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Who’s On Deck? – with The Bottom Line

Written on May 4th, 2008 by Guest Columnist1 Comment

On Sundays, while most of us sleep off Saturday
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Filed under Boof Bonser, Clay Buchholz, Curtis Granderson, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Detroit Tigers, Joe Nathan, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, Justin Verlander, Minnesota Twins, Placido Polanco, Tim Wakefield Tags:

A.L. Award voting thru 4/7

Written on April 6th, 2008 by Evan Brunell0 Comments

Each week, I will be participating in the 2008 MLB Blog Poll, put together by BaseballHappenings.com. Below are my current votes for the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie [...]

Filed under A.J. Pierzynski, Alex Rios, Alex Rodriguez, Blogpoll Awards, Daric Barton, David Murphy, Felix Hernandez, Joe Nathan, Nick Blackburn, Rich Harden Tags:

2007 Saves per Inning Pitched

Written on February 15th, 2008 by Evan Brunell4 Comments

Every year, I run a feature here at Fire Brand called Saves per Inning Pitched (SIP). It’s a little statistic I made up that in the general scheme of things, [...]

Filed under Al Reyes, Alan Embree, B.J. Ryan, Billy Wagner, Bob Wickman, Bobby Jenks, Brad Hennessey, Brett Myers, Brian Fuentes, Chad Cordero, Chris Ray, David Weathers, Eric Gagne, Francisco Cordero, Francisco Rodriguez, J.J. Putz, Jason Isringhausen, Jeremy Accardo, Joakim Soria, Joe Borowski, Joe Nathan, Jonathan Papelbon, Jose Valverde, Kevin Gregg, Mariano Rivera, Matt Capps, Ryan Dempster, Takashi Saito, Todd Jones, Trevor Hoffman, Troy Percival Tags:

Is Papelbon the best closer in the game?

Written on August 24th, 2007 by Evan Brunell12 Comments

Three days ago, Jonathan Papelbon became just the fourth pitcher in major league history to save 30 games in his first two full seasons. He joins Billy Koch, Kaz Sasaki [...]

Filed under Billy Wagner, J.J. Putz, Jason Isringhausen, Joe Nathan, Jonathan Papelbon, Takashi Saito Tags: