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Posnanski: How do retreads find way with Yanks?
Joe Posnanski: Vernon Wells is just the latest example of a seemingly washed-up or borderline player becoming a useful piece in pinstripes. How do the Yankees do it?
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Posnanski: Would MLB be better without playoffs?
Joe Posnanski: As Americans, we love our playoffs. But, would America's favorite pastime be better served to take a lesson from across the pond and do away with playoffs, a la the English Premier League?
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Topps Changes Baseball Card Numbering, to Criticism
A change in the Topps company’s numbering system for its baseball cards has upset some fans and collectors.
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West Notes: Beane, Padres, Mattingly
Athletics GM Billy Beane is in favor of recognizing teams with the best regular-season records, NBC Sports' Joe Posnanski reports. Beane, who was quoted in Moneyball as saying his "s*** doesn't work in the playoffs," calls the postseason a "gauntlet of randomness." "[W]e allow small sample sizes and random events to determine the champion. That’s how it is in baseball," says Beane. Each team ...
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The Big Read: Matt Harvey and the power of the pitching phenom
In today’s Big Read, Joe Posnanski takes a look at Matt Harvey‘s impressive start to his major league career and the idea of pitching phenoms in general. In doing so, Posnanski turns back the clock to examine some other pitchers who dominated early on in their careers, including Steve Rogers, Mark Fidrych, Fernando Valenzuela, Dwight Gooden…
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Inches costly to Fighting Irish
CHAPMAN – Author Joe Posnanski in his 2007 book about baseball and Buck O’Neil called baseball, in this case softball, a game of inches.
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Yes, you need to read another post about Jack Morris pitching to the score
It’s Joe Posnanski’s post, and it’s a good one. Yes, he goes over a lot of the old Jack Morris territory, but he also has some stuff in there which explains why we go over this territory so damn often. After observing, as many have, that Jack Morris got a lot of run support and…
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NBA Injury Report: Latest Updates on Luol Deng, Raymond Felton and More
Joe Posnanski recently wrote an intriguing article about the difference between most American sports and the English Premier League. While the World Cup and Champions League are run in a playoff style, the Premiership has no playoffs at all. The best team over the long season wins. Strength of schedule isn't an issue either, given the home and home scheduling. The NBA, on the other hand, has ...
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AL Notes: Ankiel, Mariners, Twins, Ramirez, Ortiz
Rick Ankiel could be nearing the end of his well-documented but still-surreal path through baseball, writes Joe Posnanski of NBCSports.com. Evoking the poet Dylan Thomas ("rage, rage against the dying of the light ... do not go gentle into that good night"), Posnanski notes that Ankiel's journey has taken one more incredible turn. In 42 plate appearances this season prior to this evening's game ...
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The next great baseball movie?
Fun piece from Rob Neyer at SB Nation on what the next great baseball movie might be, following the success of "42." He asks different people for their ideas -- Bob Costas says Barry Bonds (good luck finding an audience for that one), Allen Barra suggests Bill Veeck (definitely), Joe Posnanski suggests Roberto Clemente (makes sense), Richard Lally suggests the post-Black Sox life of Shoeless Joe ...
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