MLB Blog Poll Week 4 NL MVP Vote

Posted on April 29, 2025 by davidbloom

The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. The Blog Poll Voters is a group of some of the best writers the baseball blogosphere. This week we vote on the National League. This week I am making an [...]

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Brandon Webb Does It Again

Posted on April 28, 2025 by davidbloom

In a fitting tribute to the QS, Brandon Webb continues the Quality start steak going six innings with 0 ER and picks up the win to make it 6-0 on the season. Lets not forget who he was facing in Jake Peavy who also pitched a good game, but takes the loss.
I told you [...]

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Season Thoughts April Edition

Posted on April 22, 2025 by davidbloom

Its early on in the season, but if you look down the bench on many ball clubs, several things are already apparent.
Lets start with the Yankees. The Joe Torre era of the past decade will be looked as a period of stability for this great Yankee franchise. With Hank in charge now, he is bringing [...]

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Softball at 70 MPH vs hitting a baseball?

Posted on April 22, 2025 by davidbloom

In this video, Cal State pitcher and a Arizona Diamond Back pitching prospect takes on Jenny Finch in the science lab pitch for pitch.

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MLB Blog Poll Week 3 (AL Vote)

Posted on April 22, 2025 by davidbloom

The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. The Blog Poll Voters is a group of some of the best writers the baseball blogosphere.
American League Most Valuable Player Vote Week #3

Manny Ramirez - 382 points
Carlos Guillen - 132 points
Josh [...]

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American League MVP, CY, and ROY Ballot Week 3

Posted on April 21, 2025 by davidbloom

This post is how I will be voting in this weeks Poll which ranks top 3 in each of the award categories.
Rookie Of The Year.
Evan Longoria was recalled and signed to a long term deal all in his first week. I like Jed Lowrie as well who also got the call. Still, Nick Blackburn has [...]

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Big Frank Hurting after Release

Posted on April 20, 2025 by davidbloom

The word out of Toronto is slugging DH Frank Thomas who was benched days ago has been released by the Blue Jays. Big Frank who had 235 Times on Base, and 255 Total Bases last season certainly can still provide some offense with teams lacking in that area. It is certainly a [...]

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NL Voting after 2 weeks

Posted on April 20, 2025 by davidbloom

In our first vote of the blog poll for the National League , Albert Pujols earned the most MVP points, Ben Sheets earned the most CY Young points, and Kosuke Fukudome earned the most ROY points.
To see how out voting for week 2 went, here are the actual selections that were placed [...]

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Rays Buy IPO Evan Longoria

Posted on April 18, 2025 by davidbloom

I said previously that we use the Longoria decision as the measuring stick of where this Rays franchise is headed. In an unprecedented move, they took the 1990 Cleveland Indians blueprints of locking up your young players, and threw it out the door. In doing so, they are using the minor league [...]

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MLB Blog Poll Week 2 (NL Vote)

Posted on April 15, 2025 by davidbloom

The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. In doing so, you get a cumulative snapshot of the award winners, instead of the single end of the year vote. The Blog Poll voters are shown at the end of [...]

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