this little note in […]
Update to Bucs Blogroll
Sunday, December 30th, 2007After some procrastination, I have organized and made some additions to the Pirates blogroll. You can access the blogroll by clicking the “Links” tag next to my head or by clicking here.
The changes are self-explanatory. I made new categories based on whether the sites are specific to the Pirates or about Pittsburgh sports in […]
The World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates by Dick Groat and Bill Surface
Saturday, December 29th, 2007I picked up this book on ebay a couple of months ago for a pretty good price. The book dates back to 1961 and was published in the aftermath of the Pirates beating the Yanks in the series. It was the only book written about the 1960 Pirates (that I’m aware of) until longtime Pittsburgh […]
More on the 1994 Draft: The All-Star Team
Friday, December 28th, 2007Same deal as the previous post, but looking at the 1994 draft. In this case, I’m excluding any first round picks even though the Pirates picked Mark Farris before Nomar Garciaparra, Paul Konerko, Jason Varitek, Terrence Long and Jay Payton were selected.
Catcher - A.J. Pierzynski
First base - Wes Helms
Second base - Placido Polanco
Shortstop - Julio […]
More on the 1993 Draft: The All-Star Team
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Thanks everyone for your comments on th post about the 1993 and 1994 Drafts. RollingWave had the salient point that there wasn’t much talent available in that draft for the Pirates to have selected. He was right. The following is an All-Star team of guys the Pirates could’ve taken. So, no players that were selected […]
The Drafts That Doomed the Bucs: 1993 and 1994
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007After the collapse in the 7th game of the 1992 NLCS, the Pirates lost two marquee free agents in Barry Bonds and Doug Drabek. As a result of the free agent losses, the Pirates received two sandwich picks in the first round of the 1993 draft, a measure designed to help teams recover from the […]
Hamilton Shipped from Reds to Rangers; Count Me Disappointed
Friday, December 21st, 2007The Reds and Rangers pulled off a trade: Josh Hamilton is headed to the Lone Star State. The Rangers are sending top pitching prospect Edinson Volquez and minor league hurler Danny Herrera to the Queen City.
Charlie has some comments detail on the pitchers in the deal. Baseball America has even more.
Rather than look at this […]
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