Archive for February 2005

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February 28, 2005

Pitching Depth

Posted by Mike J. | 1:52 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Go read Rich Lederer’s interview with Bill James at Baseball Analysts. After Rich’s series on James’ Baseball Abstracts, he knows so much about the material that he’s surprising James himself with the quotes that he throws back at him. Its good stuff.
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Today’s quote from Mesa (this seems to be turning into a daily “thing”) is […]

February 26, 2005

Opening Day Goodies

Posted by Mike R. | 12:42 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

You know baseball can’t start soon enough when I get excited at the announcement of the opening day starters. According to the Chicago Tribune, Dusty Baker has decided to start Kerry Wood in the first game of the season, followed by Mark Prior and Greg Maddux and then Carlos Zambrano in the home opener. Personally […]

February 25, 2005

Anybody Got Tickets?

Posted by Mike J. | 1:31 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

The mad rush to buy tickets for the 2005 season is at full speed, and as of 1:40pm CST the following games have already sold out except for a few single seats:

Apr 8 vs. Brewers
May 21 vs. White Sox
May 22 vs White Sox
June 10 vs. Red Sox
June 11 vs. Red Sox […]

February 23, 2005

The Phil Rogers Dept.

Posted by Mike J. | 1:01 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Magglio Ordonez is looking good in a Tigers uniform, apparently at 100% in time for Spring Training. Phil Rogers is reporting that Ordonez is showing no ill effects from his knee surgery:
“He did everything his new teammates did in the first full workout–agility drills, fielding drills and batting practice, including some live swings off the […]

February 22, 2005

Bits and Pieces

Posted by Mike J. | 5:07 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Three items today. No more, no less.
1) I found out that two of all-baseball.com’s most knowledgable and talented writers are moving in together in a new home. Bryan Smith of Wait Til Next Year and Rich Lederer of Rich’s Weekend Baseball BEAT are now writing at The Baseball Analysts. If you never read them at […]

February 19, 2005

Why Am I Up Early On Saturday?

Posted by Mike J. | 10:49 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Reading a chat transcript at Baseball Prospectus with Nate Silver, their PECOTA projection guy, I came across a little snippet that reminded me things aren’t as bad as they seem. Here Silver responds to a comment from “Jim Hendry”:

Jim Hendry (Toddlin’ Town): Not to worry, Nate. I’ll trade big Brian Dopirak (or B-Dope, as I […]

February 18, 2005

The Return of JoBo?

Posted by Mike R. | 9:05 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Call me desperate for any good news on the closer front as of late but in between all the fluff on Cubs.com from spring training there was an interesting note about Joe Borowski. In the article, Borowski claimed he was 100% and that he felt like he did two years ago. Now normally I would […]

February 17, 2005

Sweet, Sweet Content

Posted by Mike J. | 1:10 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Not a lot of real news, but at least there’s plenty of quotes from the players who have arrived for Spring Training. Including the pitchers and catchers, Todd Hollandsworth, Corey Patterson, Jerry Hairston Jr., and David Kelton all showed up before Monday. If Jason Dubois were there, all of the Cubs’ question-mark outfielders would be […]

February 16, 2005

Pitcher Predictions

Posted by Mike J. | 2:22 pm | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

Pitchers and catchers have reported to spring training, meaning that there might be some semblance of news possibly coming out of Mesa, Arizona now.
What lies in wait? Carrie Muskat’s article at cubs.com sums things up nicely and brings some ignored storylines back into the mainstream. To honor the beginning of spring, I’ll outline them and […]

February 14, 2005

Are We There Yet?

Posted by Mike J. | 11:26 am | Old Style Posts | Comments: 0

As I sit back and continue to wait for pitchers and catchers to report, I notice that its just about time for predictions to start rolling in. There’s one for the NL Central at MLB.com by Jim Molony that does a pretty good job covering all the bases and it includes links to spring training […]