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Career WAR Trifecta Quiz
I'm going to present ten sets of three well-known players who were major leaguers in the retrosheet era. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to identify which player in each set accumulated the most career WAR (through 2008), as calculated by Sean Smith. The leader will have at least 5...
Are You Smarter than Jim Bowden? Answer: Nope, looks like he gets to pick my profile image
Steven Strasburg signs for 4 years, 15.67 million Link In the June 15th issue of ESPN The Mag Jim Bowden is quoted as saying for what amount and when Stephen Strasburg will sign for with the Nationals: "August 15 at 11:57." -three minutes before the deadline - to a contract in the 15...
We Have A Graphs Contest Winner
Congratulations to VictorW, who created the winning entry for our graphs contest. He'll receive a copy of The Hardball Times 2009 Annual, chocked full of forty articles from excellent authors (including Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski, John Dewan to name just a few.) His winning flowchart walks us...









