Welcome Back, Baseball
It’s party time – we’ve got box scores again. Honest to goodness, real life, team against team box scores. This is fantastic.
Jeff Francoeur went 0 for 4 and left 3 men on base.
Gerald Laird hit a triple.
The Reds threw Edinson Volquez, Johnny Cueto, and Homer Bailey at the Rays in succession.
Jerry Hairston Jr hit a grand slam.
Horacio Ramirez couldn’t get out of the first inning.
And yes, Andruw Jones struck out in his only at-bat.
Welcome back, baseball. It’s been too long.
Yes, I know, spring training doesn’t mean anything. The records and statistics don’t matter. The games don’t count. In many cases, the game is decided by whether one team’s has-been is better than another team’s never-will-be.
I don’t care. It’s baseball. It’s box scores. We can say goodbye to our latest winter of discontent. Hooray baseball.
Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
Corey Hart homered!!!!
Oh baby, it’s extra inning baseball in Maryvale, Arizona!
Jerry Hairston Jr hit a grand slam?
Was it inside the park???
(Yaay baseball!)
This morning I found NCAA boxes on the web, back to 2005 (for Virginia Tech)! Now I only have to automate the download and parsing of the play by play! My own splits and park factors for college! I am giddy!
The opening cadence of gloves popping in the spring is the sweetest sound on earth. It has the power to heal . . . or, in my case, the power to make a grown man nearly forget his wife’s birthday. Gotta run!
In a way, nothing could be more like baseball than hearing that Jerry Hairston Jr. hit a grand slam.
Let the fantasy world go crazy speculating on small sample sizes! Let the “results of new found chemistry” stories grace the pages of our sports pages. Let me figure out a way to MLB.tv so I can actually start watching.
How about Luis Castillo with 4 rbi, and a 2b? crazy i tell ya.
Nelson Cruz went 2-3 with a Bomb, he’s a beast.
“I believe in the church of baseball. I’ve tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones… and the only church that feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball.”
Where’s the updated win probabilty graph, Mets had a nail biter.
Millions of Americans are losing their jobs — and Horacio Ramirez keeps getting hired?!?
Francoeur took an o-fer and Andruw Jones was 0-1 w/ a K, huh? The more things change, the more they stay the same.