2009 preview Stories - Over the Monster
SB Nation Mountain West Conference preview
Block U, along with the Mountain West Connection, Vanquish The Foe (BYU) and Mid Major Madness, put together a pretty solid 2009 preview of the conference. TCU was pegged the favorite to win the conference, with BYU and Utah rounding out the top-three. For full disclosure, I actually have Utah,...
SB Nation NL East Roundtable
Over the past week I participated in an a roundtable discussion with the other NL East bloggers of SB Nation. We talked about this past offseason, the upcoming regular season, and took a few gentle potshots at each other. This is a long one, which should help kill some time on your Friday as you...
Know Thy Enemy: Tampa Bay Rays 2009 Preview
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Indians rotation preview (part 3)
Jeremy Sowers We are all painfully familiar with Jeremy Sowers at this point. Top draft pick thought to be a short trip away from bigs even his ultimate ceiling was not the caliber of some prospects. And that was pretty accurate, as he debuted in Cleveland with quite a bit of success in 2006. ...
NL East WAR Projections: Infielders
Continuing our NL East WAR projection series, today we're going to take a look at the division's starting infields. Once again I've used Baseball Prospectus's depth charts to fill in the gaps of my pitiful knowledge of other teams' players; I've used Sky's awesome WAR spreadsheet to do what my...
NL East WAR Projections: Starting Rotations
I used the projected starting rotations from Baseball Prospectus's depth charts and WAR was calculated using Sky Kalkman's spreadsheet. For innings pitched and ERA values I averaged the Bill James, CHONE and Miner projections available at FanGraphs. None of those systems projected Kenshin Kawakami...
Edes previews Red Sox for 2009
Old friend Gordon Edes of Yahoo! posted his preview for the Red Sox last night: This will be the first time since 2001 that the Red Sox begin a season without Manny Ramirez in the middle of the lineup. No one is pretending that Jason Bay is Ramirez, but Bay’s 128 OPS+ in his two months...
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