"Derek Zumsteg should be ashamed to have such comprehensive knowledge of the history of cheating in baseball. Pete Rose gave me two to one odds this book would become a classic." -- Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
"Derek Zumsteg should be ashamed to have such comprehensive knowledge of the history of cheating in baseball. Pete Rose gave me two to one odds this book would become a classic." -- Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
Here is a little more background on Pelekoudas, who was the frontrunner for the position, though that may have changed:
His current job title is Vice President of Baseball Administration. He has been the economic/contract guy under Gillick’s reign. Roger Jongewaard, who most likely will not be back next year either, was the player [...]
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I’ll start with the guy I think will get the job, because he’s an organization man and Gillick gets to help choose the next GM, Lee Pelekoudas, and another guy I see in the email queue a lot, Paul DePodesta.
Lee Pelekoudas is a generic [...]
We have received word that Pat Gillick has stepped away from his post as General Manger. I will reserve my glee until I hear that he is not in charge of picking his own replacement, as is currently rumored.
The M’s fired hitting coach Lamar Johnson today. Or rather “Johnson and the Mariners reached a mutual agreement on Monday for Johnson not to return next season.”
You may recall we pointed out he sucked on this very site and wondered why he wasn’t getting any blame for the team’s offensive woes. I guess it just [...]
The DS (Disastrous Scheduling) games for this week:
Tuesday: Twins @ Yankees, 10:06 am, Marlins @ Giants, 1:06pm, Cubs @ Braves, 5:18pm
Wednesday: Marlins @ Giants, 1:06pm, Cubs @ Braves, 4:06pm, Red Sox @ Athletics, 7:06 pm
Thursday: Red Sox @ Athletcis, 1:06pm, Twins @ Yakees, 5:18 pm
Friday: Giants @ Marlins, 1:06pm, Braves @ Chicago
Saturday: Yankees @ Twins, [...]
I was impressed today by the ovations given Edgar (and, to a lesser extent, Moyer, Cameron, and McLemore). I think as fans Seattle is still acting stupid over Rodriguez, but this comes from the fact that if you’re a Mariner, and you play hard, do well, and you’re a good guy, we love you. People [...]
When you wade through the critiques of Box Melvin’s strategy, Pat Gillick’s acquisitions, Seattle’s strange love fest with Dan Wilson, and the front offices’ ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, you will still find one truth about the three of us who write here: We love baseball, and especially the Mariners. [...]
It looks to me like that’s telling us that AL hitters hit about .262/.331/.420 this season. I’ll bet we didn’t need any fancy stats to figure that one out.
And people were worried we weren’t going to have enough to write about. Pah!
Baseball Prospectus has a cool junk report, ‘Starting Pitchers’ Quality of Batters Faced‘. It’s the composite lines of all the hitters pro-rated yadda yadda yadda…
Gil Meche’s average dude faces is a .262/.333/.423 hitter
TTF, .263/.331/.422
Franklin, .263/.332/.419
Moyer, .262/.330/.419
Pineiro, .261/.331/.417
How’s that for amazingly useless information? [...]
