One of my favorite, most underrated statistics in baseball, is the hold. I run a fantasy league every year, and Holds are always a statistic that I add to the league. I feel it give some validation to a middle reliever and counts accomplishments the way wins do for a pitcher or saves for a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Save’
December 27, 2007
Offseason Updates
I apologize to those who have been checking for updates and haven’t seen any in a while. I have been following everything in baseball, I just have not had time to write about it. In any event, I thought I’d do a little catching up. Mitchell Report I’d like to start by expressing my huge excitement that nothing in [...]
October 31, 2007
2008 Red Sox: What They Should/Could and Will Look Like in the Future
2007 is over. The Red Sox were the best team in baseball, best regular season record and a World Series ring. The best part about this is, 2008 is going to look largely the same. Here is a position by position analysis of what the 2008 Boston Red Sox will look like, and what they [...]
October 29, 2007
2007 Baseball Awards
It’s over ladies and gentlemen. 2007 was a great baseball season filled with records, magic, underdogs, and juggernauts. Now it’s time to take a look back and pick my Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, and MVP awards. These are my picks, not the actual winners, though I’m hoping they closely align.
AL [...]
October 26, 2007
Red Sox 2 – Rockies 0: The Sox Can’t be Stopped
Ubaldo Jimenez? Really? As someone who generally follows the American League much closer than the National League, I was awfully surprised to hear Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching game 2. I’m just so used to seeing bigger names in postseason play. I didn’t know much about this guy, just that he threw hard.
And throw hard he [...]
September 17, 2007
Sox Prove They’ve Got It
Another chapter in the Sox-Yankees rivalry has just been written. A fantastic September series between the two teams saw all that this rivalry has to offer. In a year where these two teams could meet in the ALCS again, we saw it all. Okajima/Papelbon blow a 7-2 lead and the Yankees have a come from [...]
September 10, 2007
No Save for You!
A few days ago (September 6), Jayson Stark wrote in his Rumblings and Grumblings on ESPN.com about changing the save stat.
I completely agree with him about the “flawedness” of the save, and also think something needs to be done about it.
First of all, I don’t think they will every change the criteria for the save. As [...]
