All Dodger games on KCAL will be in HD this year!
Posted by David Pinto at 9:42 pm | Broadcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2007
Baseball Musings Radio Show
If you missed tonight’s show, you can hear the recorded version here. It’s also available on demand at TPSRadio.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:04 pm | Podcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2007
Baseball Musings Radio Show
The Baseball Musings Radio Show is coming up in a little while at 8 PM EST. You can leave questions during the show in the TPSRadio Chat Room, which moves to Stickam this week.
Posted by David Pinto at 7:17 pm | Broadcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2007
Rockies Positives
Jacob Luft is changing his mind about Colorado:
But after taking a closer look at Colorado’s talent corps and the moves they made this winter, I have to admit I’ve been selling them short. They won only 76 games last season but played five games below their run differential, so they were really more like a [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 6:59 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 6 Comments
January 31, 2007
Lester Better
My Baseball Bias links to good news on Jon Lester. He’s in Florida working out and cleared to resume baseball activities. Nice to see him doing so well.
Posted by David Pinto at 6:55 pm | Illnesses | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 31, 2007
Bonds Not Quite a Giant
The commissioner’s office negated the contract struck between Barry Bonds and the Giants:
The unusual provision could set off a legal test between the rights in an individual player’s contract and rights under the union’s collective bargaining agreement. The language, included in the deal that was completed Monday night, is designed by the team to protect [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:27 pm | Free Agents | Permalink | 3 Comments
January 31, 2007
Baseball Musings Radio Show
The Baseball Musings radio show will be on TPSRadio tonight at 8 PM EST. Check out TPSRadio’s other sports programming as well.
You can stop by the chat room at TPSRadio during the broadcast and leave a comment. We’re trying Stickam for the chat this week, so there are no logins required. Also, feel [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:12 pm | Broadcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2007
Rest for the Melk Man
The Yankees pulled Melky Cabrera from finishing the winter league season:
Cabrera played the last part of the winter league season in the Dominican Republic and participated in the playoffs, said Mark Newman, the Yankees’ senior vice president of baseball operations.
“We’ve asked that he shut it down at this point. It’s been a long year for [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:03 am | Players | Permalink | 6 Comments
January 31, 2007
Message from Repoz
Baseball Think Factory is currently offline. Repoz sends this explanation:
“Currently the database server is off-line and the operations center is
having difficulty getting it back online.”
Let’s hope the difficulty goes away soon!
Posted by David Pinto at 10:06 am | Blogs | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 31, 2007
More on Hitting Batters
Dan Fox weighs in with some more information on hit batters. He brings up the increasing size of the batter as a contributing force.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:06 am | Injuries | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2007
Where’s Theo
Some commenters wondered why Theo wasn’t so involved in the Todd Helton negotiations. He’s been busy:
The Red Sox general manager threw a shutout at the paparazzi, gossip columnists, nosy sportswriters, celebrity bloggers, and any other potential wedding crashers by sneaking off earlier this month to marry Marie Whitney, and also managed to keep their [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:56 am | Management | Permalink | 8 Comments
January 31, 2007
The Other Zambrano
Victor Zambrano signed a minor league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Unlike the recent signings of starters John Thomson and Tomo Ohka, Zambrano won’t be 100 per cent at spring training. But he could be ready by mid-season, perhaps able to give the Jays a boost should one of their starters struggle or get injured.
”We’ve [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:17 am | Free Agents | Permalink | 3 Comments
January 30, 2007
Hitting Batters
Steve Treder explores the hit by pitch explosion at The Hardball Times. To sum up the article, it’s a combination of unintended consequences (rules to lower hit batters seem to have raised them) and more security leading to risky behavior (more padding makes batters more likely to lean over the plate).
However, I would like [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:34 pm | Injuries | Permalink | 10 Comments
January 30, 2007
Out Clause
The AP details the out clauses in Barry Bonds’ contract:
As part of the agreement, if Bonds is indicted the Giants have the right to terminate it under two sections of the Uniform Player Contract, a baseball executive said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce that detail.
Under 7(b)(1), a team may [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:09 pm | Free Agents | Permalink | 2 Comments
January 30, 2007
The Right Time to Bunt
Chronicle of the Lads presents a very good post on how Mike Scioscia uses the bunt effectively.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:24 pm | Strategy | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2007
Red Sox Racing
The owners of the Boston Red Sox are getting involved in NASCAR racing.
For Roush Racing, before the ink so much as congeals on John Henry’s John Hancock, Roush will have unlocked doors for his Nextel Cup program that have largely been sealed to NASCAR team owners, namely those blocking sponsorship opportunities and fans in the [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:33 pm | Management | Permalink | 2 Comments
January 30, 2007
Walk Year
Athletics Nation is carrying on their yearly interview with Billy Beane. It looks like Beane is using a pitcher’s walk year to his advantage (emphasis added):
Blez: You mention Joe Kennedy when you brought up the rotation. Does he go into camp as the front runner for the fifth spot in the rotation?
