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May 18, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Defensive Edition

by Jim Baker

Can you win despite being inefficient defensively? Can you lose despite being efficient?

May 15, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Centurions

by Jim Baker

Two original titans of the American League square off in the Hub, while down in Tampa, a more ignominious battle is shaping up.

May 11, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Team Hopping

by Jim Baker

A battle brews in Flushing, Ryan Langerhans wanders across the major league landscape, and the D'backs fly below the (replacement level) radar in this week's batch of matchups.

May 8, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: A Trio of Musings

by Jim Baker

Jim highlights a mismatch in Milwaukee, an unlikely combo of dominant relievers, and the fade of a star center fielder.

May 4, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Baseball's Balancing Acts

by Jim Baker

A different way of approaching team pitching, and what exactly Roger Clemens' suitors are waiting for.

May 1, 2007

Prospectus Matchups: Power to the People's Player

by Jim Baker

Jim's wondering about Royal plunkings, A-Rod in history, and an improbable popular hero.

April 27, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Race to the Middle

by Jim Baker

Some surprising teams have been able to reach .500 or struggle to get there in the early going. Plus, the increasing rarity of double completion.

April 24, 2007

Prospectus Matchups: The Good New Days

by Jim Baker

Jim takes aim at the myth of baseball's halcyon past by revealing that today's game is better in nearly every way.

April 20, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Weekend Threesome

by Jim Baker

Jim addresses existential questions of quality, stealing (those who do and those who don't), and Smoltzian ambiguity.

April 17, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Knee-Jerk All-Stars

by Jim Baker

It's early, but that doesn't mean you can't have some fun tabbing the All-Stars on the basis of what's happened in the early going.

April 13, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Masses Rejoice!

by Jim Baker

Jim has the results of his reader architecture poll, with a few surprising results, and a few not-so-surprising ones.

April 6, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Good Fridays of Yore

by Jim Baker

Jim turns the clock back to examine some interesting contests played in the era when Good Friday games were rare.

March 30, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Opening Day Matchup

by Jim Baker

With the Mets facing the Cardinals in this season's long-awaited opener, Jim presses the history button.

March 23, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Hitting the Headlines

by Jim Baker

No headline is safe in this edition of Prospectus Matchups.

March 16, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Ranking the Venues

by Jim Baker

Motivated by a lack of sports venues in the American Institute of Architects' recent poll of top buildings, Jim opens the floor for readers to nominate the best and worst sporting facilities of all time from an architectural standpoint.

March 9, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: Little League Longing

by Jim Baker

There are plenty of Wikipedia entries that never make it onto the information superhighway--like Presley Wilkes' recollections of (very) amateur baseball.

March 2, 2007

Prospectus Matchups: Discount Division Winners

by Jim Baker

Jim talks about low-end titles and the teams that won them, ways to make your roto league a little more interesting, and a tourism trend you might want to employ in your baseball-watching plans.

February 23, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The 2007 Transient All-Stars, Starting Pitchers

by Jim Baker

Jim moves over from the lineups to the mound, and tabs starters who found new homes this winter.

February 16, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Third Annual Transient All-Stars

by Jim Baker

Jim tabs his group of the best bunch of team-jumpers from each league and at each position.

February 9, 2007

Premium Article Prospectus Matchups: The Column Reversers

by Jim Baker

Jim pays tribute to those players who don't slug much, yet still manage to get on base.

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