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Hall Of Fame Is Why Awards Still Matter
For Internet baseball writers, cries of apathy have drowned out the usual complaining about the BBWAA Awards voting. What used to be "here's why Johan Santana was a much better choice for the Cy than...
Off Day Discussion Topic: Your First Game
I went to yesterday's Father's Day tilt against Houston with my dad, which got me thinking about my very first Twins game: July 16, 1987. I was five years old, and though the Twins were unbeatab...
Graph of the Day: Blyleven vs. Sutton vs. Ryan
There's something foul in the air...smells like...a dead horse. WAR data from Sean's historical WAR database, now new and improved with pitcher WAR! Each players' seasons sorted from best to ...
Seattle 6, Twins 1: Opportunistic Mariners spoil Twins' opener
In 2008, the Twins hardly could fail when the opportunity arose. Minnesota hit .305 with runners in scoring position, leading the majors by a wide margin, and that talent for clutch hitting took the t...
Blyleven not elected to Hall, barely improves vote total
Rickey Henderson sailed in, Jim Rice eked in, but Bert Blyleven will have to wait at least one more year. The Hall of Fame-worthy righthander got 338 votes, or 62.7% of the possible votes, to fa...
Will this be Bert's Year? (poll)
The National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the 2009 inductees on Monday at 12:30 Central time, live on the MLB Network and on MLB.com. Last year, Bert Blyleven got 61.9% of the vote, a p...
In case you were wondering...
Just a few Did You Knows from Monday's game (all research from Baseball-Reference.com)... Bobby Korecky's 11th-inning single was the first hit by a pitcher in Metrodome history. It was also the fi...
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