Which Way Does Davey Johnson’s Second Act Go?
July 5, 2013 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
Davey Johnson was Manager of the Year in 2012 because he brought out the best in a team few picked to win much of anything. Patience and quiet confidence in his players worked those wonders. But this year that same enduring belief in his players has become equal parts tragedy and comedy. Not comedy as […]
Clearing The Bases
June 11, 2011 by George Kurtz · Leave a Comment
The baseball season is more than 1/3 completed, the weather is warming up, and pennant races are starting to shape up. We are in mid-June; no longer can any player state that they are in a slump. Slumps don’t last two plus months. With that in mind we are going to take a look at […]
Fresh squeezes from the Grapefruit League
March 16, 2010 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment
Making baseball predictions public is always a bad idea. Somebody always gets hot, or gets hurt, and players can stumble into hot streaks or slumps — some of them lasting a full season. Media types who predicted the Washington Nationals to revive in 2010 were greeted this spring with 11 consecutive exhibition game defeats. That’s […]