Beane: [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:08 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | 2 Comments
January 30, 2007
Springing into Action
A.J. Pierzynski appeared on the Jerry Springer show as a guest bouncer. Which is a perfect excuse link to a video:
Posted by David Pinto at 12:44 pm | Baseball Jerks | Permalink | 4 Comments
January 30, 2007
Get Well Soon
My best wishes to the Soxaholix for a speedy recovery!
Posted by David Pinto at 12:42 pm | Blogs | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2007
Paying For Video
There’s a bit of controversy in Kansas City over who should pay for a new video system:
On a long flight from Seattle to Kansas City, Mariners outfielder Raul Ibañez can study on his iPod every pitch thrown against him last season by the Royals’ upcoming starter, Luke Hudson. All of this is thanks to state-of-the-art [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:06 am | Stadiums | Permalink | 8 Comments
January 30, 2007
No Deal for Helton
The Rockies announced the Todd Helton deal with the Red Sox is dead:
Rockies managing general partner Charlie Monfort said Monday night the team broke off talks with the Boston Red Sox about dealing Helton to the American League team, virtually ending the possibility the franchise’s all-time leader in almost every offensive category will be dealt.
Helton, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:56 am | Trades | Permalink | 8 Comments
January 30, 2007
Coach Exchange
The Yankees are going to tutor the Chinese on baseball:
The New York Yankees agreed Tuesday to send coaches, scouts and trainers to China to help boost interest in baseball, furthering a push by the major leagues into one of the world’s fastest-growing sports markets.
Under the agreement, the government-backed Chinese Baseball Association will send staff to [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:41 am | International | Permalink | 9 Comments
January 30, 2007
Wilkerson’s Recovery
The Dallas Morning News details Brad Wilkerson’s rehabilitation from shoulder surgery:
He called Arlington-based trainer Derek Southers, who worked with Wilkerson’s wife, Dana, during the season, and asked him to spend the winter in Florida. As a beefy bad dude, Southers was no match for Chuck Norris in a few episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, but [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:34 am | Injuries | Permalink | 5 Comments
January 30, 2007
No Entourage
Barry Bonds signed his new contract last night, and he’s losing space in the San Francisco locker room:
Bonds’ one-year, $15.8 million contract was made official Monday night, and one of the contract’s provisions is that the left fielder can’t have his entourage — notably his two personal trainers — anywhere at the ballpark, including the [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:19 am | Free Agents | Permalink | 5 Comments
January 29, 2007
Winning Changes Everything
Broadcasts of 161Tigers game hit the air this season:
An announcement today brought further validation of the Tigers’ return to prominence: They will play only one non-televised game this year.
FSN said in a news release that it had acquired the rights to a club-record 151 games, a significant increase over last year’s 130-game package with Channel [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:03 pm | Broadcasts | Permalink | 7 Comments
January 29, 2007
Weaver Deal Finalized
Jeff Weaver passed his physical and is now a member of the Seattle Mariners:
The deal with the includes $1 million in performance bonuses for the 30-year-old right-hander, who helped the St. Louis win its first World Series title since 1982: $300,000 each for 180 innings or 28 starts, and 190 innings or 30 starts, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:38 pm | Free Agents | Permalink | 6 Comments
January 29, 2007
Fowler Gone
Art Fowler passed away:
Fowler, as pitching coach, won World Series rings with the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978, under manager Billy Martin, his close friend.
Fowler worked as a pitching coach for 14 years. In addition to the Yankees , he was with Minnesota , Detroit , Texas and Oakland.
Fowler peaked [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:29 pm | Deaths | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 29, 2007
Why Perkins?
Gordon Wittenmyer points out that Glen Perkins could make the Twins rotation, but he never gives you a good reason:
Poor run support and a middle-innings wall that Perkins seemed to hit early in the season contributed to a 2-11 start at New Britain. He pitched well enough for Eastern League managers to vote him to [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 5:44 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
January 29, 2007
Payroll Questions
DRays Bay thinks the Tampa Bay payroll is just fine this season:
Now, one thing he left out is that a player and the organization have to mutually agree to a contract that benefits both parties. Given what we have seen organization like the Blue Jays spend unwisely the past year, does spending money guarantee success? [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 5:33 pm | Management | Permalink | 3 Comments
January 29, 2007
Let’s Get Physical
Barry Bonds takes his physical today, meaning the Giants and the slugger worked out their contract differences.
Bonds traveled to the Bay Area from his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the physical. If the 42-year-old star and his oft-injured knees check out OK, he’ll sign a one-year deal for $15.8 million.
He can earn another $4.2 [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:11 pm | Free Agents | Permalink | 4 Comments
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