Bryan Price tries deciphering the week that was from the batters box, by the numbers
-A miserable start; Zito got hammered on opening day. His line—5 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, and 1 K, and only two swinging strikes. The tragic thing is, he needed all the luck in the world to get that line...
The season has officially begun and I would like to introduce a weekly column that I will devote to ranking the top ten players based on their batting statistics. I have written a few stories about statistics before, and have gotten some mixed feedback...
The 2001 baseball season seems like ages ago. It was the year that the Diamondbacks’ veteran left fielder, Luis Gonzalez hit a looping,heart-thumping bloop that finally drew Yankee blood—and ...
In an article I recently wrote about Jack Cust, I received a few comments about a statistic I used to prop up Cust’s astronomically high strikeout total of 164—in only 507 plate appearances no less...
After one season, Jack Cust is still a bit of a vagary to Oakland fans. The unruly statistics from his first full season offer a pungent picture of a player hardwired to do one of three things—walk, ...
It has been 16 years since the San Francisco Giants broke camp without their mercurial and churlish left fielder who had come to virtually define their club—for better or worse...
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