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My Sickels Prospect List Rankings

Schide — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:10:57 -0000

John Sickels released the last of his team prospects lists tonight, the Reds. So, before he gives you his team prospect rankings, I will give you mine, based on a combination of Sickels lists and, basically, the Pirates Report Prospect values.

It was pretty simple how I came up with the rankings. I just gave each prospect for each team a number of points based on their grade and if they are a hitter or a pitcher. I did it this way because of how the values are different for hitters and pitchers even in the same range in the value report. The points are simply based on the rounded dollar values of each prospect. Based on the number of prospects for each grade, I felt like they slotted in fairly well with the overall ranking range. For example, there were 9 "A" prospects this year, so you can say that an "A" prospect in the top 1-10 in a prospect ranking. There were 17 "A-" prospects, so those fell in line with prospects #11-25, etc. The grades and their corresponding rankings as well as their point values are as follows:

A: 1-10, Hitters (42), Pitchers (26)

A-: 11-25, Hitters (33), Pitchers (18)

B+: 26-75, Hitters (14), Pitchers (11)

B: 76-150, Hitters (8), Pitchers (6)

B-: 151-300, Hitters (5), Pitchers (4)

C+: 301-600, Hitters (3), Pitchers (2)

C: 601-1200, Hitters and Pitchers (1)

Now obviously this is far from perfect, especially once the grades get down past where PP ended their values. But I figured the remaining grades would have values similar to the point values I gave them based on the descending value in general and how hitters and pitchers compared in the actual values. So here are the rankings the were spat out of my magic machine (Google Docs):

Rangers - 195
Cardinals - 190
Mariners - 180
Rays - 175
Cubs - 168
Astros - 168
Mets - 168
Red Sox - 165
Marlins - 163
Pirates - 159
Twins - 159
Padres - 141
Diamondbacks - 132
Reds - 131
Indians - 123
Rockies - 121
Yankees - 119
Orioles - 114
Royals - 111
Giants - 108
Phillies - 105
Brewers - 105
Athletics - 105
Dodgers - 104
Braves - 102
Nationals - 102
Blue Jays - 95
Tigers - 88
White Sox - 78
Angels - 77

Make of it what you will. It's probably no more or less accurate than anything else anyone has come up with based on his lists. I'll be curious to see how this ranking compares with Sickels' official one, considering he puts a lot more into his considerations. And since, you know, he made all the grades in the first place. If I explained something poorly or if anything wasn't clear, or if anyone just has any questions, ask away.

Um, also I forgot I was going to wait until he finalized everything, but I forgot about that until now, so I'm just going to post this anyway because it's done, and I can make an addendum or something later. I guess.

A: 1-10, Hitters (42), Pitchers (26)

A-: 11-25, Hitters (33), Pitchers (18)

B+: 26-75, Hitters (14), Pitchers (11)

B: 76-150, Hitters (8), Pitchers (6)

B-: 151-300, Hitters (5), Pitchers (4)

C+: 301-600, Hitters (3), Pitchers (2)

C: 601-1200, Hitters and Pitchers (1)

Rangers - 195
Cardinals - 190
Mariners - 180
Rays - 175
Cubs - 168
Astros - 168
Mets - 168
Red Sox - 165
Marlins - 163
Pirates - 159
Twins - 159
Padres - 141
Diamondbacks - 132
Reds - 131
Indians - 123
Rockies - 121
Yankees - 119
Orioles - 114
Royals - 111
Giants - 108
Phillies - 105
Brewers - 105
Athletics - 105
Dodgers - 104
Braves - 102
Nationals - 102
Blue Jays - 95
Tigers - 88
White Sox - 78
Angels - 77

Cutch to be on cover of MLB The Show 13

Schide — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:12:58 -0000

Cutch to be on cover of MLB The Show 13

Huh. I didn't even know there was a contest . Didn't see anyone on here mention it, heh.

Additional Cutch quote: "I am humbled and thrilled that you, the fans, have voted me as the cover athlete for MLB 13: The Show. It really is a dream come true for me to be on the cover of a video game, but even more, I wanted this for Pittsburgh, a city that has supported us through some rough times. You deserved this.

Seeing how the fans came out in full force for this all week long overwhelmed me. You voted non-stop at all hours of the day, and I cannot thank enough for that kind of support. Many of you lost Twitter followers, deprived yourselves of sleep and spent every free moment of your day voting on Twitter and Facebook. #MLB13Cutch became more than a hashtag - it became a movement. I owe that to all of you.

