Maize n Brew's Markus takes an in-depth look at the Michigan Football Quarterback competition, Coach Rod Smith, all the stats and numbers behind Smith's protegees, and offers some thoughts on the coming season.
Red Reporter takes a look at Cincinnati Reds outfielder Chris Dickerson and profiles how he has managed to be successful in the majors this season.
Mystery WAR Graph III: Two Contemporary Sluggers. Click here for the answer and discussion. Hint: Cookie Monster versus Fat Elvis
Mystery WAR Graphs returns with a graph comparing the top seasons of two of the more devastating offensive producers of recent times. How do they stack up, and how are they? Are they Hall-worthy?
Today's Mystery WAR (Wins Above Replcaement) compares to careers of two outfielders who are currently two of the bigger names in baseball circles.
From the WAR Database. Wright really has a chance to establish himself as the best of the bunch this year.
In light of John Henry's recent statements, here's a graph I did about how often the Red Sox have publicly and nobly stood up for their small-market brethren. I can't see any reason to doubt their altruism, do you? (Click here for a larger version.)
Drawing on the idea that spawned by long, incomprehensible, and thus not-as-funny-and-illuminating as I'd hoped Gold Glove DH Award, here is a graphical representation of Adam Dunn's Positional Adjustment + Defense (bUZR/150) in left field over the years. I figured I owed it to him given that due to the way FanGraphs does its leader/trailerboards, he probably got jobbed out of a Gold Glove from me this season. Don't worry Adam, you're still in the NL, and you have a similar level of excellence at 1B, so there's always next year... For a larger version, click here.
Over at Royals Review, we were trying to list some of reasons to like some of the "New Guys" about whom some of us have... doubts. Anyway, I had heard that Mike Jacobs was a nice guy, but then someone asked me to quantify it. Well, Will Carroll swore me to secrecy on the super-duper awesome "niceness" metric that the Marlins front office let him in on, but I did manage to graph it in relation to his other skills, as pictured above. Click here for a larger version.
