We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Oakland Athletics.
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In 2007, the Athletics scored 4.57 runs per game.
I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. Tango did not project Carlos Gonzalez, and I couldn’t find [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:31 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 2 Comments
January 31, 2008
Wilkerson an M
According to USS Mariner, Seattle signed Brad Wilkerson. That probably means the Bedard trade is happening.
Update: Wilkerson gets $3 million for one year. I like Wilkerson and I hope he is healthy and rebounds from his last two down years.
Posted by David Pinto at 6:49 pm | Transactions | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2008
No Long Term Contract
Erik Bedard’s agent denies that the Orioles are working on a long term contract for the pitcher.
Posted by David Pinto at 3:37 pm | Trades | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 31, 2008
The State of Bedard
We know nothing, as Roch Kubatko tells us:
Meanwhile, just to recap: Half the nation believes the Orioles and Mariners are within minutes of completing a trade. The other half believes the trade is being held up while team president Andy MacPhail attempts to negotiate a long-term deal with Bedard.
Posted by David Pinto at 12:05 pm | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2008
Brocking Down Bonds
The Brock6 system nailed most of the rest of Bonds career after the 1996 season, but fell short on home runs.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:28 am | Predictions | Permalink | 3 Comments
January 31, 2008
Team Offense, Chicago Cubs
We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Chicago Cubs.
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In 2007, the Cubs scored 4.64 runs per game.
I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. For pitchers, I used the 2007 Cubs pitchers averages. Tango [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:42 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 8 Comments
January 31, 2008
C.C. Sees C-Notes
Jim Ingraham notes that one person benefiting greatly from the Santana trade is C.C. Sabathia:
I’m no NASCAR expert, but I am familiar with the principle in auto racing called ”drafting,” in which a car sits behind the leader, benefiting by the lack of wind resistance.
That’s Sabathia right now. He’s drafting Santana. Both pitchers are eligible [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:16 am | Pitchers | Permalink | 4 Comments
January 31, 2008
Follow the Butterflies
Garrett Broshuis gets in touch with his inner Ron Weasley:
A few days ago, I thought spring had arrived in St. Louis. It was 70 degrees and I was walking around without a jacket, frolicking through a meadow while chasing butterflies. (OK, so there weren’t really butterflies and I wasn’t really frolicking, but I was walking [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:05 am | Players | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2008
Sands of Time
The Mets have until 5 PM EDT on Friday to finish a deal with Johan Santana.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:00 am | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
January 31, 2008
21st Century Wheaties Box
Ryan Howard makes the cover of MLB ‘08: The Show.
“It’s definitely an honor, because I remember when I was 15 and playing video games, being in college and playing video games, making yourself up as a character on the actual game,” said Howard, the NL Rookie of the Year in 2005. “I always thought that [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:53 am | Players | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
Healthier Pitchers
The Pirates are taking steps to prevent so many of their pitchers from going under the knife.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:45 pm | Injuries | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
Draft Dollars
Peter Abraham notes the Yankees and Red Sox are spending a lot of money on draft picks.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:48 pm | Management | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
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 9:02 pm | Podcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
The Latest on Bedard
Oriole Central brings us the lastest news.
Posted by David Pinto at 5:03 pm | Trades | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 30, 2008
Baseball Musings Radio Show
The Baseball Musings radio show will be on TPSRadio tonight at 8 PM EDT. Check out TPSRadio’s other sports programming as well.
Feel free to leave a question in the comments to this post or during the show in the TPSRadio chat room and I’ll be happy to answer it on the air. If [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:42 pm | Broadcasts | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
No Santana in LA
Jon Weisman looks at why the Dodgers didn’t compete for Johan Santana.
Posted by David Pinto at 3:55 pm | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
Twins Reactions
Joe Christensen rounds up reactions of Twins players to the Santana trade. They’re mostly positive, in the sense that they’re glad the distraction is gone.
Posted by David Pinto at 3:42 pm | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
January 30, 2008
The Wrong Kind of K
Maury Brown reads between the lines and wonders if an umpire is a member of the KKK.