This vote showed me the sense of pride that the people of Pittsburgh have, along with all the other fans that supported me.

I cannot express enough how appreciative I am of your support, and how thankful I am that you chose me for this.

I can only promise all of you that I am going to continue to work my hardest to prove that you made the right choice and help bring the World Series trophy back to Pittsburgh.

Thank you.

Cutch"

Baseball Related Christmas Presents

Schide — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:53:07 -0000

Or whatever holiday. It's all good, baby.

So did anyone get anything cool that's baseball related? I'd love to hear about or see pictures of cool stuff you guys might have got. Of course, starting like this I must have something I want to post about, right? Well of course!

My parents got a nice Louisville Slugger bat that was autographed by a current Pirates player. They showed it to me and I could not figure out who it was until I saw the number. I don't know if the number is clear enough in the pictures or not, but I want to see if anyone can guess who it is either way. Looks kind of like IPeu Glcz to me.

Or whatever holiday. It's all good, baby.

It's too bad I didn't think of this last year, as last's year gift was probably a bit cooler. It was an autographed and framed print of the front page of The Atlanta Constitution from the day after Hank Aaron hit number 715. And the year before that was an autographed and framed picture of Bob Feller's no-hitter. And the year before that was an autographed and framed picture of Yogi Berra shaking hands with Babe Ruth. Just Yogi Berra's autograph.

So let's hear it!

Current Pirates Player Finally Being Released As McFarlane SportsPick

Schide — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:43:05 -0000

Current Pirates Player Finally Being Released As McFarlane SportsPick

I'm well aware that nobody else might give a crap about this, but personally I have been waiting for them to release a current Pirate in this line for, well let's see now, about 31 series, which I believe is over 10 years at this point. So I am sufficiently excited and have absolutely preordered one.

The Gathering III: The Endrunkening

Schide — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:01:43 -0000

It was already two full weeks ago that we held the third multi-blog gathering in as many years. Cocktailfor2, our gracious host and event organizer, put together this fun little meetup in which members of Bucs Dugout and the Pittsburgh Sports Forum, Pirates edition could meet each other and have a grand old time before, during, and possibly after that night's game. I'm sure every individual has a story to tell, and we'd be pleased if they would tell them in the comments.

My own story isn't much to tell, really. My dad and I went to the Gathering and arrived around 3 or so. C42 led us to our little corner of heaven in Gold Lot 2...that is, as long as you believe heaven is located next to a tailgating frat house. So we arrived and we met cocktails, BurgherKing, Dr. Roxtar, Horace Clarke, and of course Charlie and WTM, et al. So we spent the rest of the time eating the food and drinking the drink. PghPinstripes brought his guitar and serenaded us with a few choice tunes. And of course since my dad was there, he took up the guitar as well and played a few. Because he plays the guitar a lot, you see.

Yeah that's all I got. The Pirates won so that was cool. It included that weird inning where they scored 5(4?) runs with no hits. You don't see that every day.

Here are some more pictures.

I had great seats last night, first row behind the Pirates dugout, so I took a bunch of pictures...

Schide — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:22:31 -0000

I had great seats last night, first row behind the Pirates dugout, so I took a bunch of pictures and made a little highlights video.

You can see the pictures in my album here.

FanGraphs: The Game: Bucs Dugout Edition

Schide — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:46:03 -0000

I know a decent number of you go to FanGraphs, and I'm sure some heard seen the new game they unveiled yesterday. It's kind of convoluted the way they made it, but I think it could out to be pretty good fun.

Basically, you can create a player for up to 8 positions and put them on a team, and all palyers on each team compete for a place of the depth chart, and to be to #1 player at the end of the year. To do that, you pick a major league player each day with a cap of 162 games (for the most part) and $1000 (for the most part). For each day, whatever each player you does at the plate, or however they pitch, those stats are added to your created player. Over the year the stats will build up like your player would be playing in actual games, or whatnot.

So, since there is a way to keep track of specific created players, I thought maybe we could have a Bucs Dugout "league" as it were, where everyone who is interested would be in the group and we'd just kind of compete against each other, or track each other during the year. I made a player for each position and obviously made them all Pirates, although the team you select isn't really that important, at least for this. So if anyone wants to do this, post in here and I'll figure out how to add your players to the list because I haven't actually tried that out yet. But it should be like adding real player to a real Custom Teams list which is pretty easy.

