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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
February 20, 2011
Jess Coleman |
How Pitchers Can Prevent Injuries Every year, over 25% of the money spent on Major League Baseball pitchers is spent on pitchers on the disabled list. |
Sports Central
August 23, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Why the Nationals Should Pitch Strasburg The team should take the gamble on Strasburg and pitch him for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs. |
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? |
Reason
December 2003
Matt Welch |
Balls The joy of watching ideas win -- a review of Michael Lewis's Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
Sports Central
August 23, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Stay the Course With the Strasburg Plan Michael Collins suggests the pending Strasburg Shutdown is really a well-constructed smokescreen the aim of which is to lull the competition asleep and then, bing! wheel out Strasburg once the postseason, into which the Washington Nationals seem to have a locked-down berth, practically, opens. |
Sports Central
July 6, 2004
William Geoghegan |
Closing Time They are charged with a simple task -- get three outs in the ninth inning. They are the closers, and they get a heck of a lot of attention. |
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 Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Tom Verducci |
A step backward Year-After Effect could strike many pitchers in '02... |
Sports Illustrated
October 17, 2001
Tom Verducci |
The sounds of October A's learn the hard way about importance of fundamentals... |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Rotation proclamation This MLB postseason proves that depth is vital to a winning staff |
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. |
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
September 1, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
August 15, 2002 |
Prior commitment Cubs vow not to overwork their phenom pitcher |
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
April 22, 2004
Mike Round |
Billy Beane: Messiah or Phony? Billy Beane had taken over a team in disarray, with only slightly more fans than the Expos, and transformed them into a perennial contender in the tough AL West. |
Sports Central
September 1, 2010
Jess Coleman |
Stephen Strasburg's Injury Was Inevitable The Nationals prolonged this anti-medical pitching mentality, and failed to end it. And now they are paying for it. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2005
William Geoghegan |
A's Aren't Pretty, But They're Good This year's Oakland A's are defined by their white shows: ugly, plain, but good quality. |
Sports Illustrated
October 18, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Short rest for pitchers play a role in playoffs... |
Sports Central
July 28, 2006
Mike Round |
Time For Billy Beane to Move On As a baseball analyst, Joe Morgan stinks. |
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
July 10, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The Milwaukee Embarrassment Baseball got the All-Star fiasco it's been asking for |
Sports Illustrated
April 3, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Give Pedro some time The best young pitcher I ever saw was Dwight Gooden. But as he grew heavier and stronger after rehabbing his shoulder, he lost some of that natural looseness in his arm and consequently lost some of the late life off his fastball. Is that happening to Pedro now that he's gained 15 pounds? |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2011
David Gardner |
Moneyballing the Financial World Part of what makes baseball so interesting and compelling to lovers of numbers is that it is scored. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central
December 20, 2004
Dave Golokhov |
Funny-Moneyball Oakland Athletics management has, once again, shipped off two of their prime possessions for aspirations down the road. Well, that is the Moneyball approach, isn't it? Buy low, sell high? But when does tomorrow become today? |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Truth Be Told Beware conventional wisdom. Here are 10 myths of these October playoffs, and our expert is happy to dispel them |
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 12, 2000
Gary Kaufman |
The really big show Cue the sappy French horn music, they're introducing All-Stars. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 27, 2003 |
Baseball by the Numbers Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, tells the fascinating story of how Billy Beane has come tantalizingly close, as a general manager, to turning the Oakland Athletics -- one of the poorest teams in baseball -- into an Ugly Duckling success and a perennial contender. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Re-Draft, Playball in Five Years (Pt. 4) This "Universe Draft" is about trying to find those guys who will be one of those elite 10-to-15 players in the 2010s and beyond. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2004
Tom Gardner |
Moneyball's Undervalued Players An interview with Michael Lewis, author of "Moneyball," a book that looks into the roaring success of the Oakland A's baseball team and how it applies to general value stock investing. |
Wired
June 2004
Tom McNichol |
The Ultimate Pitching Machine Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers. Batter up! |
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
October 17, 2006
Bob Ekstrom |
A's Far A's They Go Who thought the Oakland Athletics would still be playing baseball through the second week of October? The first week maybe, but not the second. |
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
August 2, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Re-Draft, Playball in Five Years (Pt. 2) The Universe Draft is a list of the top 30 young players currently at the big league level. Here is a discussion of picks six to ten. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Nathan Parmelee |
On Pitchers and Investing Similarities abound between investing in baseball players and investing in companies. |
Sports Central
June 28, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
Will the Nats Spoil Stephen Strasburg? Are the Washington Nationals going to ruin the prodigy before his time? |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Four-warning Go on short rest or take a gamble, that is the question for managers in Baseball's playoffs. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
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
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 Illustrated
November 6, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Sports Illustrated
June 1, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Jonesin' for some run support Padres right-hander suffering from lack of offensive help... |
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 |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seventh Heaven Can a pair of aces keep the Yankees from another title? |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Even when closer Matt Mantei was out, Arizona was relieved by its bullpen |
