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Hermida musings and minor league miscellanea
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Latest sign that things are slowly changing on Federal Street: when the Red Sox traded for Jeremy Hermida yesterday and only gave up two minor league arms, I didn't go apopletic about the Pirates not being involved. Hermida seems like an intriguing buy-low candidate, but if he...
Some day
3 days ago by
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And so, the 2009 season wraps up with the Yankees winning the World Series. The team with the biggest payroll, the brightest stars, and the prettiest girlfriends win again. I see people on my Facebook from Western Pennsylvania that I'm fairly certain have never even been to New...
More on Akinori Iwamura
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The more I think (and read) about this trade, the more I like it for a few reasons. The first reason should be obvious; Iwamura makes the Pirates better at a position of need without giving much up. He's not blocking anyone from playing in the immediate future, so why is becoming...
More on Akinori Iwamura
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The more I think (and read) about this trade, the more I like it for a few reasons. The first reason should be obvious; Iwamura makes the Pirates better at a position of need without giving much up. He's not blocking anyone from playing in the immediate future, so why is becoming...
Akinori Iwamura is coming to the Pirates
4 days ago by
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Developing. No word on who's going to Tampa. More later.
UPDATE: The Post-Gazette reports that it's Jesse Chavez for Iwamura and an unknown player. (Update to the update: no other player)
Analysis Update: I have mixed feelings about this trade. I did mention Iwamura as a player...
WHYGAVS Top Hitting Prospects, November 2009
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After talking about it a whole lot, I've finally got the first part of my prospect rankings together. I've created a page for each player with a small writeup giving my impression of the player, plus links to key pages; their stats at Baseball-Reference, Wilbur Miller's...
WHYGAVS Top Hitting Prospects, November 2009
4 days ago by
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After talking about it a whole lot, I've finally got the first part of my prospect rankings together. I've created a page for each player with a small writeup giving my impression of the player, plus links to key pages; their stats at Baseball-Reference, Wilbur Miller's...
Where have you gone, Carlos Garcia?
5 days ago by
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This is slightly old news (last Friday), but all of the blogging I did over the weekend consisted of FanHouse chats and prospect writing (it's taking longer than I wanted, but they should be done soon). I still want to at least mention that the Pirates have hired ex-Pirate Carlos...
Where have you gone, Carlos Garcia?
5 days ago by
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This is slightly old news (last Friday), but all of the blogging I did over the weekend consisted of FanHouse chats and prospect writing (it's taking longer than I wanted, but they should be done soon). I still want to at least mention that the Pirates have hired ex-Pirate Carlos...
Friday links
8 days ago by
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Pirates claim Justin Thomas off of waivers. Here are his minor league stats. Six walks per nine innings! That'll be exciting.
A little more on the Class-A affiliate swap from the PG. The official annoucnement is expected on November 11th, and as we suspected the move is being made...
Top 5: Pirates' World Series
9 days ago by
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If there's one category in Pirate history that's made for a Top 5 list, it's a list of the five World Series won by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The franchise has won five Series with five very different teams across a 70 year swath of time. The only problem? Each of the Series...
Housekeeping and such
10 days ago by
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I'm planning on doing a bit of an overhaul to WHYGAVS over the next few days/weekend. Unlike WHYGAVS Past, this does not mean that you'll wake up on Monday to a bright yellow background that will assault your eyes for four months. Instead, I'm planning on adding to the...
No more Hillcats
10 days ago by
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John Fay at the Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting today that the Pirates and Reds are switching high-A affiliates in 2010, with the Lynchburg Hillcats becoming part of the Reds' system and the Sarasota Reds moving to Bradenton and becoming part of the Pirates' system.
The new...
A World Series secret
11 days ago by
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While everyone outside of New York and Philadelphia is complaining about having to choose between the Yankees and Phillies to win a World Series is like choosing between breaking your big toe with a sleghammer or having it chopped off by a bandsaw, I have a small confession to make...
A request
11 days ago by
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I was just sent an e-mail by my dad requesting that I create a glossary of terms, stats, etc. that I use regularly that people who aren't as fluid in that sort of thing can refer back to in posts where I go really heavy on the stats. This seems like a good idea and so I'll...
Bill James 2010 Projections and the Pirates
12 days ago by
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The nice people at ACTA Sports have agreed to send me the projections section from the Bill James 2010 handbook and asked me to whatever I please about it. In return, they send me a free copy of the final book. I am mentioning this because the FTC has made it clear that if I don'...
The man, the myth, the Legend
12 days ago by
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I'm working on a longer post for tonight, but I can't finish it until I get home (I don't actually tote all of my off-season baseball tomes around with me to lab, believe it or not), so until then please tide yourself over with this post I wrote about Garrett Jones for Walkoff Walk.
BBA: NL MVP Ballot
13 days ago by
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This ballot is for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, a group of baseball bloggers (duh) who are pooling votes together to give out our own post-season award.
10. Javier Vazquez- Second among NL pitchers in WAR and a full half-win better than third place Danny Haren. His team didn...
Ross Ohlendorf is an intern for the Department of Agriculture
15 days ago by
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Fall and winter baseball update
15 days ago by
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Time to catch up with the various Pirates still playing baseball across the Western Hemisphere.
In the Arizona Fall League, Jose Tabata is killing the ball, hitting .333/.429/.542 with a double and two triples in six games. Brian Friday and Chase D'Arnaud are hitting terribly,...
Rounding up Pirate news
16 days ago by
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I had to give lab meeting this week, which is why posting has been a bit light the last few days. The Pirates have managed to do a few small, newsworthy things this week, though, so let's briefly run them down.
Denny Bautista, Chris Bootcheck, and Craig Hansen are off the 40-man...
A simple umpiring solution
17 days ago by
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There's no denying that the umpiring has been bad this postseason. The "human element" defense of bad calls is complete BS; men that aren't playing be able to affect the outcome of a baseball game by being bad at their jobs. Something needs to be done. But what?
A...
The continuing story of Ross Ohlendorf's PitchFX
18 days ago by
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Before we get started on the hard numbers and little graphs, I think a good place to start is with this comment by Hamburger on the last post about Ohlendorf:
Hamburger said: I know it's not the most telling stat since it only factors in HR, BB, and K, but one thing that I find...
BBA: NL Cy Young Ballot
19 days ago by
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This ballot is for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, a group of baseball bloggers (duh) who are pooling votes together to give out our own post-season award.
I do have Pirates' coming later today or tonight, but for now I have to submit by BBA ballot for Cy Young Award and this...
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