You can see the complete rules for the Game here. A FAQ post just went up recently as well.

Fangraphs Position Power Rankings - Pirates Exclusive

Schide — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:57:47 -0000

All right so Fangraphs had a series of posts over the last week rankings teams by position. Unsurprisingly the Pirates didn't do so well, having only two positions in the top ten and having several down near the very bottom. I figured I'd copy all the tables so the Pirates' rankings and ZIPS and WAR projections could be in one neat and tidy spot. Hopefully this looks ok, it does in the preview.

Because I forgot at first, here's the post on Fangraphs that has a link to each Position Rankings post as well as each team's Top 15 Prospects post. There's also an Intro link that gives an overview of what the rankings represent.

Catcher – 29
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZIPS BA	ZIPS OBP	ZIPS SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Rod Barajas	R	450	0.251	0.291	0.44	-1	1
Reserve	Michael McKenry	R	250	0.227	0.294	0.355	1	0.5
							Total WAR	1.5

First Base – 27
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZiPs BA	ZiPs OBP	ZiPs SLG	Field	WAR
Starter	Garrett Jones	L	570	0.252	0.317	0.432	-3	0.8
Utility	Casey McGehee	R	75	0.262	0.311	0.398	0	0
Prospect	Matt Hague	R	75	0.26	0.319	0.377	0	0
							Total WAR	0.8

Second Base – 10
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZIPS BA	ZIPS OBP	ZIPS SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Neil Walker	S	650	0.268	0.325	0.432	-4	3
Reserve	Josh Harrison	R	50	0.271	0.308	0.377	1	0
							Total WAR	3

Shortstop – 28
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZiPs BA	ZiPs OBP	ZiPs SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Clint Barmes	R	500	0.249	0.305	0.374	5	1.5
Super Utility	Josh Harrison	R	150	0.271	0.308	0.377	N/A	0.5
Reserve	Chase d’Arnaud	R	50	0.236	0.297	0.356	N/A	0.5
							Total WAR	2.5

Third Base – 17
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZiPs BA	ZiPs OBP	ZiPs SLG	Field	WAR
Starter	Pedro Alvarez	L	500	0.245	0.323	0.447	-3	2.5
Reserve	Casey McGehee	R	150	0.262	0.311	0.398	-1	0.5
Super Utility	Yamaico Navarro	R	50	0.249	0.306	0.371
							Total WAR	3

Center Field – 6
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZIPS BA	ZIPS OBP	ZIPS SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Andrew McCutchen	R	600	0.274	0.361	0.455	3	5
Reserve	Nate McLouth	L	50	0.243	0.34	0.391	-6
Reserve	Alex Presley	L	50	0.275	0.324	0.426
							Total WAR	5

Right Field – 24
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZiPS BA	ZiPS OBP	ZiPS SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Jose Tabata	R	550	0.278	0.349	0.394	1	2.5
Reserve	Nate McLouth	L	150	0.243	0.34	0.391	-6	0
							Total WAR	2.5

Left Field – 15
Role	Player	Bats	PA	ZiPs BA	ZiPS OBP	ZiPS SLG	Fielding	WAR
Starter	Alex Presley	L	550	0.275	0.324	0.426	1	2
Reserve	Nate McLouth	L	150	0.243	0.34	0.391	-6	0.5
							Total WAR	2.5

						Total	Batting WAR	20.8

Starting Pitching – 29
	Player	Hand		IP	BB/9	K/9	HR/9	WAR
	Charlie Morton	R		130	3.6	5.9	0.6	1.5
	James McDonald	R		130	4.1	7.8	0.9	1
	Brad Lincoln	R		120	2.4	5.6	1	1
	Kevin Correia	R		120	2.7	5.4	1.2	0.5
	Jeff Karstens	R		120	2.1	5.3	1.4	0.5
	Erik Bedard	L		100	3.3	8.2	0.9	1.5
	A.J. Burnett	R		100	3.7	7.5	0.9	1
	Jo-Jo Reyes	L		100	3.3	5.3	1.2	-
							Total WAR	7

Relief Pitching – 14
Role	Pitcher	Hand		IP	ZiPS K/9	ZiPS BB/9	ZiPS HR/9	WAR
Closer	Joel Hanrahan	R		65.1	9.8	3	0.55	1.5
Setup	Chris Resop	R		52	9.9	4	0.87	0.5
Setup	Jason Grilli	R		52.1	9.5	3.8	0.86	0.5
Setup	Evan Meek	R		49.1	7.9	4.2	0.73	0.5
							Total WAR	3

						Total	Pitching WAR	10

						Total	Team WAR	30.8

SSS of Local Sports Talk Radio

Schide — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:25:00 -0000

We could all use a laugh right about now. Or at least a chuckle. Maybe a titter? So here are some of things I heard today while listening to the Fan, whether they be from callers or the hosts or so forth. I don't want to say who exactly said some of this, but rest assured these were all (mostly paraphrased) actual thing people said.

Mike McKenry is now the Pirate Catcher of the Future and therefore they should trade away Tony Sanchez. (Just like Ronny Paulino)

The Pirates should trade Lyle Overbay, Ryan Doumit and Sanchez for Hunter Pence. (Darn, too late now!)

Or they could trade Stetson Allie, Starling Marte and Brad Lincoln for Josh Willingham. (I bet Oakland would take that.)

If Josh Harrison was taller he would be the Pirates first baseman. (Hitting a robust .270! Also comes with walk!)

Get Jason Giambi to play first. (Do they allow MLB players to play in wheelchairs?)

Steve Pearce is an absolute embarrassment to the Pirates organization and should be gotten rid of immediately. (That's not enough, I saw off with his head!)

Jose Tabata got injured and has had setbacks because he doesn't prepare enough for the season. (I have no idea what this was even supposed to mean.)

"Nutting should cut the strings off his damn puppet!" (This has nothing to do with an opinion that Bob Nutting is controlling everything that Neal Huntington does, no. It was just a helpful suggestion because Nutting, an avid marionette enthusiast, must have asked for help getting one of his puppets untangled.

Catchers are always overrated. (Yup. Always. And first baseman are always underrated.)

Brian Sabean is so respected because he wins. (Not to disparage Sabean much, but this still made me laugh.)

Mike McKenry is now the Pirate Catcher of the Future and therefore they should trade away Tony Sanchez. (Just like Ronny Paulino)

The Pirates should trade Lyle Overbay, Ryan Doumit and Sanchez for Hunter Pence. (Darn, too late now!)

Or they could trade Stetson Allie, Starling Marte and Brad Lincoln for Josh Willingham. (I bet Oakland would take that.)

If Josh Harrison was taller he would be the Pirates first baseman. (Hitting a robust .270! Also comes with walk!)

Get Jason Giambi to play first. (Do they allow MLB players to play in wheelchairs?)

Steve Pearce is an absolute embarrassment to the Pirates organization and should be gotten rid of immediately. (That's not enough, I saw off with his head!)

Jose Tabata got injured and has had setbacks because he doesn't prepare enough for the season. (I have no idea what this was even supposed to mean.)

Catchers are always overrated. (Yup. Always. And first baseman are always underrated.)

Brian Sabean is so respected because he wins. (Not to disparage Sabean much, but this still made me laugh.)

Andrew McCutchen Can Levitate Baseballs With His Mind

Schide — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:52:27 -0000

Andrew McCutchen Can Levitate Baseballs With His Mind

Now that's a Fanshot!

Why are you a Pirates fan?

Schide — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:36:14 -0000

Right now the Pirates are in a bit of a unique situation. No other team and fanbase has really had to endure anything like what they have had to endure the past 18 years. Which leads me to the queston: Why are you a Pirates fan? Now obviously there are a lot of people around Pittsburgh right now who will say they are fans. But it takes a bit more dedication to be posting on a Pirates specific blog, especially if you've been here for years, and double especially for this team. It's not even a given that you're a fan if you live in Pittsburgh, like it usually is for the Steelers (and to a lesser extent, The Pens) This makes me think that there must be some interesting stories behind why you root for this team. Many of you don't live in Pittsburgh, and perhaps you grew up here, but maybe you didn't. Maybe some of you weren't even born in this country! This is what I want to know.

My personal story starts with my dad. He was born in Harrisburg so he grew up a Phillies fan. His favorite player was (shockingly) Mike Schmidt with Steve Carlton coming in a close second. So as I was growing up here in Pittsburgh, he used to take me to a good number of Pirates games, and then I started collecting baseball cards around 1990 or so, and I vaguely remember watching the Pirates in the playoffs those years. My favorite player growing, and still my favorite player ever is...Nolan Ryan. Yeah I know that doesn't really make and specific sense, but whatever. Around the time I started collecting cards he was getting his 5,000th strikeout, so I guess i just kind of took to him.

Anyway, years later when I started into my teams I started closely following the various sports here in town and actually watching every game I could and keeping track of the stats and standings and so forth. So I remember quite fondly the 1997 Freak Show even though I was just about to get started in high school. So I kept following the Pirates over the years, even with their complete lack of success. My favorite memory would have to be getting to go to the All-Star game in 2006 with my dad, when my grandfather (on the other side of the family, if it matters) got us partial season tickets in 05 and 06 in order to be able to get those All-Star game tickets.

So that's my story I suppose, not the most interesting story, but maybe we'll get some better ones as we go.

An addition to: "The # 1 pick in historical perspective "

Schide — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:44:40 -0000

Basically I wanted to list the fWAR of all the #1 picks, minus the players drafted in the last few years. I was going to just post this as a reply in that thread, but the lack of formatting made it unreadable.

Career WAR is self-explanatory. WAR/150 is a batter's WAR per 150 games played, while WAR/200IP in the same, but per 200 innings pitched. They're not exactly comparable, and 180 IP might have been better, but I went with 200. Top 5 Peak WAR is the average of each player's 5 best WAR seasons. If they didn't play that many seasons, then the total was divided by however many seasons they did play.

		Career WAR	WAR/150G - WAR/200IP	Top 5 Peak WAR
2007	David Price	7.8	3.7	2.0
2006	Luke Hochevar	5.3	2.3	1.0
2005	Justin Upton	9.8	3.1	2.0
2004	Matthew Bush	0.0	0.0	0.0
2003	Delmon Young	1.2	0.3	0.4
2002	Bryan Bullington	0.0	0.0	0.0
2001	Joe Mauer	33.7	6.0	5.9
2000	Adrian Gonzalez	22.9	3.8	4.7
1999	Josh Hamilton	17.6	5.4	3.4
1998	Pat Burrell	21.6	2.0	3.0
1997	Matt Anderson	0.8	0.6	0.4
1996	Kris Benson	15.0	2.4	2.8
1995	Darin Erstad	29.6	2.7	4.0
1994	Paul Wilson	8.7	1.8	1.6
1993	Alex Rodriguez	110.4	7.0	9.7
1992	Phil Nevin	17.4	2.1	3.6
1991	Brien Taylor	0.0	0.0	0.0
1990	Chipper Jones	85.8	5.6	7.3
1989	Ben McDonald	21.8	3.4	3.5
1988	Andy Benes	35.7	2.9	4.2
1987	Ken Griffey	83.9	4.7	8.6
1986	Jeff King	17.8	2.2	3.1
1985	B.J. Surhoff	35.6	2.3	3.5
1984	Shawn Abner	-0.8	-0.3	0.1
1983	Tim Belcher	31.4	2.6	3.7
1982	Shawon Dunston	8.9	0.7	1.4
1981	Mike Moore	35.7	2.5	4.4
1980	Darryl Strawberry	43.2	4.1	5.4
1979	Al Chambers	-0.4	-1.0	-0.1
1978	Bob Horner	20.9	3.0	3.0
1977	Harold Baines	45.3	2.4	3.7
1976	Floyd Bannister	33.9	2.8	4.1
1975	Danny Goodwin	NA	NA	NA
1974	Bill Almon	4.6	0.6	1.3
1973	David Clyde	3.6	2.2	0.9	*No WAR data for 1973
1972	Dave Roberts	2.4	0.5	0.9
1971	Danny Goodwin	-0.9	-0.5	0.1
1970	Mike Ivie	9.2	1.6	1.9
1969	Jeff Burroughs	21.6	1.9	3.3
1968	Tim Foli	11.0	1.0	1.8
1967	Ron Bloomberg	9.3	3.0	1.9
1966	Steve Chilcott	0.0	0.0	0.0
1965	Rick Monday	38.0	2.9	4.0

AVG		21.4	2.2	2.8

What to conclude from this? Well for one, every pick averages out to be at least an average performer for the length of their careers, and even better during their peak. Like SHOOTFOR2010 said, they are 3 fairly obvious HOFs in Griffey, Jones and Rodriguez, although there is fairly steep drop-off from them to the next player in terms of career WAR, Harold Baines with 45.3. Of course, a few players drafted since 2000 can still get to that level or above, though now Mauer has an injury history and might move off catcher, and Gonzalez plays 1st, which is no help when attempting to accumulate WAR, and might very well have to DH eventually. Hamilton has already missed so much, so he probably have the chance to accumulate as much as he might have. That's about all I have to say I guess.

