0 comments by Tim Livingston on 4/14/2012
It’s a story that will be told to generations of Oakland A’s fans who populate the right field bleachers. Well, at least until they move out of Oakland. Jeff Francoeur has been a sabermetric whipping boy for quite a while now, as after his time sucking up right field for the Atlana Braves, Frenchy took […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 4/12/2012
“Speed kills.” Throughout the 1980’s, that was the widespread belief amongst baseball teams, as the game’s greatest leadoff hitter, Rickey Henderson, was piecing together his Hall of Fame career by being the game’s greatest threat on the basepaths. It wasn’t so much that he was fast. It was that he was able to take walks […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 4/11/2012
Extensions are all the rage in baseball, nowadays. In the last 24 hours alone, there have been three players inked: Brandon Phillips, Carlos Santana, and Ian Kinsler. That’s not to mention guys like Matt Cain and Joey Votto, who signed mega-extensions last week. If one were to go back and think about an extension that might […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 4/10/2012
When something like today’s events transpire at Coors Field, one just has to stop and accept the unacceptable. Believe the unbelievable. Fathom the unfathomable. Prepare for the Apocalypse. For the first time in just under nine years, San Francisco Giants left-handed fifth starter/albatross Barry Zito threw a shutout, and in the most offensively charged environment […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 4/9/2012
Welcome back to Minor League Mondays! With the 2012 season off and running, we’ll be looking at the big players in the minor leagues and take a closer look at the players who are making themselves known on a higher level. In fact, a look at our list from last year sees a couple of players […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/11/2012
Our final stop in our Trip Around the Minors series takes us to the Midwest League, where batting averages stay low and good pitching is rewarded. It was formed in 1954 building off teams from the Illinois State League that was previously started in 1946. It eventually became the entity it is known as today […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/7/2012
Our final jaunt in the minor leagues takes us to Low-A, where there are two leagues. We’ll start in the South Atlantic League, which has been the name of numerous leagues since 1903. It started up and re-started up four times before 1963, when it was turned into the Double-A Southern League in 1964. Sixteen […]
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This past weekend, I had the pleasure of traveling to Boston to take part in the 6th annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Business and presented by ESPN. A friend is currently studying statistics and asked if I would like to come along, so I was able to hitch […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/2/2012
Our final stop amongst the High-A leagues takes us to the West Coast and the California League, which has been in existence for nearly 80 full seasons. It established itself in 1941 as a Class D league with eight teams. When the United States entered World War II after their inaugural season, the league downsized […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 3/1/2012
We have turned the corner in our trip around the minors, as we now travel to the small corner of the High-A ranks with the Carolina League. It began in 1945 as World War II was ending, originating in North Carolina in the Raleigh area. In fact, over the 67 year history of the league, […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/29/2012
What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. The Boston Red Sox no longer dream of just getting to a World Series with the hopes of […]
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Ah, the Florida State League. My home for two seasons as I worked for the Dunedin Blue Jays. It’s our next stop as we move to the High-A portion of our Trip Around the Minors, and we move to arguably the most humid of leagues in all of baseball. Beginning in 1919, the FSL sported […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/28/2012
What else can baseball fans do in January but dream of October? In You May Say I’m a Dreamer, the Outside Corner staff will imagine the route to a World Series in 2012 title for all 30 teams. How hard is it to dream about a great 2012 for the Yankees? In reality, how hard is […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/24/2012
Welcome to our final Double-A entry into “A Trip Around The Minors”. Today, we are going to take a look at The Texas League, which is…well, it spans four states. Which is weird for a league called the Texas League, but I digress It was established in 1888 and didn’t become an affiliated-level league (at […]
0 comments by Tim Livingston on 2/23/2012
Welcome to this installment of “A Trip Around The Minors.” Today, we will take a look at the Southern League, seen as the mid-point in both offensive and defensive production of the three Double-A leagues. The Southern League can trace its roots as far back as 1885, making it the second oldest league we’ll cover […]
