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• Checking The Numbers: Fielding Distrust

  
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  The increased relevance of defensive metrics in recent years has led to a bevy of cost-cutting activity across the league, as teams are beginning to exhibit a greater understanding of the value of saving runs with the glove. Solid defense is tantamount to success, but it does not translate to deeper bank accounts like ...
  6 days ago

• Barry Zito Signing Reactions From 2006

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 731
  On December 28th, 2006, the Giants signed 28-year-old lefty Barry Zito  to a seven-year, $126MM contract with a full no-trade clause.  At the time, it was the largest deal ever for a pitcher.  Keep in mind that if Zitos 2014 option vests, his contract will end up paying $137MM.  Henry Schulman and Susan Slusser ...
  6 days ago

• Mauer is Nearly Unanimous as A.L. M.V.P.

  
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  Joe Mauer was the first A.L. player since George Brett in 1980 to lead the league in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  6 days ago

• Book Review: Cheater BBQ

  
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  You know, no one likes a cheater. Whether it is Barry Bonds with his “clear and the cream”, Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky or even Ivan Boesky on Wall Street, we as Americans frown upon cheaters. You were taught in grade school that “cheaters never prosper” and for the most part that is true. But when ...
  1 week ago

• The Daily Habit: Football

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
    11:59 pm I Flipped off Buffalo Bills Fans and Got Fined $250k? – NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Boy, the nerve of some of these professional sports league commissioners.  They must think that they’re gods or something, what with the way they run things in their neck of the woods.  Take that rat fink Bud Selig ...
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• Where Was This Barry Bonds When He Played?

  
  You Been Blinded - Now in Dazzling HD — Authority: 585
  Barry Bonds was known as a surly bastard by the media when he played. Some of it was the media grinding an axe and some of it was Barry’s handling of the press. The combination usually made for BS answers from Bonds if he felt like talking at all. Now that he’s out of baseball and hanging out in Hollywood ...
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• Highs & Lows Of UZR 2007-09: Adam Dunn

  
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  In a remarkable come from behind loss, Adam Dunn managed to out suck Brad Hawpe right at the finish line to steal this title from him. Though Dunn cannot claim to be as consistently poor as Hawpe, he can lay claim to the single worst season by UZR in this covered period.Fangraphs
  2 weeks ago

• No Mumbling: Mark McGwire Must Open Up During Cardinals Introduction

  
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  None of us are fans of harping on the past, but when the past collides with the present, well, then, we have an issue. It’s been four years now since Mark McGwire plopped down in a congressional hearing and stated that he was not there to “talk about the past,” but more specifically, his alleged steroid use and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Odds & Ends: Bonds, Bay, Astros, Mulder

  
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  Another stash of links for the afternoon... FOX Sports Ken Rosenthal says Red Sox GM Theo Epstein will have to be creative to keep the team competitive in both the short and long-term. Contrary to a report last month, Yahoos Tim Brown says former Mets executive Tony Bernazard is not working for Scott Boras. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dock Ellis & the LSD No Hitter

  
  We got more bounce in Columbus. — Authority: 144
  In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black or white, Sosa still blames the cream

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 433
  Regarding all matters in the “what the ####” category, Sammy Sosa is saying that a cream he uses makes him substantially whiter . Now, this could be the same cream that made Barry Bonds’ head the size of a watermelon and Mark McGwire forget the past.
  2 weeks ago

• Letters: Fairness of Pittsburgh fans

  
  Bob Smizik's Blog — Authority: 534
  Saturday, 1 a.m.   Q: I may be in the minority, but I thought the intense booing of Brett Farves return to Green Bay on Sunday was classless by the Packer fans. No matter the reason for his departure in 2008, he has given the Packers 16 years of great, competitive football including one Super Bowl championship. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Most valuable losers

  
  11th and Washington — Authority: 107
  When Chase Utley hit his second home run in Game 5 of the World Series, giving him five against the Yankees, the discussion began about who had been named Series MVP from the losing team. Since the award was first given (in 1955 to Johnny Podres), only one player had ever earned the honor but not a championship ring: ...
  3 weeks ago

• November 4, 1980: Sadaharu Oh Retires as Baseball’s “Home Run King”

  
  JoeSportsFan.com — Authority: 133
  November 4, 1980 On this day 29 years ago, Sadaharu Oh retired from the Yomiuri Giants in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball League.  He retired with 868 home runs, which still ranks ahead of current Major League Baseball career leaders Barry Bonds (762) and Hank Aaron (755). Many people don’t observe Oh ...
  3 weeks ago

• The 2009 MLB Season Has Belonged To A-Rod

  
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  The 2009 Major League Baseball season began with the startling revelation that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003. That was followed quickly by a bizarre and totally unbelievable admission from A-Rod that a cousin had bought performance-enhancing drugs for him and he didn’t really ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hank Aaron Award Is Latest Hardware For Albert Pujols

  
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  Albert Pujols is closing in on a dominating sweep of postseason hardware.Cardinals Official SiteCardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, who figures to win his third National League Most Valuable Player award next month, won a second Hank Aaron award Sunday night.Cardinal BeatAlbert Pujols: Wins Aaron Award Again
  4 weeks ago

• Cardinals Minor Matters 11-1-09

  
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  Remember the days when you looked forward to being the first in the family to grab the Sports section from the Sunday morning paper and devour it from start to finish?The Cardinal Nation Blog
  4 weeks ago

• Allowing Mark McGwire Back Is A Cardinal Sin By Bud Selig

  
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  So the commissioner of baseball thinks it’s peachy-keen and okey-dokey that Mark McGwire will be the new batting instructor of the St. Louis Cardinals?That’s interesting.Boston Globe
  4 weeks ago

• Cardinals Are Major League Franchise Of The Decade

  
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  Major League Baseball doesnt need a mythical national champion. It can generate enough arguments on its own. But there is one ongoing debate worthy of discussion Team of the Decade.Chicago Tribune
  4 weeks ago

• Mark McGwire Being Embraced By Baseball, But He Robbed The Game

  
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  When most people think of Mark McGwire, one of three things enters their minds:Sports Illustrated
  4 weeks ago

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