Gavin Lux and 2022

November 20, 2021

On November 15, I started to write about the impatience some fans have with Gavin Lux, and it imploded into an overall generalization about many fans seeing MiLB stats and believing that those numbers will automatically translate to MLB numbers.  And then when they do not, then many of those some fans want that player to suddenly drop to the bottom of the heap or at the very least banned…

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JOHNNY PODRES – THE ORIGINAL HYUN-JIN RYU

July 8, 2020

Outside the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, a statue depicting southpaw Johnny Podres after a pitch release stands 60 feet, six inches from a statue of catcher Roy Campanella. They commemorate the Brooklyn Dodgers winning the 1955 World Series over the New York Yankees, one of the most iconic moments in Dodger history!   The photo of the elated Podres leaping into the arms of Roy Campanella, with Don…

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How Do YOU Judge Trades?

March 31, 2017

Well the Freeway Series has started and this gives FAZ one more chance to scout and decide if they want to pull the trigger on a Caleb Ferguson/Mitchell Hanson trade for Mike Trout.   Sure it is silly and extreme, but it is only slightly more silly than some of the Cole Hamels trade proposals I read.   It’s easy to sit back and look at results and say that was a…

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