Tom Powers, who apparently has a history of being an idiot, decided to make recently demoted Tsuyoshi Nishioka his punching bag recently. Of course, that would be completely fine, as Nishioka’s been a terrible player for the Minnesota Twins thus far and deserves to be criticized. However, what irked me was the direction in which Powers took the criticism. Nishioka ... Read More »
Is Yu Darvish seriously coming to America with a picture of weed on his shirt? No, probably not, as the Japanese maple leaf isn’t an uncommon logo. Of course, if it turns out to be weed, it shouldn’t surprise anybody, nor should it be taken seriously. Especially when one considers that Asians will put goddamn anything on their shirts. Read More »
As you probably already know by now, bidding on Yu Darvish ended just recently after the star right-hander was posted by the Nippon Ham Fighters a few days ago. I mention this because earlier today on Twitter I made a few statements about Yu Darvish and Asian players that generated some interesting discussion and I wanted to clarify my point. ... Read More »
I was about to take a nap today when I saw that MLB Trade Rumors had picked Jason Kubel to sign with the Dodgers. I made my way to FanGraphs to see if I could make a post basically laughing at Ned Colletti repeating his past mistakes of bringing in a veteran outfielder to block a talented youngster. On my ... Read More »
Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting