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Written by Brian Joura
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:18 |
 Legendary Yankees owner George Steinbrenner passed away on Tuesday. A true larger-than-life figure, Steinbrenner was generally hated by non-Yankees fans across the nation. There were a bunch of reasons to hate Steinbrenner but generally it boiled down to the fact he would commit whatever financial resources it took to win, a tack that few, if any, other owners in the game employed. Every single fan who complained about the Yankees “buying” championships wished his team would do the same.
Steinbrenner bought the Yankees during a rare pennant drought for a net cost of $8.8 million, which rivals purchasing Manhattan from the Indians for a few trinkets. The latest Forbes numbers have the Yankees being worth $1.6 billion, inclusive of debt. You have to spend money to make money, a fact not lost on Steinbrenner.
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Written by Brian Joura
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 14:31 |
 While the All-Star break is still ahead of us, every team has played at least 81 games, meaning we’ve past the mid-point of the year. So now is a good time to see how players have performed compared to their preseason expectations. For this piece I used the dollar values of our own Lenny Melnick and compared them to the current dollar values from the price guide at Last Player Picked and looked for the biggest discrepancy.
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Written by Brian Joura
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:06 |
 One of the great baseball sites on the net is Greg Rybarczyk’s Hit Tracker, which uses physics, statistics and automated spreadsheet design to track true home run distance and includes video of the homer. Rybarczyk’s data is complete through the 2006 season and also includes some homers from 2005. Using information from that site, here are the Top 10 Longest Home Runs in the Hit Tracker era.
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Written by Brian Joura
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 00:00 |
 John Kruk, when a fan complained about him being out of shape, said, “Lady I’m not an athlete, I’m a baseball player.” Ty Cobb, when asked to say something positive about Babe Ruth, responded, “Well he runs pretty good for a fat guy.” There have been plenty of successful overweight baseball players all throughout MLB history, but there is still a stigma that causes players and clubs to fudge the weight of some players.
If you peruse the listed weights of MLB players you are bound to find ones that leave you wondering: Why didn’t they weigh him with both of his feet on the scale? So, with the understanding that listed weights may or may not be totally accurate, here are the Top 10 Heaviest Players in MLB History. |
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Written by Brian Joura
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 08:25 |
 Both the Mets and Yankees won Tuesday night. The Yankees are now tied with the Rays for first place in the AL East, while the Mets are ½ game back of the Braves in the NL East. The Yankees are playing .641 ball, which translates to 104 wins over a full season. The Mets are at .563, which puts them on a pace to win 91 games.
How good would that combined 195 wins be for the two New York teams? Since the Mets started play in 1962, here are the Top 10 Combined Mets-Yankees Win Seasons.
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 00:11 |
Major League Baseball has a long history of father-son combinations. Sometimes a player will get a look just because of his surname and what his father did in the majors. But here I want to look at father-son combos where both ends put up good careers. So, while Eddie Collins was a Hall of Famer, Eddie Collins Jr. had a non-descript three-year career and therefore the Collins do not make this list.
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