Today's links are the most important things you'll click this week ...
* I don't link capriciously. I believe in my links. Which isn't to suggest that all links are created equal. There are some links that deserve more attention than I can give them, and here's one of them. I can't support Kevin Appier's Hall of Fame candidacy -- sorry, Rany -- but this might be the single best way of looking at Cooperstown credentials that I've ever seen.
* On the other hand, I won't argue that you have to read this ... unless you've got a Hall of Fame ballot, in which case I beg you to read it.
* wezen-ball digs up (among other things) Bill James' first appearance in The Sporting News, nearly 35 years ago. And even then, it was just so Jamesian.
* Baseball Digest Daily's Bill Baer reviews Jack Zduriencik's track record, and it's one impressive track record. Eventually the M's GM is going to pull off a clinker, but he's got a big head start.
* You have to wait a while for the payoff. But not too long, and this fellow Carson Cistulli's Sportswriting Manifesto makes a fair bit of sense.
* With Hideki Matsui becoming an Angel, Ken Belson writes about the off-the-field ramifications of Godzilla leaving Gotham.
* What to make of Aaron Hill? You might be shocked at the list (courtesy of Geoff Young) of players who Hill out-homered last season. What will Hill do in 2010? As Young notes ... Who knows? Hill hit two home runs in 2008 and 36 home runs in 2009. We don't really have any tools that tell us what he's going to do in 2010.
* Lots of choice comments in Lynn Henning's take on the Tigers' various closer candidates.
* I don't link capriciously. I believe in my links. Which isn't to suggest that all links are created equal. There are some links that deserve more attention than I can give them, and here's one of them. I can't support Kevin Appier's Hall of Fame candidacy -- sorry, Rany -- but this might be the single best way of looking at Cooperstown credentials that I've ever seen.
* On the other hand, I won't argue that you have to read this ... unless you've got a Hall of Fame ballot, in which case I beg you to read it.
* wezen-ball digs up (among other things) Bill James' first appearance in The Sporting News, nearly 35 years ago. And even then, it was just so Jamesian.
* Baseball Digest Daily's Bill Baer reviews Jack Zduriencik's track record, and it's one impressive track record. Eventually the M's GM is going to pull off a clinker, but he's got a big head start.
* You have to wait a while for the payoff. But not too long, and this fellow Carson Cistulli's Sportswriting Manifesto makes a fair bit of sense.
* With Hideki Matsui becoming an Angel, Ken Belson writes about the off-the-field ramifications of Godzilla leaving Gotham.
* What to make of Aaron Hill? You might be shocked at the list (courtesy of Geoff Young) of players who Hill out-homered last season. What will Hill do in 2010? As Young notes ... Who knows? Hill hit two home runs in 2008 and 36 home runs in 2009. We don't really have any tools that tell us what he's going to do in 2010.
* Lots of choice comments in Lynn Henning's take on the Tigers' various closer candidates.
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