A Tour Around SB Nation
by James Kannengieser on Jul 6, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
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PrintSB Nation boasts some of the best baseball blogs around. Each team has one, and there are blogs devoted to sabermetrics, minor leagues, fantasy baseball, scouting, and transaction rumors. Since it's a slow day in Mets-land, here's a quick look at recent posts from around SB Nation that ended up on the Applesauce cutting room floor:
NL East
- Braves - Talking Chop: Javier Vazquez and Jair Jurrjens were good enough to make the All-Star Team, but their chances were unfairly hurt by their poor W-L records.
- Marlins - FishStripes: The title says it all - "Will Luis Ayala Solve The Bullpen Problems? (hint: um, no)"
- Nationals - Federal Baseball: FB interviewed first time All-Star Ryan Zimmerman.
- Phillies - The Good Phight: USA Today Baseball Weekly profiled TGP for its "Bloggin' Baseball" feature. It's on newstands through tomorrow.
NL Central
- Astros - Crawfish Boxes: Vote for your favorite Astros uniform in history.
- Brewers - Brew Crew Ball: Brewers pictures of the week.
- Cardinals - Viva El Birdos: What's going on with Ryan Ludwick?
- Cubs - Bleed Cubbie Blue: This FanPost has 58 recs. See if it reminds you of someone else.
- Pirates - Bucs Dugout: Garrett Jones, who homered off Pedro Feliciano last week, is not as good as it seems.
- Reds - Red Reporter: A recent game recap, noteworthy for the Dusty Baker photo caption.
NL West
- Diamondbacks - AZ Snakepit: Mark Reynolds, Justin Upton and Dan Haren are projected to finish the season with some awesome numbers.
- Dodgers - True Blue LA: Manny Ramirez = Ricky Vaughn.
- Giants - McCovey Chronicles: MC is justifiably obsessed with Pablo Sandoval.
- Padres - Gaslamp Ball: With the trade of Scott Hairston to the A's, the Padres have officially given up on the season. I liked this from the post: "I understand the Padres have absolutely no chance of doing anything this year, hell everybody knows that except Heath Bell."
- Rockies - Purple Row: An incomplete list of Rockies entrance music. We should compile this for the Mets.
AL East
- Blue Jays - Bluebird Banter: Handicapping the AL Rookie of the Year race.
- Orioles - Camden Chat: Nothing worse than when the Red Sox, and their fans, come to town.
- Rays - DraysBay: The worst at-bat of the season, courtesy of Dioner Navarro.
- Red Sox - Over The Monster: This FanPost was rec'd a bunch of times, but I don't really understand it.
- Yankees - Pinstripe Alley: The Francisco Cervelli Facts, similar to the Lastings Milledge, Cole Hamels, and Matt Wieters Facts.
AL Central
- Indians - Let's Go Tribe!: Link is to the front page - LGT has changed its tagline to "CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" in honor of Shin-Soo Choo.
- Royals - Royals Review: Analysis of every team's actual record and expected record using WAR.
- Tigers - Bless You Boys: Magglio Ordonez is having a rough go at it this season. Could he be the next Sheffield?
- Twins - Twinkie Town: Who should play 2nd base for the Twins?
- White Sox - South Side Sox: The White Sox were quiet on international signing day and that's a good thing.
AL West
- Angels - Halos Heaven: The daily "A Day At The Park" comic celebrates being in 1st place on the 4th of July.
- Athletics - Athletics Nation: A look back at the World Series Champion 1989 A's, featuring a collection of newspaper clippings from that year.
- Mariners - Lookout Landing: We aren't the only ones annoyed by our team's manager.
- Rangers - Lone Star Ball: Rob Neyer, R.J. Anderson, and Rangers writer Evan Grant gave their two cents this week on Kevin Millwood, with Grant's opinion dissenting. LSB recaps it here - interesting stuff if you're in a meta mood.
General
- Sabermetrics - Beyond The Boxscore: Comparing the UZR's for the 2008 NL playoff teams.
- Minor Leagues - Minor League Ball: John Sickels profiles Brian Bannister in his ongoing "Prospect Retro" series.
- Fantasy Baseball - Fake Teams: Should the D-Backs trade Dan Haren? Yes, they should - to the Mets for Daniel Murphy, straight-up.
- Scouting - Driveline Mechanics: The Vernon Wells contract was never a good idea for the Blue Jays.
- Transaction Rumors - MLB Daily Dish: It doesn't seem like Derek Jeter is very open to playing any position except shortstop.
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Didn’t that poll say that Mets fans were the most hated fans in Baltimore? Oh, right. I forgot. That poll has hacked by a Philthy fan.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
great paperman reference
man that guy had a sweet post.
Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.
for the boston link
you have to read the attached link to it at the top of the page before you read the post. the post that you linked is mocking a post made by another boston fan.
"The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed."
-Casey Stengel
by He'sGotPotential on Jul 6, 2009 5:25 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah I saw that
but even so, it’s not like Jason Bay is a slam-dunk All Star. His defense is poor, and even if you only look at his offense guys like Johnny Damon, Carl Crawford and Torii Hunter are better this season. I give him credit for hitting well outside of Fenway though.
by James Kannengieser on Jul 6, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't vote for him.
And FanGraphs would support the argument that he doesn’t deserve it this year.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
Fake Teams has a post recently...
About a potential swap for Matt Holliday. They have been right a few times on their sources about Hinske to Yankees and Dukes to Pitt.
Phillies masacre-ing the Reds 16-1 in the 4th inning
Things are looking worse for the Mets by the minute
Last but not least, MLB Daily Dish
Matt Buggenhagen channels his namesake from a popular blog about the Mets.
That dude just don't like me
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
The site just seems so out place.
You got driveline mechanics and beyond the boxscore that provide insight into baseball through stats, and the he starts talking about the importance of leadership, heart, grission (well, he doesn’t actually use grission) etc, in a winning ball club.
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
It does seem kinda stupid
Most team specific sites already pick up trade rumors, and I would bet people like to discuss them on there own site more than with a bunch of random fans.
Derosa.
Buggenhagen
Definitely played against that guy in h.s. baseball. I think we faced off once, in a “battle of the last names.” Pretty sure I got shelled.
by James Kannengieser on Jul 7, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions
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