All day long! It’s the modern day “Brock for Broglio“!
That might be a bit of a stretch, but Matt Holliday is a great Moneyball type player. Even with an “off” 2008 Matt Holliday had a .947 OPS. In 2007, when he finished second to Jimmy Rollins in MVP voting his OPS was 1.012. Now [...]
Would you trade Ryan Ludwick (.299 BA, and 113 RBI’s in 538 AB’s) for Yunel Escobar (.288 BA, and 60 RBI’s in 514 AB’s) ?
You betcha!
Even though Ludwick had an OPS nearly 200 higher than Escobar, I really think that Ludwick had an aberation year. Guys just don’t “get good” at age 30 like Ryan [...]
Tardiness of late is an understatement for my lack of posting. I get relatively strong traffic even though I don’t post very often, but I don’t do this for fame, fortune, or glory. I heart baseball. That’s the real reason for doing any posts at all. Besides, when I saw that the brockabrella domain was [...]
It’s been a tough week or so here in Cardinal Nation. Lost two out of three to the baby bears, lost the Phillies Series, saw two BIG trades for pitchers with the Brewers and Cubs, and the team is sorta in the duldrums.
So let’s mix it up a bit and talk about Baseball, Cold Beer, [...]
With 9.26% of the Cardinals season elapsed already and the Cubs already mathematically eliminated (SORRY, I CAN’T HELP IT!) I thought I’d uncover a few interesting stats/facts about the Birds on the Bat.
Yadier Molina – Yadi leads the league in “At-Bats per Strikeouts” That’s the rate of failure at the plate calculated by dividing the [...]
