Most of what’s published on TedQuarters will be about sports. But no more than once a day, you’ll have to indulge me and put up with a post that has nothing to do with sports. This is one of those posts.
I believe the Wikipedia is one of our greatest cultural achievements. And so in it’s [...]
Matt Cerrone from MetsBlog.com says he doesn’t think the Mets should sign Dan Uggla because of Uggla’s free-swinging ways.
While Matt’s right that Uggla is an unrepentant whiffer, he does manage to get on base adequately enough to be a valuable hitter. Uggla posted a .360 on-base percentage in 2008 and a .354 mark in [...]
Here’s the third in this series. I picked the Blue Jays for Astroturf purposes, the Mets and Yanks because they’re the Mets and Yanks, and the Rockies and Phillies because of their noted hitter’s parks.
Looks like it’s just more noise.
Interestingly, the Rockies stayed above the league every single year. I wonder if the effects of [...]
Here’s the second graph from Jon T. Intern, plotting the Padres, Astros, Rays, Red Sox and Mariners. Why those teams? Mostly more randomness.
I picked the Padres and Mariners because of their reputations for having pitcher’s parks, the Astros because they have a stupid, ridiculous hill in center field, the Rays because they play on turf, [...]
Harold Reynolds, on the MLB Network earlier this week, suggested that the Twins have the best home-field advantage in all of sports.
Just in terms of baseball, that seems to make a lot of sense. After all, the Metrodome features two unusual characteristics — artificial turf and a white roof — that could give fits two [...]
People keep asking me to eat crow for bashing the Jeff Francoeur deal when it happened, and I’m still not willing to.
I’ll admit this: Francoeur outperformed Ryan Church for the remainder of the 2009 season, so in that sense, it worked out for the Mets. But I maintain that Church — though not worth a [...]
Sam Page of Amazin’ Avenue drives home a point I try to make all the time: labeling starting pitchers by rotation slot is pointless and unnecessary. Teams should just get the five best starters they can.
One of the biggest developments of the playoffs, I think, has been the exposure of Chip Carey as bad. I [...]
