tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62122182009-07-10T19:54:09.409-04:00I got a big ego, such a huge ego. You love my big ego, it's too much, I can walk like this cuz I can back it up!Baseball Savantnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212218.post-53259360225334158282009-07-10T19:09:00.002-04:002009-07-10T19:54:09.428-04:00

MORE ON HALLADAY FROM BATTER'S BOXI should have looked at Batter's Box before I posted my Halladay article so I could have put this in, but I didn't touch too much on projecting Halladay out. To me it's a non issue and one that I'd just assume the risk on. However, the guys over Batter's Box ran a self describe quick & dirty analysis on Halladay's comparables by using Baseball-Reference's

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DOC HALLADAY LEAVING CANADA? WHY HE SHOULDN'T!There has been quite a bit of pixel used on Roy Halladay over at MLB Trade Rumors here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here. With the stature of a guy like Halladay there is no reason not to spend copious amounts of time wondering where he might go as it will affect pennant races quite a bit with services rendered.On the other hand, what does

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YANKEES A BEACON OF DEFENSE?Most of the time when you hear talk of the Yankees defense in the past few seasons it has always centered around what the Yankees don't do well. Whether it's Derek Jeter getting hammered for his defense and his undeserving Gold Gloves, Johnny Damon's arm, Jason Giambi's glove at 1B or even Alex Rodriguez's defense at 3B here lately because of his recent surgery.However

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IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSESimply the greatest MCs ever. It's downright spectacular before Doug E. Fresh comes out, but when he hits the stage, the Boys simply explode. They take a Run-DMC song and flat out own it.Can you even imagine being a part of NYC Hip-Hop scene in the early 80s?QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? E-MAIL ME! baseballsavant@gmail.com

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A LOOK AROUND THE STANDINGS ON JULY 4TH!Happy 4th of July! I thought it would be pretty interesting to take a look around the standings and give some thoughts as to what is going on seeing how we aren't that far away from the All-Star Game. With some teams already having reached 81 games, we are at the halfway point of the season.According to run differential the 4 best teams in the AL all play

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES OF THE WEEKIn his latest mailbag, ESPN writer Bruce Feldman had a question that wondered what game would Feldman attend each week if he could watch just one game live in person. Not only is the game taken into consideration but also the atmosphere and the rivalries of the games involved. Feldman said he would have more on this later, but the Savant is going to give this one

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KEITH LAW ON A-ROD & STEROIDSThere comes a point in time when it becomes superfluous to read ESPN about baseball because they really aren't telling you anything new or anything you couldn't figure out yourself if you've been around the game enough and have a pretty tight control on baseball analysis. Keith Law blows this concept out of the water as you learn something new every single time you

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UPDATED PROJECTED LEAGUE LEADERSIt's been about 3-weeks since I did a league leaders post so I thought I would go back and project the leaders in each league of specific categories as I did before. I'll start again with the American League and go from there.American League HittingHR: Pena (48), Teixeira (44), Bay (42), Kinsler (41), Cruz (41), Branyan (40), Hunter (39)RBI: Bay (153), Longoria (

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IS IT A SLOW DECLINE FOR A-ROD?In this recent post from ESPN's Buster Olney, some interesting things were said about Alex Rodriguez. Here is a relevant quote:"He looks like a record playing at a slower speed," said one talent evaluator who saw Rodriguez over the past two weeks. Said another, "He looks old. He's a first baseman. How many years does he have left on the contract?" This is Year 2 of

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL - PRESEASON TOP 10!The other day I was talking to Mrs. Savant and asking her if it was a bad thing that summer had just started, yet I couldn't wait for autumn because college football would be starting up again! While college football has yet to become a reality in 2009, College Football News provides us with their preseason top-10! It's fairly interesting so let's give it a

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THE SELLING OF THE BASEBALL SOULThe only real solution to all of this is what happened back in 1968 when Bob Gibson led the NL in ERA with a 1.12 mark while going 22-9, leading St. Louis to the World Series only to see the Tigers beat them in 7-games.At that point the powers that be thought baseball was too pitching dominated. While we today are sitting at 2.2HR/G, back in 1968 they were sitting

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WHOLE LOTTA HOMERS GOIN' ON!(Note: I'm going to talk about steroids but I'm going to make a point at the end. This isn't a critique but rather how the game is today as compared to the supposed steroid era.)Maybe I'm just reeling from last night's Packers/Browns game in which the Packers came back to win 14-12 with the TD the Packers scored last night in the 8th inning......what......inning? We're

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A LOOK BACK AT THE 1999 MLB DRAFTIt seems like every season the MLB Draft gets bigger and bigger. This past draft was the first televised version of its kind as MLB joined the NFL & NBA in televising the first round of the MLB draft. It was pretty interesting although Steve Trout was the only player to attend. Still, I think it's safe to say the MLB Draft is on the upswing.On the other hand, the

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MY TAKE ON RAUL IBANEZIbanez is the fastest player in Philadelphia Phillie history to 21HR. Currently Ibanez is hitting 322/377/674 on the year with 21HR and 58RBI thru the Phillies first 58 games. He's on pace to hit 59HR and drive in 162 runs.Keep in mind that Ibanez is 37-years old. He's in his 14th major league season. This isn't a guy who's having a career year at 26, 27 or 28 years of age.

