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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
Two Overlooked Blogs
Today, two bloggers who I don't think get enough attention. First, the Texas Rangers Blog. The M's have 25 known bloggers registered with baseballblogs.org, although you'd have to believe that the interest level's attenuated somewhat from recent years. The TRB, on the other hand, represents only one of five, and really, that should represent one of two, the other three being Beer and Whiskey League (not actually Rangers-specific), and the two inactive blogs, Buck And A Half and Rangers Correspondant Report, the latter another failed attempt along the lines of the MVP series of blogs.
The second blog I would draw your attention to is Rich Lederer's Weekend Baseball BEAT (spelt thus, though I confess I have no way of knowing whether there is some meaning in the ucase'd "beat"). Rich, whom I was privileged to meet some weeks ago at a Dodger game, has been a big proponent of Long Beach State pitcher Jered Weaver, of late an Angel draftee. In recent weeks, Rich has written a fine string of retrospectives of Bill James' Baseball Abstracts, his most recent one particularly apropos to the discussion of Eric Karros' de facto retirement, because it includes commentary on arguably the Dodgers' best first baseman of the second half of the twentieth century, Steve Garvey:
TRB has recently run a good article on the makeup of the Rangers, and in particular, how former headcase Ryan Drese came to be actually -- gulp -- competent. As well, he's got a lengthy analysis of the Hart/Fuson/Hicks GM fiasco that will almost certainly result in Fuson's expulsion from the Rangers organization. (This has already resulted in calls from myself and U.S.S. Mariner to hire Fuson as scouting director for our respective clubs.) While those two articles still qualify as somewhat atypical (at least in terms of length), good work needs applause and encouragement.
The second blog I would draw your attention to is Rich Lederer's Weekend Baseball BEAT (spelt thus, though I confess I have no way of knowing whether there is some meaning in the ucase'd "beat"). Rich, whom I was privileged to meet some weeks ago at a Dodger game, has been a big proponent of Long Beach State pitcher Jered Weaver, of late an Angel draftee. In recent weeks, Rich has written a fine string of retrospectives of Bill James' Baseball Abstracts, his most recent one particularly apropos to the discussion of Eric Karros' de facto retirement, because it includes commentary on arguably the Dodgers' best first baseman of the second half of the twentieth century, Steve Garvey:
Because Rich doesn't necessarily cover a particular team and posts infrequently (usually on weekends), I feel he gets overlooked at all-baseball.com; he's worth seeking out.James writes “if you [asked a computer] to pick the perfect over-rated player, you would get—Steve Garvey:
- Plays in Los Angeles.
- Has played for championship teams.
- Is a television personality.
- Is White.
- Is very well suited to his home park.
- His strengths are exactly the three ‘scoreboard’ statistics.
- He is an offensive player with very little defensive value.
- He does very few things well, but does them very well.”
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