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Why a Pitcher Should Never Win the MVP Pitchers are incredibly valuable to baseball teams. The question as to whether they are the most valuable in their leagues will continue to be debated.   |
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April 16, 2014
Brad Oremland |
Sports Are Bad For Us About two weeks into the new baseball season, the Milwaukee Brewers are hot, but the early theme is probably injuries, particularly those that require Tommy John surgery. |
Wired
June 2004
Tom McNichol |
The Ultimate Pitching Machine Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers. Batter up! |
Salon.com
April 25, 2001
Allen Barra |
The golden age of pitching is now When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? |
Sports Central
July 16, 2013
Brad Oremland |
A Moneyball Primer For David Wells The unfortunate downside is that when people try to explain why they don't like sabermetrics, they usually don't know what they're talking about. |
Sports Central
June 23, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
Sports Central
July 4, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
How to Improve the MLB All-Star Game MLB's All-Star Game should be saved and improved. |
Sports Central
September 26, 2010
Jess Coleman |
Sabathia Does Not Deserve Cy Young The 2010 Cy Young conversation had been a fascinating debate. It had raised questions about how to determine if a pitcher is successful, and the value of certain statistics. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Five Aces, Five Falls, One Coach Who Learned the Hard Way The Washington Nationals say Stephen Strasburg won't be limited in his 2012 starts, but will be limited in his total innings' workload this season. |
Sports Central
April 26, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Catching On Who are the two major league pitchers with 3 wins, and an ERA and WHIP each below 1.00? |
Sports Central
October 3, 2010
Jess Coleman |
Yankees Should Avoid Burnett in Postseason A.J. Burnett has been everything the Yankees feared this season. Money and a desire to keep him happy are not enough to allow this pitcher to sink the Yankees in the playoffs. |
Sports Central
April 18, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Pitching-Heavy Marlins Still Not Winning The Marlins record should be better considering the great statistics or their pitchers. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Illustrated
April 23, 2002
Jeff Pearlman |
Pitching In A surprisingly sharp rotation has meant everything to the otherwise ragged Mets... |
Sports Illustrated
May 14, 2002
Josh Elliott |
Into Thin Air Mike Hampton has struggled with his control and lost his confidence in Colorado... |
Sports Central
July 22, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Erik Bedard, Knowing His Limits Erik Bedard just might be a pitcher who's smart enough and experienced enough to know his limits, even if he did learn them by attrition. It doesn't -- shouldn't -- make him seem any less a competitor. |
Sports Central
August 7, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Save Us From the Save Who decided that a three-run lead was the point where you need a closer? And why? |
Sports Central
October 9, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Previewing the Mets/Dodgers NLDS When the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, face off in the division series of the baseball playoffs beginning Friday, fans could be in store for the best pitching performances seen anywhere in the postseason. |
Sports Central
January 24, 2007
Mike Round |
MLB Pitchers Exploit Tight Market A look at the value of MLB pitchers. |
Sports Central
April 1, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Santana, Down for the Count, Maybe Career We love to watch men with the mindsets of bulldogs on the field or on the mound. We don't always stop to think that the very thing we admire about them could be the very thing that finishes them before their time. |
Salon.com
July 10, 2002
Keith Olbermann |
Baseball ruins everything it touches Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome. |
Sports Illustrated
April 20, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Sports Central
May 22, 2006
Matt Thomas |
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? If pro baseball players are going to constantly remind us that "being a player is a job," then they should be held to as high a standard as you or I. |
Sports Central
September 5, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees' Failures Not News You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see what may be coming. But whatever the outcome this season, the team's 2004 legacy will be mostly about its failed management and ownership, not its players. |
AskMen.com
June 10, 2015
Christopher Hunt |
Matt Harvey Interview The New York Mets All-Star pitcher, by many accounts, is the biggest sports star in Big Apple. But he can just as easily be passed in the street, mistaken for any suburbanite in a t-shirt and jeans. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Salon.com
July 11, 2002 |
Enough about All-Star interruptus! ...I'm afraid that all this hot air over the ending of a game that nobody cared about the ending of in the first place is going to cause baseball to overreact and ruin what remains... |
Sports Central
March 14, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Frank Jobe, RIP: Elbow and Shoulder Above the Rest Tommy John probably should be in the Hall of Fame -- as much in the pioneer category as any other. And so should the physician who developed and performed that surgery named for him. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Illustrated
August 15, 2002 |
Prior commitment Cubs vow not to overwork their phenom pitcher |
Sports Central
December 12, 2006
Bob Ekstrom |
Learnin' Japanese A look at yakyu -- Japanese baseball -- at its peak. |
Sports Central
April 26, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Sabermetricians: Help! Baseball, over the last 10 or 20 years, has seen a revolution of advanced statistics. |
AskMen.com
January 21, 2004
Steve Seepersaud |
The 11 Highest Paid Athletes The top 11 athletes that delivered a low return on investment. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Nathan Parmelee |
On Pitchers and Investing Similarities abound between investing in baseball players and investing in companies. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Invest Like Baseball's Best What can the best major-league managers teach savvy investors? 1. Think long-term... 2. Don't ignore dividends... 3. Know when to let go... |
Sports Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Tom Verducci |
A step backward Year-After Effect could strike many pitchers in '02... |
Sports Illustrated
July 9, 2003
Albert Chen |
Quality Start Rookie Brandon Webb has lifted the Diamondbacks into contention. |
Sports Central
April 23, 2013
Brad Oremland |
Warren Spahn's Prime Joe Posnanski wrote in a post about the greatest pitchers of all time that "Warren Spahn sustained a long career, but did not have the dominant peak." That characterization surprised me. |
Sports Illustrated
November 19, 2001
Jon Wertheim |
An easy offseason Baseball pitching vs. tennis serving, continued... |
Sports Illustrated
August 6, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The rich get richer The emergence of young hurlers fortifies Atlanta's rotation. |
Sports Illustrated
April 9, 2003
Albert Chen |
Rust-Free How much more can the Mets expect from 40-year-old David Cone? |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Roger Lowenstein |
Book Review: Bullpen Diaries by Charley Rosen Understanding the booming, illogical relief pitcher economy through an appraisal of Mariano Rivera |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Gary Kaufman |
Hall of Fame hurlers After Clemens and Maddux, which active pitchers are on their way to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central
July 3, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
The Bright, Elusive Butterflies of Cy They don't just speak of R.A. Dickey as the likely or most obvious candidate to start this year's All-Star Game; they're talking about his possibilities for bagging the Cy Young Award. |
Sports Illustrated
May 24, 2000
Tom Verducci |
The trouble with starting young The next Golden Age of young starting pitching was on display at the 1997 All-Star game.... |
Salon.com
September 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Curt Schilling needs the ball The five-man rotation steals starts from aces and gives them to lesser arms. When will a manager have the guts to ditch it? |
Sports Illustrated
October 18, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Short rest for pitchers play a role in playoffs... |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Mark Hyman |
"Tommy John" Comes To High School Because of a rash of elbow injuries among high school baseball players, the once-experimental procedure called "Tommy John" elbow surgery is being sought out by anxious parents. |
Sports Central
August 8, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Easy as 1, 2, 3 There may be a number of teams who run the gamut for a playoff birth, but pitching wins in the playoffs, and no starting pitching staff is as ominous as the Astros trio. Second in line would be the dominant duo from St. Louis. |
