December 1, 2008 – 5:14 am
In their relatively brief history, the San Diego Padres have had 16 players pitch in two games or fewer for them. It’s a fascinating list… if you find these sorts of lists fascinating:
Al McBean, 1969
Taken from the Pirates as the 50th player selected overall in the 1968 expansion draft, McBean started his only game in [...]
By Geoff Young
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Posted in History
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Also tagged brigham young university, dane iorg, dodger stadium, earl wilson, expansion draft, houston astros, kansas city royals, san diego padres, san francisco giants, st louis cardinals, tommy dean, wes parker, world series winners
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October 14, 2008 – 5:28 am
I’m trying out a tool that pulls links from my Delicious bookmarks and publishes them here on a semi-regular basis…
How much should Ben Sheets get? (Hardball Times). Victor Wang uses projected performance and risk analysis to predict that free-agent right-hander Ben Sheets will get $55-65 million for 4 or 5 years. The methodology seems reasonable, [...]
By Geoff Young
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Posted in Notes and Links
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Also tagged Baseball, ben sheets, bud black, corey-brock, hardball times, jim-lefebvre, logan-white, mitchel-litchman, padres, ted-simmons, tom krasovic, victor-wang
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Jon Weisman has been blogging about the Los Angeles Dodgers (team of my youth, but let’s just sweep that under the rug) since July 2002 at Dodger Thoughts. He also writes about baseball in general at SI.com and the entertainment industry at Variety. Jon and I recently chatted via the mystical magic of email about [...]
