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When your team is served best if you loseDavid Pinto brings attention to the fact that the Cardinals get the Astros for two games this week, and it's in the Cardinals' best interest -- they've already clinched home field throughout the NL playoffs -- that the Astros win and become the NL Wild Card. St. Louis, as the...
September 26, 2005 Author: Matt Barr
Royal wee weeKansas City Royals beat writer Joe Posnanski solicited column ideas from Baseball Primer in spring training. Evidently, he got enough good ideas separated from the snark that he's back looking for what the brighest minds... reading blogs during the workday would do if they were running the sad-sack team. Below...
September 13, 2005 Author: Matt Barr A.J. BurnettI guess the Marlins want to trade A.J. Burnett and are talking to the White Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays, Angels, Padres and Dodgers. Burnett will become a free agent for the first time after this season. The Indians won't catch the White Sox but are in the thick of the...
July 13, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Closers and one-run gamesBrian O'Neill writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today (as of this posting the column doesn't have a permanent link) about the Pirates' league-worst 6-14 record in one-run games and correctly deduces that the main culprit is luck. But he tacks on a troubling discussion of Jose Mesa at the end:...
June 21, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Houston's problemWho's buried in last in the majors in runs scored? By a lot? The Astros are, 33 runs behind the Pirates. It's easy to finger Willy Taveras' leading off as the reason, but that's really not it. Taveras took over as the Astros' full time leadoff hitter April 25, and...
June 20, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Hard luckJake Westbrook is having a hard-luck year, and nowhere was this more evident than in yesterday's start against the Angels. Westbrook has been thumped for seven earned runs in two innings, nine in two and a third and six in three and a third this year, but in his other...
May 19, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Randy!David Pinto, suggesting he's a tools guy, has some baseball analysis you won't get anywhere else today: It should be an interesting weekend in the Big Apple, as I believe it's the first time a Wang has followed a Johnson in any rotation. That's a duo Bobby Cox should be...
April 29, 2005 Author: Matt Barr
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