The 2010 Over the Monster Annual Is Ready For You
by Randy Booth on Mar 3, 2010 10:00 AM EST
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PrintIt's been a long time coming, but it's finally ready: the 2010 Over the Monster Annual is here and is ready for your eyes.
Want to read it? Please, just say yes. OK, good. To download the .PDF file, please click the link below:
2010 Over the Monster Annual
I even made it bigger so, ya' know, you may accidentally click the link if you actually didn't want to.
In all honesty, there is a lot of great work in the 130-page Annual. There is a lot of original content that you will not find on this blog itself. It is only available in the Annual. That is worth the price ($0) of admission alone.
And it's not just the OTM writing staff that you're used to; we've got other great baseball writers contributing original content, as well.
The Annual covers the big league team, has a lot of minor league coverage, includes predictions for the 2010 season and recaps some of the best work on the blog in the past year.
Now I've sold the idea to you ... hopefully. Now go and read it and let us know what you think.
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Randy, Ben, Wolf, Logan, Andrew, Troy and the rest of the guys...
Thank You Very Much…I can’t say more than that!
"That was a lot of fun… You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer." Jeff Francoeur
Good work, one and all.
Haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but looks great. I’m a little upset that more of my Twitter predictions didn’t make the cut, but hey. ;)
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
I have a five-tool player in my pants.
looks great
I know Randy put in a ridiculous amount of time on this, and i’m psyched to read through all of it.
Wow, you weren't kidding when you said it was getting huge.
I need to go to class now, but I’m probably not going to be paying attention to what goes on there…
Yeah…
That Westmoreland interview calls to me.
USG
looks awesome.
The first few were great.
"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
-Tug McGraw
Great work Randy
I can’t read, so I could only look at pictures, but for the most part, they were pretty impressive. I’ll look at the rest when I get home.
Yours truly,
X
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
: )
Unless thats the sarcasm I’ve learned to expect from you Ben, gotcha. Like the illiterate signature X at the end there?
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
by David Harnden on Mar 3, 2010 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
No disrespect Logan but WTF?
While that number is undoubtedly skewed by Jose Iglesias’ $6 million bonus, it is essentially superseded by Randor Bierd and Che-Hsuan Lin’s combined bonuses of just $20,000
Randor Bierd is a Dominican RHP who’s a former Rule 5 Pick of the Baltimore Orioles.
Che-Hsuan Lin signing bonus is $ 400,000
On another note, quit frankly using ERA, RBIs and runs scored is not a very accurate way to evaluate a baseball player far less a prospect.
Other than that nice job.
"That was a lot of fun… You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer." Jeff Francoeur
Congrats on the Annual.
Very well done. Look forward to reading and rereading the whole production. I tip my cap to all involved in this publication.
" Play Ball "
I'm impressed.
Now I have a reason not be productive at work for the rest of the day, and maybe tomorrow. Sweet.
Gotta say, when I saw you were doing an "Annual"...
I thought oh maybe 20 pages at most. I think my jaw broke when it hit the floor when I saw you did 130 pages.
Unreal work. Unreal dedication. Fantastic stuff.
Just awesome.
Peter Abrahams wrote a piece on, who else?, Che-Hsuan Lin:
Outfielder Lin making good contact, but there’s one omission:
From general manager Theo Epstein on down, executives, scouts, and coaches in the Red Sox organization praise the athletic ability of 21-year-old Che-Hsuan Lin.
where’s my name Peter? I mean how could you forget the head of the Lin fan club? Sure, we have only one member now but still…Inacceptable!
"That was a lot of fun… You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer." Jeff Francoeur
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"That was a lot of fun… You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer." Jeff Francoeur
Great job!
Overall, the Annual is awesome.
I really liked the lead off article on Lester and the discussion on Theo’s strategic philosophies as a GM should be required reading.
The roster profiles were sorta inconsistent. I liked some, but many seemed completely … well, let’s just say not up to the journalistic quality of others.
I thought the capsules on Victor Martinez and Daisuke Matsuzaka were both concise yet complete and fair. They provide an accurate picture overall.
On the bad side, Jed Lowrie’s profile makes it sound like he’ll be sitting on the bench at Fenway. More likely, he’ll spend time at Pawtucket -not because he’s demoted, but because he is going to need ABs in order to redevelop his swing.
The Drew profile (page 67) seemed oddly simplistic and misuses ABs to indicate presence (or lack of) in the lineup when (especially for Drew) they should use Plate Apperances instead – and even that is potentially misleading because of the difference in PAs for guys batting 1-2-3 versus guys (like Drew, mostly) batting 7-8-9. The profile talks only about injuries and missed time – that seems odd coming off a year in which Drew played in 137 games.
I guess the roster profile was just so at odds with the point of the larger profile on Drew (being more valuable than the obvious numbers show him to be) that it stuck out.
There were a couple of other profiles that also struck me as missing the mark on the player in question.
These are pretty minor quibbles, though. I’d still give the annual an overall A+ grade!
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