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The Curious Case of Bobby Jenks
He may not be aging in reverse, but Bobby Jenks might be the unlikliest of smart pitchers in baseball. A former HS dropout, Jenks was waived by the Angels essentially for being immature. 10 months aft...
What Signing Francisco Rodriguez Means For The Mets
Year K/9 FIP FBvel Miss% 2005 12.16 3.09 93.3 30.0% 2006 12.08 2.72 94.8 31.8% 2007 12.03 2.70 93.6 33.9% 2...
The Mets and the Closer Market
On the whole, the closer market seems to be echoing its Wall Street counterparts, as the prospective cost of high-end commodities has been dropping by the day. Francisco Rodriguez may have scared off ...
Fantasy Baseball: NL Closers
Of all players drafted on a roto/fantasy baseball team, the closer spot has more volatility than a day of trading at the NYSE...well....not in the past month or so. History has shown that he who start...
What Will The Mets Do Without Billy Wagner?
So, yea, this happened. Billy Wagner will undergo left elbow surgery and miss not only the remainder of the 2008 season, but most-if-not-all of the 2009 season. I think most of us were prepared for th...
Closer BABIPs
BABIP is a stat becoming more and more accepted as a signal for pitchers whose WHIP and ERA are due for a fall or rise depending on an unusually low or high BABIP. This appears most applicable t...
Chris Perez Could Close in St. Louis
It's possible that there could be a new closer in St. Louis come next week following Jason Isringhausen blowing another save last night, and as he put it "[P]itched like a second grader." With a meeti...
Street on Fire
Reports indicate that Billy Beane would like to lock down Huston Street. Why is the move so un-Beane-like and why does it make sense for the A's? When Billy Beane took over as general manager of the O...
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