Oliver Perez and GM Kevin Towers are at odds over whether Perez should pitch in Mexico this winter. Perez isn’t a very big guy who has thrown a lot of pitches this year. I can certainly understand his wanting to be loyal to his home town, but as Towers says, Perez has to think about [...]
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Baseball, Beer, and Geekage
Listening to a cool collection of Japanese Koto music. The melodies are ethereal and soothing. A good antidote to stress. Baseball Here’s a troubling split in an admittedly small sample. Jake Peavy vs RHB: .213/.243/.284; vs LHB: .318/.393/.551. FWIW, Peavy had no trouble with lefties in the minors. They hit .239/.312/.310 against him at Mobile [...]
A Year Later
A year later it still doesn’t seem real. But we all saw it happen. We all know it happened. I work on the 20th floor of a building that overlooks the airport in one of the more prominent military towns in the country. The flags on the rooftops of surrounding buildings are all at half-mast. [...]
Rocco Baldelli and the Rally Monkey
After dropping the first two games at San Bernardino, the Storm have won the next two at home, forcing a game five back on the road. Right-hander Mike Bumstead goes against lefty Glenn Bott at 7:05 tonight. In a minor upset, Baseball America has named Rocco Baldelli 2002 Minor League Player of the Year. Personally [...]
Burroughs Starts at Second Base
First off, thanks to one of my regular readers for setting me straight on the Cal League playoffs. Seems I got a little too excited at the 12-game winning streak and skipped a round of playoffs. At any rate, the Storm now play a best-of-five series against San Bernardino. Meantime, Modesto plays a similar series [...]
Tejada, Burroughs, and Storm Winning Streak
So does Miguel Tejada lose some of his MVP support after dropping that feed from Mark Ellis last night? Yes, I’m being facetious. Sort of. The point is that a couple of game-winning hits late in the season shouldn’t have been enough alone to push him into MVP contention. Don’t get me wrong, Tejada is [...]
Bullet Points
Hey, I’m back. Hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend. My brother-in-law came to town, which meant lots of Playstation 2 games (Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance this time around; highly addictive) and Asian buffet. If you can deal with Anne Murray singing about Jesus (she does some secular tunes, too; you haven’t really [...]
Greene, Peavy, and Baseball-Reference Sponsorships
Things Not Baseball Thanks to some "interesting" driving decisions on the part of yours truly, we missed Pat and Oscar’s in Mission Valley by several miles last night. Although at first glance this may appear to be a tragedy of epic proportions, the fact that we ended up at D.Z. Akin’s made it worth the [...]
Around the Organization
Here’s an interesting look back on history. In 1995, two catching prospects put up the following numbers: Age Lvl(Lg) BA OBP SLG Catcher A: 19 A(MdW) .321 .398 .564 Catcher B: 22 AA(Sou) .224 .340 .361 Both were switch-hitters. In his 1996 book, John Sickels assigned Catcher A a letter grade of A, Catcher B [...]
Potentially Promising Pitchers
I have a newfound respect for session musicians. Studio work is grueling. We spent about 18 hours this weekend laying down what will amount to roughly 20 minutes of music. And we haven’t even gotten to the mixing yet. But it was a blast, and we learned a lot. One of my regular readers mentioned [...]
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