ZEROES FOR HEROES Folks that still think there’s a problem with steroids in baseball need to look at what happened Tuesday night. There was a lot of great pitching, including six shutouts. Rookie pitcher Sergio Mitre pitched a complete game five-hitter against a tough Marlin lineup. Like Dusty Baker said, Mitre’s just a little pony […]
Continue reading →The last eight or nine years are known as the home-run era, and I think justifiably so, if for no other reason than Roger Maris’ home run record was broken three times, by Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. But all three of those players are also suspected of steroid use, so now people […]
Continue reading →This weekend, during the E$PN Sunday Night Baseball game between the Reds and the Dodgers, I talked a bit about Adam Dunn. He’s an interesting sort of hitter, because he’s known for doing three things when he’s at the plate. He either strikes out, walks, or hits a home run. I said that it was […]
Continue reading →I want to clear up some misunderstandings over the issue of walks and OBP. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback from my recent posts, particularly the one written by me and HR. People are writing things like “Joe, you led the NL in walks four times! How can you say that walks aren’t important?” Listen […]
Continue reading →Harold Reynolds: In the latest installment of our ongoing discussion on hitting, Joe and I are going to get into the whole on-base percentage craze, and discuss what it means — as a hitter — to walk. Joe Morgan: It’s very telling that the people talking about on-base percentage are the people who have never […]
Continue reading →As you know, one of the bigger stories this past week was Alex Rodriguez. On Tuesday night, he hit three home runs and drove in ten runs. That performance but A-Rod near the top of the RBI charts in the majors – he has 26 going into tonight’s game, only one less than Cubs first […]
Continue reading →Hey fans, Joe Morgan here. When I found out that my colleagues over at the Baseball Tonight mothership had started their own blog, I immediately recognized an opportunity to kick off some serious discussion about my favorite book and yours, “Moneyball,” by Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane. By now many of you “Moneyball” followers […]
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