This Week's Links (2/25-2/29)

I am going to Tucson for the weekend. Hopefully they can hang with UCLA on Sunday. Probably not. At least it'll be warm.

Tiger at +1015 to win the Grand Slam? Not so fast.

Pomeroy with a fascinating look at shot selection.

A fan asked Steve Phillips to sign his jersey, "Steve Phililps, Met Killer". That is awesome.

60 Minutes is going to run a feature on Bill James.

Comparing this year's Rays team to the '69 Mets.

Jon Heyman makes up a new derogatory term for the sabermetric crowd: VORPies.

Yahoo:

A leaner, more muscular Victor Martinez stepped into the batter’s box Friday morning on one of the back fields at Chain of Lakes Park.

You know it. The Indians also won their ST opener.

Early Links

There was a ton of good stuff this week, so I'm going to split it up. There is no way I am going to do anything productive during the Notre Dame-Louisville game anyway.

"Statistical profiling" of true talent levels- including a comparison of the career paths of Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.

In this corner, Joe Sheehan's "Sign Barry Bonds" column. Opposing it, Ken Rosenthal's "Bonds playing in '08 would be bad for baseball" piece.

NJIT did it. 0-29. Congratulations.

Miggy Cabrera has a very appropriate B-R sponsor.

How did Brandon Phillips hit 30 homers last year? Partially because 14 were "Just Enoughers".

This Week's Links (1/21-1/25)

This doesn't really belong in the links, but UCLA won @Oregon without Mbah a Moute or Mata-Real. That is impressive.

The Dave Lozo 2007 NFC Championship Live-Blog was quite a roller coaster.

Predictably, Carl is quite happy.

UNC-Asheville's Kenny George dunks without jumping. Really.

There is a 54.8% chance that NJIT goes 0-29.

"Royals leading Santana Race?"

I thought this was a good line:

"Seriously, I can’t figure Kenny Williams out. One moment I think he’s one of the more interesting, creative GMs out there, the next I feel like he’s channeling Steve Phillips."

Two from FJM: Woody Paige, and HatGuy. These need no further introduction.

The Indians extended "Senor Slo-Mo". I agree with this, I really like the $5MM 2010 club option.

Villanova is overrated. Agreed.

This Week's Links (12/31-1/4)

Hall of Fame edition, because there wasn't a whole lot else going on this week.

Looks like Gossage is in, while Blyleven, Rice, and Dawson all have a shot. Raines does not.

Dave Studeman's imaginary ballot.

OMDQ's imaginary ballot.

Heyman's ballot really was bad.

Jay Jaffe on this year's SP candidates (subscription only).

Posnanski on Morris, and the Pozcars results.

More on the Blyleven-Morris "comparison".

This Week's Links (10/29-11/2)

Rush the Court breaks down the first Coaches Poll of the season.

Because this post clearly got overlooked: OMDQ's interview with Erin Andrews.

Gammons on A-Rod's timing: "Dustin Pedroia and Jon Lester are doing something Alex has never done- playing in a World Series game." Ouch.

At least the Japan Series had its share of drama.

"HatGuy": "Fact is, the Yankees are in far greater need of a Scott Brosius, a Bernie Williams, a Paul O’Neill than an uninspired (and uninspiring) A-Rod."

A more reasonable take on A-Guez.

BP released the results of the Internet Baseball awards; same results as the voting here, except for NL RoY.

This Week's Links (9/24-9/28)

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll on the left about the new URL. If you haven't voted, please do- if I'm gonna drop $8.95 on a new address, I want to make the right choice (VegasWatch.com is taken, unfotunately).

Nate Silver threw up a great Unfiltered post last night with the updated Secret Sauce standings.

Tangotiger released the preliminary results of the Fans Scouting Report survey- the comments are also very interesting.

In case you missed it, MGL, co-author of The Book, stopped by in the comments of Tuesday's "Evaluating April MLB Predictions" post. His analysis was very interesting. Between that, and the e-mail I got from Keith Law about the post, I think I'm going to do a follow up next week.

OMDQ gave Mike Winters "an unprecedented 9.2 rating" for his ejection of Milton Bradley, then reviewed Winters' previous ejections this year.

Your NL "Least Valuable Player" is...Barry Bonds??

I sent a YouTube link over to With Leather last weekend, and KD posted it- it has nothing to do with sports (it involves giraffes), but I highly recommend it.

If you have a blog, I suggest setting up an account with Yardbarker and doing ads through them- I've got both those and the Google ads up now, and that seems like the way to go.

In SI's latest player poll, the players voted that the most meaning full stat is...RBIs, of course.

Nate Silver has a (free) article on BP looking at the worst collapses in history. The odds of the Angels blowing it in '95 were 1 in 8,332; if the Mets miss the playoffs, it would be the second biggest collapse ever.

The last "Stop Michael Kay Thursday" of the season.

The Dugout's take on all the NL tie scenarios: "The Dolphins. We'll all just end up playing the Dolphins."

This Week's Links (9/10-9/14)

The best place to find analysis on the Oden situation? DraftKevinDurant, of course.

An interesting discussion about John Hollinger's PER ratings at Free Darko.

BP's Postseason Odds now include the 1-day and 7-day changes.

Check out this absurd picture from the now infamous Marlins-Nationals game (via Knuckle Curve).

Gilbert Arenas goes "on strike" against his wife, sleeps in the gym for a week.

An interesting study looking at which out is the toughest to get (via Neyer).

OMDQ interviews NESN reporter Tina Cervasio.

So the Rockies ended up losing last night, which was unfortunate. But VIP continues to be very kind, as they've actually changed Colorado's odds to 250:1 (WS) and 100:1 (NL).

Oh, and by the way, David Wright is still 3:1 to win the NL MVP at SB.