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ARNETT & STOREN GETTIN' BUSYSo far we've had a couple of 1st round picks from this past draft sign deals. The Washington Nationals 2nd 1st round pick & #10 overall came to terms almost immediately. RP Drew Storen is projected to possibly get to the nation's capitol by the end of this season giving the Nationals some help in the bullpen.Arnett scopped the Brew Crew themselves with the update on

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RECAPPING THE 2009 MLB DRAFT - 1st ROUNDWith other venues of acquiring talent becoming more and more inefficient, teams looking to build up a championship caliber organization have to nail the draft more often to keep the pipeline of talent coming in. Because economic advantage theoretically shouldn't come into play here, the have-nots should be able to get cheap available talent. That doesn't

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THE NEW PHIL STEELE IS OUT! LET'S TALK IU FOOTBALLThe 2009 Phil Steele College Football Preview is out and of course it's never disappointing. I just picked it up a couple of days ago and it's about the only thing I've looked at for about 48 hours. I won't get into any details concerning predictions or what not but I did want to take some time to look at Indiana football. Let's take a look at the

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PROJECTED LEAGUE LEADERSWe are far enough along in the season to make final season projections based on current numbers and not get totals that are crazy out of line with what would really happen. Here are the projected final totals for some players.American LeagueHR: Teixiera (51), Cruz (48), Pena (47), Bay (46), Kinsler (43), Dye (42), Morneau (41), Scott (37)RBI: Bay (156), Longoria (151),

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FETCHING MASSIVE PROSPECTSHoward Megdal had an interesting post over at MLB Trade Rumors specifically talking about the St. Louis Cardinals inability to add payroll despite being in contention for the playoffs. It's a pretty interesting read but Megdal adds this at the end of the post:In a season when even the Yankees claim they can't add salary, it will be fascinating to see if the glut of

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SOME E.R. STORIESSo it's been awhile since I wrote down some patient encounters with my ER work. Anyway, this past weekend I worked an all-nighter so here were some highlights of the patients that I saw over those 13-hours.1. 50 y.o. female with hip painNothing really unusual here as far as her complaint. She said she was complaining of hip pain but there was no reduction in strength or range of

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McLOUTH TO ATL..........OR WHY PIT WILL NEVER WINLast night Atlanta did some serious dealing in their attempt to bolster the offense and help out their dreadful outfield situation by acquiring Nate McLouth from the Pirates for 3 prospects. Unlike most playoff caliber teams, the Braves have been working with essentially no offensive production out of their outfield spots. Garrett Anderson was

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PECOTA ADJUSTED PLAYOFF ODDS - AVAILABLE TALENTThe big prattle around baseball circles in the upcoming weeks is most certainly going to revolve around the potential players up for trade, departing from teams who have remote playoff chances to those squads who are questing toward October glory.To help us out are Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA adjusted playoff odds. Here they are for the A.L. and N.L.

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IMPACT PITCHER?I find it rather amazing that when you read trade rumors about teams acquiring impact pitchers, the name Brad Penny always comes up. Let's take a look at Brad Penny over the last two seasons:2008: 94.7IP, 10.6H/9, 4.8K/9, 1.2K:BB, 4.0BB/9, 1.2HR/9, 68ERA+2009: 48.3IP, 11.2H/9, 5.4K/9, 1.7K:BB, 3.2BB/9, 1.1HR/9, 81ERA+I can understand how you would mention Roy Oswalt, Erik Bedard

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MOST POPULAR TEAMS IN BASEBALL?Looking around the MLB team shops I thought I'd compile a list using the number of t-shirts, sweatshirts, fleeces and outerwear products for each team. If you equate the amount of those products offered by each team with popularity, then you'd guess that the top-10 most popular team in baseball are:1. New York Yankees2. New York Mets3. St. Louis Cardinals4. Boston

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TO YOU YANKEE HATERS......I'M JUST SAYIN'Because the Yankees didn't get out to a 25-0 start with all their off season spending, almost 99.9% of the haters out there who hate New York & the Yankees were talking about how stupid they were. Well....Mark Teixeira's OPS is now .965........I'm just sayin'.Alex Rodriguez's OPS is now 1.083.........I'm just sayin'.In his last 4 starts, C.C. Sabathia is 3

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