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The Best Baseball Analysts in the Country

Baseball Analysts (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

The Baseball Analysts, which Bryan Smith and I co-founded in early 2005, is fast approaching its five-year anniversary. The new site was the result of a merger between Bryan's Wait 'Til Next Year and my Baseball Beat, whose origins go back to the spring of 2003. Over the ensuing years, Baseball Analysts has witnessed Bryan's departure in 2006, followed by the additions of Jeff Albert that fall; Patrick...

Hometown Report: Elk Grove's 1984 football team to hold reunion

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

Twenty-five years ago, a season started to turn when the coach started to leg out wind sprints. He did so with his team. In the mud. Steve DaPrato was the coach, who, after the gassers, could be found leaning against goal posts, eyes bulging, sucking air, wondering what sort of fool of a coach would endure such an exercise. If there was ever an improbable Sac-Joaquin Section championship football...

Andre's Biggest Games - 11 Games of 5 RBIs or More

Andre Dawson for the Hall of Fame (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

Hall of Fame players have big games; they can carry an offense and intimidate a pitching staff on any given day, which was often the case in Andre's career. He had 11 games during his career of at least 5 RBIs or more.* 1977, July 4th - vs. Chicago Cubs, Won 19-3 Game Stats: In 6 ABs - 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 3 Hits, and 2 Runs 1985, April 27th - vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Won 8-3 Game Stats: In 5 ABs - 1 HR,...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

obfuscate \OB-fuh-skayt\, transitive verb: To darken or render indistinct or dim. To make obscure or difficult to understand or make sense of. To confuse or bewilder. Obfuscate comes from Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, "to darken," from Latin ob- + fuscare, "to darken," from fuscus, "dark." The noun form is obfuscation. expiration chug when someone...

Marlins' Chris Coghlan named 2009 National League Rookie of the Year; Phillies' Happ finishes second

The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

More photos » by David Zalubowski - AP 2009 National League Rookie of the Year Chris Coghlan. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Browse more photos » Chris Coghlan of the Florida Marlins was named the 2009 National League Rookie of the Year today, narrowly edging out Phillies' LHP J.A. Happ for the award. Coghlan received 105 total points and 17 first place votes, versus 94 and 10 for Happ. Coghlan...

Gold Gloves Awarded

The Political Game (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

The Rawlings Gold Glove awards have been handed out and break down as follows (parentheses note the number of awards won by each player): National League: P: Adam Wainwright, St. Louis Cardinals (1st) C: Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals (2 nd ) 1B: Adrian Gonzalez, San Diego Padres (2 nd ) 2B: Orlando Hudson, Los Angeles Dodgers (4 th ) 3B: Ryan Zimmerman, Washington Nationals (1st) SS: Jimmy Rollins,...

SB Nation Baseball Awards (MVP Edition)

FishStripes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

And the final SB Nation baseball awards was released, this one being the NL MVP. Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pts 1 Albert Pujols St. Louis Cardinals 31 - - - - - - - - - 434 2 Hanley Ramirez Florida Marlins - 6 8 11 2 1 2 - - - 220 3 Chase Utley Philadelphia Phillies - 7 11 2 3 1 - 1 - 1 192 4 Prince Fielder Milwaukee Brewers - 5 4 4 7 7 1 - - - 186 5 Troy Tulowitzki Colorado...

2009 SB Nation Baseball Awards: Most Valuable Player

Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

(Note: the following preamble is 99% unchanged from the previously announced awards, so feel free to skip it if you've already read it.) One of the nice things about having a whole network of baseball sites is that occasionally we get to pretend we're real writers and collaborate on projects with one another. Now that the baseball season is over, and before everyone's focus turns to the free agent...

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SBN Postseason Baseball Awards -- National League Most Valuable Player, and... The Good Phight Blogger Ballots Revealed!

The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Tom Gannam - AP Shocking, but Albert Pujols might win the National League MVP award this year! (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) Browse more photos » And the SBN bloggers roll out the last set of postseason awards... last but not least, National League Most Valuable Player. The not-shocking results (and the ballots of jonk and me on all awards) after the jump And the only even mild...

SBN Awards: NL MVP (hint, it starts with a P)

The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

by Matt Rourke - AP Is this Pujols? No. Is it an incredible dick-ish picture of Jayson Werth that I've been waiting ages to have a legitimate use for? Yes. View full size photo » Unanimity for presidents has been reserved solely for Washington. For Albert Pujols in 2009, all the denizens of SBN nation who cast a ballot lauded him with the honor being the unanimous NL MVP. Can anyone even make...

2009 SBNation Awards: MVP

Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Nam Y Huh - AP Mike Fontenot after a forceout of Albert Pujols in April at Wrigley Field. Browse more photos » No surprises here, at least not for me. I expected Albert Pujols to be the unanimous MVP among SBN voters, and he was. The AL winner is the guy I would have chosen; you may be a bit surprised at the second-place finisher. Points for MVP are awarded as follows:...

SBN Awards: NL MVP

Talking Chop (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Every year the bloggers and members of the SBN baseball blog community get together and do our own BWAA-style voting for all of the major awards. No Braves finished very high in the voting. Surprisingly, Javier Vazquez was the Braves player who ranked the highest. Of course, Pujols won unanimously, as he should have, but it was a real scrum for second place votes. Here is the voting breakdown: Rk Player...

SB Nation N.L. MVP: Albert Pujols

Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Tom Gannam - AP St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols connects for a two-run home run in the in the third inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a game on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in St. Louis.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam) Browse more photos » No surprise there. Here are the full results (again, after the jump, because the charts don't fit): Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th...

NL Gold Gloves Awards, Yay

Babes Love Baseball (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Ryan Zimmerman earned his first career Gold Glove on Wednesday, succeeding a buddy from his youth, New York Mets' third baseman David Wright . Back when Zimmerman was a shortstop in high school, the two were teammates on a youth team. Zim led all big league third basemen with 325 assists, becoming just the second Washington player to win the award, joining catcher Earl Battey of the Senators, who...

SB Nation NL MVP Award

True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

by Mark J. Terrill - AP "So Joe, you aren't really going to walk me every time a runner is in scoring position, right? Right?" View full size photo » Albert Pujols unanimously won the 2009 SB Nation National League MVP award, easily defeating Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins. Dodgers who received votes were Matt Kemp (11th), Andre Ethier (15th) and Juan Pierre (24th). Here are the results:...