2011 Pre-Season Preview: NL East – Atlanta Braves
March 21, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment
Braves 3B Chipper Jones The Braves begin the new season without long-time manager, Bobby Cox, who stewarded the team to a succession of fourteen consecutive division titles (from 1991-2005, absent the strike-shortened 1994 season), five World Series appearances and a world championship in his 20+ years at the help. The 2011 season will usher in […]
The 2010 Pennant Winners (How They Came to Be)
October 26, 2010 by Daniel Hirsch · 1 Comment
Using Bill James’s Win Shares, I’ll take a look at how each World Series team was formed. The information can be found at my site The Baseball Gauge. This page compares all of the 2010 teams. The percentages refer to the team’s percentage of Win Shares that came from each category with their rank in […]
Touring The Bases With…Ken Henderson
July 15, 2010 by Graham Womack · 2 Comments
“The press started to build me up pretty heavily, and the thing that they used to write quite often was that I was the next Willie Mays, which I don’t think was the right thing to do. I don’t care if a player is black or white, it doesn’t make any difference, there was nobody […]
