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The Year the Orioles Outspent the Yankees
The Hot Stove season is likely to be a fairly tepid affair for the Orioles this year. Rather than comb the current class of free-agents and potential trade targets I revisited the team's moves headed into the 1998 season, when the the O's became the first team in baseball to post a $70 million...
Today in Sports History: September 2nd
(Everett and Mussina. Photo by Lawrence Jackson, AP) 9/02/1972 - Pappas loses perfect gameMilt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs was just one out away from throwing a perfect game, from retiring all 27 batters without allowing a single base-runner. With his Chicago Cubs leading the San Diego Padres 8-0,...
Rivalry Thoughts
"The Thinker: A-Rod edition", via dugoutdiary.mlblogs.com State of the Rivalry So the Yankees come to Boston tonight. Color me nonplussed. It's hard to get too excited about one Sox-Yankee series. In the media they are presented as critical to the division race. But this significance is way...
This Week's Episode of: WTF?
With Ramirez enjoying his latest outburst against his favorite foe, New York reliever Kyle Farnsworth threw a 97 mph fastball behind the slugger's neck on the first pitch of the seventh inning, drawing cheers from the sellout crowd of 55,088. "It just slipped. I was trying to be aggressive and go...
Thinking About Mike Mussina
Using Gameday's pitch tracker (the setup for which you can read about here), I went back over Mike Mussina's first start to see if we can see a difference in his pitches. Now, the biggest knock I have on Gameday is its pitch recognition. These must be preset names given to standard ranges of speed...
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