Braun Deserves Benefit of the Doubt, but Leak Gives Black Eye to All

By On December 12, 2011 · 4 Comments · In General Musings, Negative Storylines, News and notes

(The following is being syndicated fromThe Captain’s Blog).

If  decision to head west was a time bomb, Ryan Braun’s positive test for performance enhancing drugs was an atomic blast. Already facing the loss of  to free agency, the Brewers must now go forward with Braun’s pending 50-game suspension hanging [...]

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Causation and Alex Rodriguez’s Tough Year

By On December 12, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Alex Rodriguez had, by his lofty standards, a horrible 2011 season. Old friend Larry tries to explain why:

As you know, Alex Rodriguez hit a career-low 16 home runs across 428 plate appearances in his injury-riddled 2011 campaign, or a pace of 26.75 PA/HR. However, this pace wasn’t impacted by his second [...]

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Ryan Braun’s failed test for PED’s shows MLB’s commitment to enforcement, but is a black eye for the game

By On December 12, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Negative Storylines

I cheered when baseball announced the aggressive testing for HGH that was part of the new collective bargaining agreement. While I don’t care if players took steroids and other performance enhancing drugs before the game banned the use of such substances, it is better for baseball if its brightest stars don’t operate under a [...]

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Imagining a Nakajima inclusive roster

By On December 12, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Roster Decisions

Last week at the Winter Meetings, the Yankees won the rights to Japanese infielder Hiroyuki Nakajima. We were a bit surprised by this, and so were the Yankees. Per the link above, they see Nakajima in a utility role. If he does sign, and that is his role, what [...]

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