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March 11, 2011
What You Missed
3/7-3/11
by Stephani Bee
Here at Baseball Prospectus, we are dedicated to providing you with oodles of cutting-edge sabermetric analysis and keeping our finger on the pulse of the baseball world. With a slew of daily articles, it’s easy for one piece to get lost in the shuffle or for you to overlook a post while you’re busy hiding your monitor from your boss. Just in case this happens to be your situation, here’s what you might have missed this week at BP.
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Monday
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Winning 85 games should be enough to catapult a team to the verge of contention. General managers might spend the offseason shopping like Lindsay Lohan in a jewelry store. OK, no five-finger discounts, but GMs would likely look for hot buys. However, Toronto’s head honcho, Alex Anthopolous spent the winter shuttling two of his club’s top contributors, Vernon Wells and Shaun Marcum, out of Canada. Tommy Bennett breaks down the logistics of the Blue Jays’ offseason and whether their decisions were wise.
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Perhaps now the Phillies will feel the pain of not signing a second nine-figure deal during the offseason. As Steve Goldman explains, now that Domonic Brown’s hamate bone has snapped, Philadelphia will be forced to go to Ben Francisco, who may have a flower in his hair, but won’t bloom in full-time duty.
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The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference took place last week, giving baseball nerds ample opportunity to quench their fancy. David Laurila grabbed the chance to speak to BP alum Jonah Keri, John Abbamondi, the San Diego Padres’ vice president of strategy and business analysis, and Arizona Diamondbacks scout Joe Bohringer about sharing ideas, scouting and stats, and how the Rays work.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
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Commissioner Bud Selig has had a tentative tenure, with steroids, an All-Star Game makeover, revenue-sharing, and a player strike just a few of the plethora of ups and down on his roller-coaster ride. Through it all, the ol’ Commish’s transparency about baseball’s issues has been murky at best. Emma Span details Selig’s secretive nature and uneven decision-making.
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While the Cubs and Royals probably won’t be marching toward October baseball this year, taking in a contest between the teams provides an abundance of flashbacks and quirks to examine. Christina Kahrl contemplated the past, present, and future of both franchises and their players while settled in HoHoKam Stadium’s press box.
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Some managers are set in their ways. “But I have to have a speedy guy atop the order!” one may exclaim, despite the fact his burner has a sub-.300 OBP. “He ain’t in a slump,” another may say, channeling his inner Yogi. “He just ain’t hittin’.” However, as R.J. Anderson shows, good skippers limit the opportunities of their worst players.
Friday
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