Toronto Blue Jays
Season Previews: Toronto Blue Jays
With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, it’s time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We’re just gon…
23Feb2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
The Big Hurt is Calling It Quits
Frank Thomas is putting an end to his illustrious, 19-year career.The former Chicago White Sox slugger will announce his retirement during a news conference set for 11 a.m. ET this Friday at U.S. Cellular Field. At that time, the team will also announc…
11Feb2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Kevin Millar Wants To Hang With His Buddies In Chicago
ESPN has reported that Kevin Millar and the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a Minor League contract. However, a team spokesman said Monday that ESPN is a liar, liar pants on fire and no such agreement had been reached. The 38-year-old fist baseman, a caree…
2Feb2010 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Roy Halladay Will Sorta Miss Canada
Roy Halladay loved his (devastated) Blue Jays fans so much that he gave them a thank you card in the form of a full-page newspaper advertisement this Tuesday.[warm fuzzies]After 12 seasons with Toronto, the 2003 Cy Young Award Winner was traded to the …
22Dec2009 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Roy Halladay FINALLY Going Somewhere
If there’s one thing we dislike here at BLB, it’s teams pussyfooting around. The Toronto Blue Jays have held Roy Halladay hostage for over an entire season, but it looks as though they’re ready to ship him off to Philadelphia.In what should go down as …
14Dec2009 | Babes Love Baseball | 0 comments | Continued
Random Yankees Suck Video
Oh, Alfredo…if only you had pitched in the days before Hi-Def TV and Youtube. Check out the latest fan-spotted doctoring of the ball before MLB pulls the plug:
Please Stand By
We are having some rather serious technical difficulties here. Does anyone have a computer science degree that is better than my computer science degree? Because the endless cycle of rebuild-million-pitch-database/watch computer explode in flames/get new computer is what has lead to my retirement, which will probably last just as long as Rampage Jackson’s.
In the meantime, […]
The AAAA Bomber
Just in case you needed confirmation on how dead centre those fastballs that Randy Ruiz hit 600 feet (Ok, the furthest was only 422 feet according to Hittracker, and his first a mere 322, a classic Yankees fly-ball-no-it’s-out to the opposite field. For Video, here’s the first and second) were, here’s a lazily stolen graphic […]
Alex Rios Given Away
So after days of speculation and presumably hours of intense negotiations over Alex Rios, the Jays have traded him for…err…squat. The Hardball Times crunches the numbers here, which point out in fancy ways that we’re trading him at his lowest value ever, he’s an underrated defender, and if you think the Jays are going to […]
Can’t Hardly Wait
Asked on the Fan this afternoon what the general feeling in the clubhouse was about the team’s chances next year, Adam Lind tried to change the subject by saying nobody thought that far ahead, but “we just feel terrible for Roy”. I know he probably didn’t mean because it looks like Halladay is going to […]
More on the Rolen/Encarnacion swap
Over at Baseball Prospectus Rob McQuown has deemed the Jays/Reds deal the worst deadline deal this season (hat tip: BDD) in favour of the Jays, giving it an “outside chance that this will be looked upon as a disaster of Liriano/Nathan proportions”. Probably nothing you didn’t already know, but worth a look if you’re into […]
The New Guys
It now seems relatively official that the Jays are getting back Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Roenicke, and Zach Stewart for Scott Rolen. There’s going to be a lot of crying that this is a sign the Jays are not going to attempt to compete next year, but come on – when you get three young, cheap, […]
Rolen Traded
Spreading the word…apparently it is for Edwin Encarnacion and potentially Yonder Alonso, which would be a rather ridiculous coup by JP. I’ll keep babbling here about why if that is indeed the case, but you should probably just go to mlbtraderumours for updates.
Update: Maybe not…Ed Price says Rolen+Alonso is inaccurate. Which Twit do you believe?
Update: […]
How to topple the evil empire the Boston way
With brilliant SABR minds like Bill James in your front office, a wunkerkind of a GM, a few quality characters like our own Kevin Millar keeping things loose, and the willingness to spend what it takes for the last few pieces of the puzzl needed to go all the way.
Oh yeah, and drugs. Tons of […]
Ichiroed
Hello, all…this Bird isn’t dead, I’ve just been laboriously assembling million-pitch databases lately, only to see one computer after the other that I put them on promptly explode (no doubt overburdened by the sheer volume of baseball knowledge contained within).
I did manage to squeeze out my first foray into hit f/x at The Hardball Times, […]
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