The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So) By Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Ryan Murphy, and Chris Strait Daryl Strawberry has just written his first book. He would have finished sooner but he was stuck on Chapter 11 for the better part of a decade. PETA activists showed up at Madison Square G...

New York Mets Baseball America Top 10 Prospects Lineup Luis Castillo 2B Jose Reyes SS David Wright 3B Carlos Beltran CF Carlos Delgado 1B Daniel Murphy/Fernando Tatis LF Ryan Church RF Brian Schneider C Rotation Johan SantanaMike PelfreyOliver PerezJohn MaineFreddy GarciaTim ReddingLivan HernandezJo...

What a day, especially if you're a prospect nerd. On the same day the Indians held their first intrasquad game, the final World Baseball Classic rosters were announced, AND Baseball America released their top 100 prospects for 2009. The Indians were represented well on both lists. The WBC will featu...

The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So)By Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Ryan Murphy, and Chris Strait The Pittsburgh Steelers barely beat the Arizona Cardinals, after collapsing like they were Pittsburgh's job market. The city is now on top of the sports world. And to remain there, they're ...

The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So)By Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Ryan Murphy, and Chris Strait The Detroit Lions have signed head coach Jim Schwartz to a four-year deal, or 64 losses, whichever come first. Pirates chairman Bob Nutting recently told reporters that an MLB salary cap wo...

Don't worry, there is very little math involved this time. For many years, sabermetricians ignored fielding, at least partially because it was so much harder to quantify compared to hitting. The original fielding metric is fielding percentage, (outs + assists)/(outs + assists + errors). That was fin...

Thanks to the hard-working Sky Kalkman over at Beyond the Boxscore, here's a spreadsheet of the Indians 2009 predicted Wins Above Replacement (WAR). Some notes: For hitting and pitching, I used the CHONE projections. On Sky's suggestion, I also used the quick-and-dirty formula (OBP*1.75 + SLG)/3 to ...

We had decent voter turnout this year, 8. Again due to the diversity of nominees, I set the induction threshold at 4 votes, and four individuals met that mark. Buck O'Neil : He's a hall of famer to me, and that's alright with him. Erin : She was already awesome. And then she agreed to marry me. Fr. ...

The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So)By Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Ryan Murphy, and Chris Strait The Lions slipped to 0-15 after losing 42-7 to the Saints. On the positive side, the team is just one more loss away from a massive congressional bailout. After their loss this weekend, the...

As an experiment, I crowdsourced my bowl preview, and two brave souls responsed. My own thoughts are at the end. In the interest of time, and because they just flow better that way, I'm leaving everyone's previews intact. AflacNow, I don't study depth charts or stats to the degree that Kanka does, s...