Defensive Indifference

Now that enough of the season has been played so that sample sizes are starting to be somewhat meaningful, I thought I’d write about a few minor leaguers who have come out of nowhere and potentially catapulted themselves from obscurity to the land of legitimate prospect-dom. These are all players who were either unranked by […]

One of the most surprising things about the start to the 2008 season has been Indians’ LHP Cliff Lee’s utter dominance of opposing hitters in his first four starts. Coming off a 2007 in which he posted an ERA of 6.38 in 97.1 innings, Lee has a 0.28 ERA in 31.2 innings thus far this […]

Up until tonight, Jacoby Ellsbury was having a quietly good season. He certainly wasn’t matching the fanfare he generated last year during Boston’s World Series run. So what does he go and do? Hit two home runs in another comeback win for the Red Sox and kind of spoils what I’m about to write.
Ellsbury has […]

I would just like to direct our handful of readers, especially those who may not read firejoemorgan.com regularly (and if you don’t, you really should), to FJM’s latest post on an atrocious article by Jim Armstrong that just so happened to be published by Andrew’s very own AOL. It’s a fine job of deconstruction, […]

Well it took like 47,000 days for someone to take the whole Jim Rice HoF argument somewhere else, but Catfish Stew finally did. It doesn’t really add a lot to the meat of the debate, but it is an interesting bit of baseball/(fan?) theory. In short, he claims Buster Olney lost his debate with Rich […]

But not in a good way if you’re a Baltimore fan. According to Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune, the Cubs are closing in on a deal for Baltimore second baseman Brian Roberts. That’s not, though. According to Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the Orioles and Mariners are only one player apart from agreeing on an […]