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Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
This week’s new one is up, with insights about BJ Upton, Jeremy Affeldt, a slew of starting pitchers, Jeff Kent, and a disheartening evaluation of who might be more valuable at this point: Jason Giambi or Rocco Baldelli. Plus, Calvin Pickering!
Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
I filed then fled to the woods in the north of Maine. Well, Baxter State Park South Branch Pond. If you’ve been there you know why I was in no hurry to get back. Lots of canoing, hiking, and trying to figure out what they were thinking when they named those constellations.
We also came up with some of our own, including Marilyn Standing on the Grate and Willie Catching Vic.
The now old column has meditations on position scarcity, valueing wins and saves, drafting closers, and compares Rickie Weeks to David Wright as prospects. It also has stupid mistake. Rickie Weeks was the No. 2 pick in the 2003 draft (not 1993). Pardon.
Major League Baseball : Ask Rotoman
The new one takes on the Mike Gonzalez and Ryan Madson, the God Squad trio of David DeJesus, Angel Berroa and Juan Encarnacion, quality pitching at Coors, rain outs, and Orlando Cabrera. MLB.com says I’m the only one who knows the answers. I hope I’m the only one who understands the questions.
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Editorials / A new ballgame
Watching baseball in a movie theater? How did I miss this? Does anyone know if they’re still doing this? I’m going to be in Boston tomorrow.
A Bill James story from Forbes I stumbled upon because of the Bill James Index. Hardly essential, yet envigorating all the same.
Some years ago I had the idea that indexing the works of Bill James would be an incredibly useful project, though a terribly time consuming one. It’s the sort of perfect gig for someone who has an office job with lots of down time.
Stephen Roney has gotten the project underway, and the initial results appear to be helpful. You can find them here. The efforts of people like Stephen, which are laborious and certainly won’t be appropriately compensated, should be acknowledged.
Yet he’s just scratched the surface so far.
ESPN.com – MLB – Stark: Winners and losers
This is a pretty good survey of the draft day results. The f unny part is that the aggregate of the Mets’ two deals looks whacky, but if pitching coach Rich Peterson really can straighten Victor Zambrano out the Kris Benson acquisition isn’t a bad risk. Even though the odds of winning this year are long. And if Peterson really gives the Mets and advantage in signing Benson next year, all the better.
It still looks pretty funky to deal your three best prospects for two mediocre pitchers.
