Links: 2006, Songs, Top 20, and Shea
At his blog Sully Baseball, Paul Sullivan thinks the Tigers, A’s, Padres, Dodgers, Twins, Yankees, and Mets may all still be haunted by their 2006 failures.
Ted Berg of SNY.tv humorously starts counting down his choices for K-Rod’s warm-up song, writing:
“Picture it: Ninth inning, home team up by a run, middle of
the order due up, tension mounting, and “chingety-ching heehaw, heehaw, it’s Dominick the Donkey!”
…nice one ted, i’d personally choose public enemy’s ‘shut em down’…
At Amazin’ Avenue, Eric Simon continues his series of best Mets players by decade, highlighting the most effective pitchers based on SNLVAR. Mets Geek describes this statistic as the following:
“SNLVAR measures wins above replacement level for a pitcher; it avoids the noise of Wins Above Replacement Level because it doesn’t take offense or defense into account. Considering some pitcher’s hit much better, it’s good to be able to separate those items out if need be.”
Jon Heyman at Sports Illustrated ranks his top 20 free agents this offseason.
…in case you are wondering, braden looper didn’t make the cut…looper by the way is reportedly seeking a three-year deal worth about $7-$8 million per season...
Lastly, the blog Mostly Mets forwards new pictures from WCBS of the construction and demolition of the Mets’ ballparks.
