I don’t normally do the guest post thing, but when I received the following from fellow BBA-er, Michael Jawitz of the Grubby Glove, I felt the topic was important enough to make an exception. This is a brilliant idea, and even if you cannot do a whole game, anything you can do would help… A [...]

Holy Buckets! I awoke this morning to a ground covered in white, and a car temp gauge that read 17 degrees as I was driving to work, and a weekend forecast that includes a snowfall of 3-7 inches (or more in the higher elevations) And to think, in 30 Days, the battery mates of the [...]

In the annual polling of members of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin and former Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell were recommended for induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is the third year the organization has conducted this survey of the membership. Larkin, a 12-time All-Star who fashioned [...]

So I take a few days off and enjoy my time off from work and the Red Sox over the Thanksgiving Day holiday, returning today–and it’s like when you stop watching your favorite soap opera for, like, 2 YEARS…and you come back, and nothing really much has changed… The Sox STILL do not have a [...]

Bautista holds off Ellsbury in American League There were some outstanding performances this year in Major League Baseball. However, one clearly stood out from the pack. Los Angeles Dodger outfielder Matt Kemp was named the National League Stan Musial Award winner for 2011 in voting held by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. Kemp received all 15 [...]

You can debate whether Justin Verlander should be win the “best player in the league” award, but there was no debate on if he’d win the “best pitcher” version. The Detroit Tiger ace was an unanimous selection for the Walter Johnson Award, given out by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance.  Verlander was the top name on [...]