Quick Content Update: Two of our favorite features from baseball season will live on this season, though I still have no plans to re-start this site any time soon. Voodoo Sabermetrics will now run on the far superior baseball site Babes Love Baseball. Smells Like Pujols will be rejiggered a bit to determine the potential [...]
Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
Outsourcing Labor for Baseball Season
Posted in Baseball, Blogrollin', Smells Like Pujols on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If You Need a Reason to Root for the Rockies:
Posted in Baseball, tagged Bus League Baseball, Mike Coolbaugh on October 5, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Mike Coolbaugh had only been coaching first base for the Tulsa Drillers for a few weeks before a line drive struck him in the head and killed him. To the players and administrators at Tulsa’s parent club, the Colorado Rockies, that makes no difference. Coolbaugh was family, and you take care of family. In this [...]
Another Blogger in Print
Posted in Baseball, Blogrollin' on October 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Usually I’m pumping up my own contributions to the MSM, but sometimes I get the happy feeling that comes with promoting others. Today, it’s one of my favorite baseball writers – Adam Godson from Bugs & Cranks. He put his Cubs knowledge to work and published a piece about Chicago reliever Carlos Marmol over at [...]
Categorical Dominance
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols, tagged Rookie of the Year on October 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
All season long, I have rated the rookies against the staggering 2001 totals of Albert Pujols. Not today. Today, they stand against only their fellow rookies. Here are final stats for the first-year hitters, including the one-game playoff for Kouzmanoff and Tulowitzki. NAME TEAM G AB R HITS 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO [...]
Jamey Carroll is my Hero!
Posted in Baseball, tagged Awful Announcing, Storming the Floor on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was an incredible one-game playoff last night. I live-blogged it at Awful Announcing and quite a few readers stayed up for the whole thing, to the tune of 173 comments. It was a five-hour extra-innings emotional wringer, so I may just rest on my laurels for much of today. With one exception. If baseballreference.com [...]
Smells Like Pujols: Rookie face-off
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols, tagged Kevin Kouzmanoff, Troy Tulowitzki on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following SLP all season (and I know you have), then you know Kevin Kouzmanoff and Troy Tulowitzki. In addition to having alliterative names which are delightful reminders of our nation’s open-door immigration policy, these two will be crucial parts of a one-game playoff on TBS tonight, as the Padres come into Mile [...]
MLB Season is Ending
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
You might have noticed I didn’t post yesterday. Today might be a little light as well. Work and life just getting the better of me right now, hopefully we’ll get back to normal soon. Just to remind you, though, the MLB season is coming to a close, and several of our rookies (see sidebar) are [...]
Albert Pujols=Rookie of the Century
Posted in Baseball, Best Of, Smells Like Pujols on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
All season long I have kept an eye on this year’s rookie hitters, wondering which one would match the incredible achievements of Albert Pujols in his inaugural year at the plate. I have used Pujols as the standard, with 1000 points as his dedicated number. With my modification of Similarity Scores, I have allowed for [...]
Smells Like Pujols – Back to Jack
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I will be completing my historical Rookie of the Year comparisons. The MLB website only traces the Jack Robinson award, and ignores any awards that might have been given out prior to that, so that’s what I’m doing. Besides, as we creep backward toward the dead ball era, the stats can only get farther [...]
My Doctor Made Me Cut Out the Salt
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OK, nobody’s making me cut out the Salt. Saltalamacchia, that is. I’m doing it because it’s the right thing to do, like eating oatmeal (thanks, Mr. Brimley!). Salty had a good rookie campaign, but he simply never saw enough at bats. He still hovers well below 200 plate appearances on the season, which puts him [...]
