I was fortunate enough to have some time off available to burn at work, and an offering of generosity to nudge me to get me on the road the first weekend of March. About two weeks ago, a work colleague I talk regularly with about all kinds of sports let me know she and...
Read more →After yesterday’s post, I had a little time today to follow through with an inquiry on Google about a Manager WAR statistic, and sure enough, several other baseball fans had the same question. It turns out one fan even suggested such a metric. Adam Darowski (adarowski), a current contributor to SBNation and sabermetrician, wrote...
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There was a brief kerfuffle in the Cubs media room last night before Chicago starter John Lackey stepped into- and earned- his 7th loss of the year in New York. Lackey, the crazy-eyed charger in Chicago’s stable of previously stalwart starters, is off this year, and in 13 starts, the elder pitcher is 4-7...
Read more →In 2016, the Chicago Cubs did the improbable, and the mostly unexpected, by winning the World Series. Okay- it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected in 2016, except to diehard Cubs fans. But it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected because of the people the owners and the team put in place during the prior handful...
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