BBA Selects Kimbrel, Valverde For Goose Gossage Award‏

October 19, 2011 by Seamheads · 1 Comment

In earlier voting this postseason by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel won the Willie Mays Award for top rookie handily while the American League race for that award was much tighter. With the Goose Gossage Award, handed out to the best reliever, Kimbrel got to see how the other half lives, […]

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The 2010 Pennant Winners (How They Came to Be)

October 26, 2010 by Daniel Hirsch · 1 Comment

Using Bill James’s Win Shares, I’ll take a look at how each World Series team was formed. The information can be found at my site The Baseball Gauge. This page compares all of the 2010 teams. The percentages refer to the team’s percentage of Win Shares that came from each category with their rank in […]

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