Posted by David Pinto at 2:39 pm | Umpires | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 30, 2008
Inside the Deal
Bob Klapisch details the inner workings of the Santana deal:
This was late Monday night, about 12 hours before the Mets would pounce upon their most dramatic trade in recent history. Twins’ general manager Bill Smith, in a panic to move Johan Santana, called the Yankees and admitted surrender: Phil Hughes was no longer a prerequisite, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:11 pm | Trades | Permalink | 9 Comments
January 30, 2008
Standing Pat
Purple Row worries that the Rockies are keeping the status quo while the rest of their league rivals are improving:
We’ve now seen three of the four other teams in that 88-90 win tier make upgrades this offseason, two significantly, as well as three of the four (Dodgers, Cubs, Brewers) in the 82-85 win range make [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:16 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 30, 2008
Team Offense, Toronto Blue Jays
We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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In 2007, the Blue Jays scored 4.65 runs per game.
I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. The lineups rate as follows:
Best: 5.15 runs per game
Given: [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:40 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 5 Comments
January 30, 2008
Adding Wins
How many wins does Johan Santana add to the Mets in 2008? It depends on who Johan is replacing. If you assume he’s pushing likely fifth starter Mike Pelfrey out of the rotation, then it’s a huge boost. Baseball Prospects (subscription required) rated Pelfrey at 0.5 wins above replacement in 2007. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:22 am | Trades | Permalink | 7 Comments
January 30, 2008
Breaking Down the Santana Trade
Aaron Gleeman looks at the details of the Santana trade.
In a perfect world Santana would christen the new ballpark with an Opening Day start in 2010 and wear a Twins cap on his Hall of Fame plaque, but for whatever reason his remaining in Minnesota never seemed to be a legitimate option once the trade [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:38 am | Trades | Permalink | 2 Comments
January 29, 2008
Girl Talk
MetsGrrl writes BatGirl and gets her thoughts on the Johan Santana trade.
Update: This is just cold.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:55 pm | Trades | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 29, 2008
Discussing Clemens
McNamee told Pettitte about Clemens drug use:
Pettitte and McNamee talked in 2001 and 2002 about Roger Clemens’s use of steroids and human growth hormone, McNamee’s lawyers, Earl Ward and Richard Emery, said Tuesday.
They said that Pettitte, who has acknowledged receiving H.G.H. from McNamee in 2002, will provide the first account of contemporaneous conversations with McNamee [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:38 pm | Cheating | Permalink | 6 Comments
January 29, 2008
He Must have ESP(n)
Bob Sikes saw a Mets deal for Santana coming in 2006.
Posted by David Pinto at 6:20 pm | Predictions | Permalink | No Comments
January 29, 2008
The Clemens Report
My latest SportingNews.com column finds the report by Clemens’s agent misleading. I think they had a chance to make a good case for Roger here, but by cherry picking data, they end up giving the opposite impression.
Dugout Central agrees with me that the report didn’t prove its case. Sabernomics, however, takes the data [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:32 pm | Cheating | Permalink | 4 Comments
January 29, 2008
Three Day Window
Baseball Digest Daily alerts us that the Mets and Twins agreed to a deal for Johan Santana:
The deal is pending the Mets and Santana reaching agreement on a six- or seven-year contract extension and that Santana passes a physical; they have been granted a 48 to-72-hour window to do so. Santana has a no-trade clause [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:27 pm | Trades | Permalink | 22 Comments
January 29, 2008
Team Offense, Baltimore Orioles
We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Baltimore Orioles.
Luke ScottPhoto: Icon SMI
In 2007, the Orioles scored 4.67 runs per game.
I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. The lineups rate as follows:
Best: 5.18 runs per game
Given: 5.12 runs [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:24 pm | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 1 Comment
January 29, 2008
$100 Million Not Enough
MetsBlog.com passes on a report from WFAN that Johan Santana turned down a $100 million dollar offer from the Twins. The dollars per season appear to be right, but Santana wants a longer term contract. I wonder if the Twins would be willing to tack on two option years that vest based on [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:00 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
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