Facts, figures and other tidbits from the twelfth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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I never expected I would feel bad for Willie Randolph. How the Mets could screw up a slam dunk of a firing the way they did by canning a manager who just won his third of four games after flying coast-to-coast the day after meeting with the GM and asking to be fired IF he was going to be before making the trip is amazing, indeed. In honor of Willie Randolph’s 3:14am EDT firing on Tuesday is the All-“They Deserved Better” Team:

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the eleventh week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Last Saturday on Seamheads, the “No World Series” Theme Team was revealed. This week, a new theme team is revealed — the 2008 MLB Draft All-Relative Team.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the tenth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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In Florida tonight, Ken Griffey Jr. continues to chase 600 home runs.  Barring a disaster, Griffey will join the elite 600-HR club soon.  As Junior Griffey’s career crawls to a close, Griffey is running out of time to remove himself from his place in history as the greatest outfielder – possibly the greatest player – to never play in the World Series. 

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the ninth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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On Sunday, former Phillies catcher Mike Lieberthal will spend one more day as a Philadelphia Phillie then retire.  After spending 13 of his 14 seasons in Philadelphia and starting more games at catcher than any other Phillie (1,139), the Phillies plan to sign him to a ceremonial one-day contract, have him throw out the first ball and officially retire from baseball.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the eighth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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If you are a fan of baseball history then you never hear too many tales of baseball’s past. Last Saturday, the Connie Mack Chapter of SABR met for their annual regional meeting at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia and delivered exactly that.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the seventh week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Last week, Padres’ Greg Maddux registered his 350^th win.  There’s a good chance we won’t see that again in our lifetime.  While I still hold to my earlier posts that 300-game winners are not dead yet, there is serious cause for concern with the disappearance of consistent, high quality starting pitching.

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On the heels of a night where he went 2-for-4 maybe there’s hope that Phillies slugger Ryan Howard is finally snapping out of his ’08 slump. Then again, he did add to his strikeout total twice to boost it to a major league-high 56 times.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the sixth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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“The Code” in baseball is an interesting but seldom discussed aspect of the game. Just this past week, both Richie Sexson and Joba Chamberlain have caused ripples in the game because of it.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the fifth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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In our first history lesson, we learned that the Tigers were not dead. Now, in a look back at standings of the past, a number of conclusions can be drawn based on what we’ve seen so far in the ’08 season.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the fourth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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With the opportunity to become an everyday player in 2008, Houston’s Michael Bourn may also have an opportunity to become the first player in 20 years to steal 80 bases and join a club that has only added 18 members since 1916.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the third week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Maybe the Phillies’ fans owe Ed Wade an apology.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the second week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Robert Bofors’ study of caught stealing estimates during the Deadball era proves to be illuminating. 

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“The sky is falling.” – Chicken Little

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the first week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Nothing is more painful to a baseball franchise or a fan to experience the promise of an exciting first season and then watch that player fade into baseball mediocrity. Some call it the sophomore jinx. Here are three more of those stories of unfulfilled promises:

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Some say rules are made to be broken. Others say rules are rules. Most say two wrongs don’t make a right. In Bowa’s case, he thinks the rules don’t apply… but do many wrongs make a right?

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Every season, teams in the majors lace their home schedules with various promotions and giveaways to bring fans out to the ballpark. The most popular giveaway these days is the bobblehead.

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Nothing is more painful to a baseball franchise or a fan to experience the promise of an exciting first season and then watch that player fade into baseball mediocrity. Some call it the sophomore jinx. Here are three of those stories of unfulfilled promises:

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It’s easy to mark down steroids as one of the dark eras of the National Pastime without paying attention to what this scandal did for the game and why steroids were actually good for the game of baseball.

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Part two takes a more speculative look at the future of the 300-game winner in the Majors.

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