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Mauer Near-Unanimous Pick as American League M.V.P.

Joe Mauer spent last weekend at his log cabin north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. He woke up Monday at his home in St. Paul and spent the afternoon at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, where his teammate Justin Morneau joined him to celebrate Mauer’s ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  American League,  Minnesota Twins,  Joe Mauer,  Justin Morneau

Mauer is Nearly Unanimous as A.L. M.V.P.

None of that is surprising. This was: the only player besides Mauer to receive a first-place vote was Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers. It was a curious vote, considering how Cabrera spent final weekend of the regular season. Cabrera was picked up ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Miguel Cabrera,  Detroit Tigers,  George Brett,  Dave Dombrowski,  Chicago White Sox

Free Agency Means Free Choice

Brian Cashman, the Yankees’ general manager, has certain go-to phrases. For a while, especially around the holidays, he would respond to trade rumors by smiling and saying, “ ‘Tis the season” – meaning the season for wild speculation. During the ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Brian Cashman,  Andy Pettitte,  Doug Glanville (baseball),  New York Times Company

Analysis: Not Your Grandfather’s Stats: Baseball Redefined

As Zack Greinke’s magical season rolled along, another Kansas City Royals pitcher, Brian Bannister, excitedly tracked his teammate’s progress. With the Royals long out of the pennant race, it did not matter to Bannister how many victories Greinke ...

From TYLER KEPNER, International Herald Tribune,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cy Young,  Zack Greinke,  Kansas City Royals,  Tim Lincecum,  San Francisco Giants

The Lessons of the Cy Young Awards

The intrigue of the baseball awards is over now, because the only question about the M.V.P. awards to be announced next week is whether Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols will be unanimous. I’m guessing they will. But this was a fun week for awards, and a ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cy Young,  Joe Mauer,  Albert Pujols,  Zack Greinke,  Tim Lincecum

Giants’ Lincecum Wins His Second Consecutive Cy Young

When the Cy Young Award was introduced in 1956, the voting was simple. Baseball writers voted for one pitcher, and that was that. Tim Lincecum, the Giants’ ace who went 15-7 this season with 2.48 e.r.a., won his second consecutive Cy Young Award. ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cy Young,  Tim Lincecum,  National League,  San Francisco Giants,  Adam Wainwright

At This Year’s Market, Yankees in No Rush to Buy

The baseball free-agent market opens Thursday night at midnight, but players will not have real estate agents on call for Friday morning. The market is expected to move slowly, and one reason is a lack of aggressiveness from the Yankees. Keep up with ...

From TYLER KEPNER, International Herald Tribune,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Brian Cashman,  Hal Steinbrenner,  Boston Red Sox,  Matt Holliday

What to Make of the Manager of the Year Award?

This is an odd award, isn’t it? Measuring a manager’s effectiveness is very hard to do, so voters usually compare results to expectations. That explains why Seattle’s Don Wakamatsu (two votes) and Texas’ Ron Washington (one) picked up votes: few ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  National League,  New York Mets,  American League,  Don Wakamatsu

And Now, the Encore: Yanks Charting Off-Season Course

General Manager Brian Cashman started assembling his scouts on Tuesday, beginning the annual brainstorming sessions that chart the Yankees’ off-season. In some ways, the task was easier last winter, because the Yankees’ goals were more clearly defined. ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Brian Cashman,  C.C. Sabathia,  A.J. Burnett,  Mark Teixeira

Use of Statistics Helps Greinke to Cy Young

It might have been a watershed moment in baseball’s statistical revolution. When the voting for the American League Cy Young Award was announced on Tuesday, Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals did not just win. He did it in a landslide. Keep up with ...

From TYLER KEPNER, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cy Young,  American League,  Zack Greinke,  Kansas City Royals,  Justin Verlander

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