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Al Cowens contributed a full third of his 13-year career's WAR total in 1977, with a 5.2 WAR mark in right field, but he ran into an incredibly talented group of American League outfielders in Carl Yastrzemski, Reggie Jackson and Jim Rice.īill Parker writing at Pinestriped Bible discusses the possibility of the Yankees trading for Brian McCann: Could the Braves' Brian McCann Be a Russell Martin Alternative for the Yankees? - Pinstriped Bible The 1977 Royals sent George Brett and no one else, even though they finished the season with the best record in baseball. Baseball has twice given a 100-win team the All-Star short shrift.

So which players are good candidates for qualifying offers, and what will their teams decide to do?ĭan Lependorf of the Hardball Times finds the best teams in baseball history who only had one All-Star: The best teams that only had one All-Star-THT

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Players who receive them will have until the seventh day after the Series to accept or reject. Qualifying offers must be extended by 5:00 PM Eastern on the fifth day after the World Series. A complete record of their votes can be found in The Bill James Handbook 2013.īen Lindbergh of Baseball Prospectus predicts which free agents will receive qualifying offers this offseason: Baseball Prospectus | Overthinking It: Predicting the First Offseason of Qualifying Offers First place votes received 10 points, second place 9 points, third place 8 points, etc. John Dewan of Bill James Online released the 2012 Fielding Bible Awards based on a poll of a fantastic panel of experts: The 2012 Fielding Bible Awards | Articles | Bill James OnlineĪ panel of 10 analysts, listed below-including Peter Gammons, Bill James, Joe Posnanski, and Doug Glanville-examined the 2012 seasons of every defensive player in Major League Baseball and then used the same voting technique as the Major League Baseball MVP voting. Tom Tango of the Book Blog culled a list of the 15 best starting pitchers in baseball, right now: THE BOOK-Playing The Percentages In Baseball-Best Pitchers in MLBġ. Dramatic and unbelievable, absolutely, but the game did feature five errors and 12 walks, so it wasn’t necessarily the most artfully played game. Josh Hamilton blasted a two-run homer in the 10th, but the Cardinals tied it up again, Finally, Freese homered to win it.

The Cardinals were one strike from elimination in the ninth when David Freese tripled just over the head of Nelson Cruz to score two runs to tie. T’s hard to argue against the action in this one: The game featured six lead changes and five ties. Dave Schoenfield of ESPN SweetSpot rates the ten greatest World Series games of all-time: The 10 greatest World Series games - SweetSpot Blog - ESPN

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