Video: Q&A with Lee, Howard, Ibanez, Lidge
by Bill Baer on Monday, April 4th, 2011Posted in 2011 Preview, Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
Cliff Lee, Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, and Brad Lidge took some questions from fans at a Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce event. The 2011 On Deck with the Phillies Reception, a Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce event ...
Joe Posnanski’s 32-Best in 2011
by Bill Baer on Friday, April 1st, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 4 Comments »
Joe Posnanski, the Ted Williams of baseball scribes, offered his list of baseball's 32-best players in 2011. Why 32? I have little doubt that the following list is also a mess … but at least I know what I want: I ...
The Worst of Sports Journalism
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 8 Comments »
There's been a lot of terrible sports journalism lately, but the last few days have reeked of it. Craig Calcaterra commented on T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times, who childishly attacked Marcus Thames' integrity. Meanwhile, poor sports journalist ...
The Bad and the Ugly on Bleacher Report
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Posted in Media, Uncategorized | 31 Comments »
*Warning: This post has nothing to do with baseball or the Phillies. You may have ascertained that by the title, but it's worth mentioning before a 1,400-word essay.* If you're one of my followers on Twitter, you've probably seen me make ...
Rob Neyer Is Movin’ On
by Bill Baer on Monday, January 31st, 2011Posted in Media, MLB | 4 Comments »
UPDATE: It's official: Neyer has signed on with SB Nation. Rob Neyer announced on his blog today that he is hanging up his blogging spikes. Today, I hand off this space to whoever's next. I don't know yet who is next, but I'm ...
On Howard Eskin, Other Media
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 27 Comments »
You have no doubt heard about the Howard Eskin tiff with Roy Halladay by now. The Burger King lookalike criticized the 2010 National League Cy Young award winner's availability to the media. Patrick Berkery has the details for PhillyBurbs.com: In ...
Offseason Smug
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 6 Comments »
Well, you know, the Eagles had a great season and it was really fun to watch them develop and obviously we were all hopeful that they would have moved on, but hopefully the fans can enjoy some baseball here -- ...
Are Jayson Werth and Bobby Abreu Overrated?
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 47 Comments »
January is a super-boring month for baseball fans as there's not much going on. All the big names have found homes and all the trade rumors have died down. There is no excitement -- that's why Hall of Fame debates ...
The Insignificant Hall of Fame
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Posted in Media, MLB, Sabermetrics | 17 Comments »
At Baseball Daily Digest last year, I wrote an article by the same title in which I expressed the reasons why I no longer cared about the Hall of Fame. Last night, I was a guest on Steve Keane's (of ...
Dom Brown’s Hands
by Bill Baer on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 16 Comments »
At the Baseball Analytics blog, I used heat maps to verify that Mitch Williams' analysis of Domonic Brown seems to be correct: he needs to lower his hands so that pitchers can't simply throw him up-and-in all the ...
Loading ...