		Career WAR	WAR/150G - WAR/200IP	Top 5 Peak WAR
2007	David Price	7.8	3.7	2.0
2006	Luke Hochevar	5.3	2.3	1.0
2005	Justin Upton	9.8	3.1	2.0
2004	Matthew Bush	0.0	0.0	0.0
2003	Delmon Young	1.2	0.3	0.4
2002	Bryan Bullington	0.0	0.0	0.0
2001	Joe Mauer	33.7	6.0	5.9
2000	Adrian Gonzalez	22.9	3.8	4.7
1999	Josh Hamilton	17.6	5.4	3.4
1998	Pat Burrell	21.6	2.0	3.0
1997	Matt Anderson	0.8	0.6	0.4
1996	Kris Benson	15.0	2.4	2.8
1995	Darin Erstad	29.6	2.7	4.0
1994	Paul Wilson	8.7	1.8	1.6
1993	Alex Rodriguez	110.4	7.0	9.7
1992	Phil Nevin	17.4	2.1	3.6
1991	Brien Taylor	0.0	0.0	0.0
1990	Chipper Jones	85.8	5.6	7.3
1989	Ben McDonald	21.8	3.4	3.5
1988	Andy Benes	35.7	2.9	4.2
1987	Ken Griffey	83.9	4.7	8.6
1986	Jeff King	17.8	2.2	3.1
1985	B.J. Surhoff	35.6	2.3	3.5
1984	Shawn Abner	-0.8	-0.3	0.1
1983	Tim Belcher	31.4	2.6	3.7
1982	Shawon Dunston	8.9	0.7	1.4
1981	Mike Moore	35.7	2.5	4.4
1980	Darryl Strawberry	43.2	4.1	5.4
1979	Al Chambers	-0.4	-1.0	-0.1
1978	Bob Horner	20.9	3.0	3.0
1977	Harold Baines	45.3	2.4	3.7
1976	Floyd Bannister	33.9	2.8	4.1
1975	Danny Goodwin	NA	NA	NA
1974	Bill Almon	4.6	0.6	1.3
1973	David Clyde	3.6	2.2	0.9	*No WAR data for 1973
1972	Dave Roberts	2.4	0.5	0.9
1971	Danny Goodwin	-0.9	-0.5	0.1
1970	Mike Ivie	9.2	1.6	1.9
1969	Jeff Burroughs	21.6	1.9	3.3
1968	Tim Foli	11.0	1.0	1.8
1967	Ron Bloomberg	9.3	3.0	1.9
1966	Steve Chilcott	0.0	0.0	0.0
1965	Rick Monday	38.0	2.9	4.0

AVG		21.4	2.2	2.8

Fangraphs writer wants to punish certain teams by relegating them to the minor leagues

Schide — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:51:29 -0000

Fangraphs writer wants to punish certain teams by relegating them to the minor leagues

This...look, last year at one point someone on a random message board had much the same idea and was shot down pretty unanimously. Personally I thought it was absolutely insane. But now we an actual contributor for Fangraphs coming up with what is essentially the same idea. It absolutely boggles my mind.

Sidney Crosby's Historic Season

Schide — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:58:42 -0000

Sidney Crosby's Historic Season

Nice article on Hockey Prospectus about Crosby's season so far.

Rocco DeMaro was fired by Clear Channel today

Schide — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:38:28 -0000

Rocco DeMaro was fired by Clear Channel today

Ugggggggh. There goes pretty much the only intelligent Pirates discussion on the radio. I would love to just not listen to the Pirates on the radio until they hopefully change stations, but sometimes that's just not possible for me. I think their deal with 104.7 is up after this year, and I just hope to god that they will sign a deal with another station.

EDIT: Oh, awesome, a minute after I post this they take his page down. Real classy you effing bastards.

Fangraphs Top 100 Prospects

Schide — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:50:05 -0000

Fangraphs Top 100 Prospects

Because everyone needs more top 100 prospects lists.

Probably the best for the Pirates I've seen, they actually have 4 players on this one; Pedro Alvarez at #10, Brad Lincoln at #54, Tony Sanchez at #60 and Jose Tabata at #93.

I wonder if I did this right because it's not like I can preview it!