Foul Territory Baseball
What About a One-Year Deal, Craig Kimbrel?
The word on the street is that Craig Kimbrel was still looking for a $100 million deal at the end of March. It’s a breathtaking number that clearly no team was interested in. The sudden market shift toward avoiding financial …
Pete Alonso and Eloy Jimenez: A Tale of Two Rookies
The game of baseball has been getting younger. We’ve seen an incredible influx of talented players who in years past would still be toiling in the minors. This year, we even saw teams throw service time considerations to the wind …
Red Sox Postseason Projections Drop After Woeful Start
Listen to the Red Sox players. The manager. Cliches flow. Groundless excuses whirling across empty spaces. Homilies about unwanted consequences. More soliloquies about the promises of the next game ahead. And just as baseball can be redemptive, it can be …
This Week in Baseball – Red Sox Start, Home Runs, Bochy Farewell, Davis Slumps, Dodgers Bobbleheads
Do Over… The bad news is that with a walk-off loss to the Diamondbacks, the Red Sox have tied the worst start in the team’s history at 2-8. It’s the worst start of the season for a World Series champion …
Meme-O-Random: 2019 Red Sox Rough Start
Last year the Boston Red Sox won the World Series and this season they look like a team that won’t make the playoffs. They don’t even have the excuse the injury-riddled Yankees have. The starting pitching has been terrible, but …
Reserve Clause (Almost) Fifty Years Later: A Closer Look
Who says the new, younger, more analytically oriented general managers are not astute baseball men? Not Ronald Acuña. Not his family. And certainly not his financial planner, who suddenly has a lot of money to manage. Because the eight-year, $100 …
Yankees Look Like Chumps, Not Champs
There were such high hopes. The Yankees looked great on paper before the start of the 2019 season. A loaded lineup. A flame-throwing bullpen. And a pretty solid rotation. This was a team that looked ready to finally return to …
Ramon Laureano and Craig Kimbrel: Performance Versus Value
Into the Teeth of the Shift Too many articles have been written in the sporting press recently about the folly of Craig Kimbrel’s current lack of employment. Seems some writers believe Kimbrel still offers top-notch performance for the value he …
Swan Song Season for Bruce Bochy and Giants
As I write, the San Francisco Giants are a day away from their home opener at the now, yet again, renamed stadium at Mission Bay. Oracle, is it? There is no irony in noticing that opening day might be a …
Up is Down, Left is Right with Sputtering Red Sox
31 March 2019 There was a Little League moment in the Boston Red Sox’s 6-5 loss to the Seattle Mariners last Saturday evening. Seattle third baseman, Dylan Moore, almost single-handedly fumbled the game away in the top of the ninth …
