Posted on January 31, 2026 by davidbloom
For the fantasy baseball enthusists out there, aside from the must-have Baseball Prospectus Annual, another book that seems to be getting alot of positive chatter is the John Burnson’s Graphical Player 2007 . Here are two positive reviews : [1] [2].
The FanGraphs site has access to some of the projections other than Pecota in [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2026 by davidbloom
It always seems like I am always busy defending the Rays. Interesting how Joe Maddon is signed to a two year contract concluding this season. Is he just there to develop the kids until next year when the Rays ownership takes out their checkbook?
do you really see Barry Zito signing on to [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2026 by davidbloom
In the recent rule V draft, Josh Hamilton was made available to any of the major league teams.
The Reds took a shot on him and plan to give Josh Hamilton a legitimate shot to make it.
Just like a movie the Natural, Josh Hamilton is a baseball prodigy who has his promising career [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2026 by davidbloom
This is a new feature where I do a roundup of what I consider best work from this week in the baseball fom the blogosphere.
The Tiger Tales by Lee Panas has done some good work on defensive metrics with his Aggregation of Fielding measures.
D.A. Humber like me says give B.J. a chance .
The Past Time [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2026 by davidbloom
The year was 2004. We were hearing how Sweet Lou was growing tired of Vince Naimoli’s act of not giving him enough groceries to field a winning team. Well, a year removed from his end of his tenure with the Devil Rays, its seems Lou has gone to Disneyland. The Tribune who has a long [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2026 by davidbloom
Its preview season over at Beyond the Boxscore and Jeff Sackman (who contributes just about everywhere in the baseball blosgosphere) takes on the Devil Rays. In the comments section there I suggest a move to 1B for Upton or Cantu. I compared it to Greg Jeffries moving there to 1st after they ran out of [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2026 by davidbloom
Just a short post on the GM rankings I came across on the Fox web site. He ranks Friedman pretty low. Its real easy to say the Rays did not impove the pitching with household names. However, if you take a detailed look at what came the Rays way from the Dodgers , Royals(Gathwright) , [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2026 by davidbloom
I was just checking out the Fan House from AOL to check if they would venture into baseball blogging with pitchers and catchers reporting in less than a month. Its almost as if the basball does not exist as a sport over there. Over at NBC Sports, they are RotoWorld oriented now with Aaron Gleeman [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2026 by davidbloom
It is mid January, and you find yourself bummed that the team you were hoping to root for all season long on your Television won’t be there now that baseball has followed the NFL and is going steady with Direct TV. Well, I guess there is always MLB.TV
There is plenty of time before pitchers and [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2026 by davidbloom
I was reading the Joe Maddon interview where he talks about Cantu whiffing ending the eighth inning from last season:
JA: Cantu swung at somebody’s splitter in the dirt.
JM: Yeah, that ended the 8th. We left 14 runners on base last night. And on the surface it looks terrible. But if you look at our at [...]
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