Boston.com 1/21/05 Inside jobs http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/01/21/inside_jobs/ One majored in history at Wesleyan University. One studied psychology at Harvard. One pursued American studies at Colby College. O…

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/graduate/sdshelby/giants/ [My Team Payroll Analysis: the salaries of the current projected 25-man opening day roster (previous edition on November 4th): SP: Schmidt $6.25M, Rueter $5M, Tomko $2.65, Williams $0.4…

The Hardball Times 1/19/05 Ranking the Relievers http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/ranking-the-relievers/

Yahoo Sports 1/17/05 Vintage formula still works in San Fran http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=vintageformulastillworks&prov=tsn&type=lgns General manager Brian Sabean has taken an old team and made it even older. But believe owner Pet…

ESPN 1/13/05 Sabean's senior discount http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=ratto_ray&id=1966083 S.F. Giantsのベテラン中心チーム編成 C - Mike Matheny, age 34, 11 years major league time 1B - Jack Thomas Snow, age 37, 13 yea…

The Hardball Times 1/12/05 Team Bullpens http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/team-bullpens/ Over at Baseball Prospectus, they keep track of something called Win Expectancy Added for every major league reliever, which I assume is base…

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20050112&content_id=930439&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp/ A's agree to $1 million deal with Japanese pitcher Yabu http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-athletics-yabu&prov=ap&type=lgns …

Mercury News 1/10/05 No rest for N.L. rivals in West http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/baseball/mlb/san_francisco_giants/10608273.htm Expect the Giants to be widely hailed as favorites as the season approaches. ``They've ad…

Slate 6/3/03 Billy Beane's Genius: Letting the Data Do the Talking http://slate.msn.com/id/2083857/entry/2083881/ この文章からリンクが張られているのが、A Bill James Primer, Extracted from The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1988, Ballantine B…

Waiting for Boof 1/6/05 http://giantsblog.blogspot.com/ 1. Matt Cain (P, 1984) http://www.thebaseballcube.com/profiles/CA/tbc21472.asp 2. Nate Schierholtz (3B, 1984) http://www.thebaseballcube.com/profiles/SC/tbc37692.asp 3. Merkin Valdez …

ボストンのデレク・ローのドジャーズ移籍が固まりつつあるが、読んでいた記事の中に、 He has pitched for Boston since being traded to the Red Sox by Seattle along with catcher Jason Varitek for reliever Heathcliff Slocumb in 1997. こんなフレー…

ボストン奇跡の大逆転をビデオで復習する。特に第4戦の7回から第7戦の3回まで。 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=241017102 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=241018102 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=241019110 http://spor…

Free Agent Wrap-Up: The Fourth Wave Bonds is only going to be superhuman for so long, so Sabean has pieced together an extraordinarily "veteran" group of players this offseason without any sort of eye towards the future, signing guys like …

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/20041218/p4 のつづき。 Free Agent Wrap-Up: The Fourth Wave Moises Alou | San Francisco Giants | two years | $13.25 million Eric Milton | Cincinnati Reds | three years | $25.5 million Matt Clement | Boston …

直接対決は今年も19試合。 http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=bos&m=4&y=2005 4/4(Mon), 4/6(Wed), 4/7(Thu) @NYY 4/11(Mon), 4/13(Wed), 4/14(Thu) @BOS http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=…

Yankees, Red Sox, Angels to pay luxury tax New York is required to pay $25,026,352, according to a Dec. 21 memorandum that was sent to all major league teams. Two other teams also owe money for exceeding the payroll threshold of $120.5 mil…

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/sf/schedule/tentative_2005_season_schedule.jsp 開幕は4月5日(火)SBC ParkでLA戦。

NYT 12/25/04 After Shopping Season, Boston Must Await Returns http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/25/sports/baseball/25chass.html?oref=login The Red Sox began the off-season with 15 free agents, nine of whom were on the World Series team. Not a…

O Captain! My Captain! Varitek gets contract, 'C' on jersey The Boston Red Sox appointed Varitek their third captain since 1923 after giving their longtime catcher a $40 million, four-year contract. ``We're not asking Jason to change at al…

Giants to add another Alou If Bonds continues to hit fourth in the lineup, as Felipe Alou recently indicated, Moises Alou would bat third or fifth. Either way, it should represent an upgrade for the Giants, who had nobody besides Bonds wit…

MLB.com (Giants) 12/22/04 Giants mailbag: Up in arms If pieces fall into place, rotation could be formidable Coincidentally, this could be the year. Imagine a Big 4 of Jason Schmidt, Brett Tomko, Jerome Williams and Noah Lowry, with the pe…

NYT 12/20/04 Economics Wilt 'Moneyball' Fantasy THOSE of us who do not subscribe to the "Moneyball" approach to baseball, the theories laid out in the book that celebrates Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, have been quick to point to …

Yahoo sports 12/18/04 A's trade Mulder to Cardinals for prospects The Oakland Athletics traded their second top starter in three days, sending left-hander Mark Mulder to the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday for a pa…

Free Agent Wrap-up First Wave Troy Glaus | Arizona Diamondbacks | four years | $45 million Nomar Garciaparra | Chicago Cubs | one year | $8 million Jeff Kent | Los Angeles Dodgers | two years | $17 million Jon Lieber | Philadelphia Phillie…

S.F. Giantsの補強は、Omar Vizquelから始まった。 ショート守備の強化が目的である。 http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/vizquel-to-the-giants/ The first free agent to switch teams this offseason is Omar Vizquel, whose three-year, $12.25…

The Hardball Times 11/18/04 Inside the Mind of Brian Sabean http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/inside-the-mind-of-brian-sabean/ この論考では、 (1) Younger/Winning(8): MIN, TEX, ANA, LAD, ATL, FLO, OAK, CHW (2) Older/Winning(8): NYY,…

新刊書購入「Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season」by Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King Beginning with an e-mail exchange in the summer of 2003, novelists King and O'Nan started keeping diaries chronicling …

結局、セントルイスは何も起こすことができず、ボストン4連勝でワールドシリーズは終わってしまった。 ボストンのモメンタムはそれほど凄かったわけだが、セントルイスには、この4戦目を「なりふり構わず、翌日のことなど考えず、どんなことをしてでも勝つ」…

やはり今年のワールドシリーズはニューヨーク対ボストンだったのである。 本当にあのALCSでの、ボストン3連敗からの4連勝を見て、燃え尽きてしまったなぁ。 「ワールドシリーズへ行けるのか、ここで終わりか」という勝者・敗者の差が鮮やかなLCSと、「どっち…

3連敗から4連勝。メジャーリーグ、ポストシーズン史上初の大逆転を果たしたボストン・レッドソックス。 今年のボストンはロースター25人のバランスが取れた強いチームで、明らかにニューヨークよりもいいチームである。史上最強のチームの一つに数えられる素…