Joe Posnanski

In about 10 days, I head to Beijing. Well, no that’s not quite right. In 10 days, I head to Dallas. From there, I will head to Tokyo. From there I head to the longest layover in the history of mankind; I’m hoping to pass the time by either writing the great American novel or watching the movie Tess,* whichever takes longer. And from there I head to Beijing. According to my itinerary, I leave on a Monday morning. I arrive Christmas ... Read More

Does anyone ever “feel” like eating something? I wonder about this because it seems universal ... whenever you ask someone, “So, what do you feel like eating?” they will inevitably say that they don’t have an opinion. They are open to anything. It’s up to you. Really. Whatever. It’s all good. I can eat anything. I’m not picky. Would I look like this is I was picky? Ha ha. No seriously, whatever you want is good with me. About the only thing ... Read More

Well, we haven’t had one of these for a while ... a long, winding, pointless, rambling blog post that is probably filled with dozens of mistakes and took up way, way too much of my day. We’ll correct the mistakes as we go along, but in the meantime ... I’m willing the wager this is the only 3,400 word post you will see all day based on something to do with Mark Grudzielanek. * * * Mark Grudzielanek is hitting .652 against Kenny Rogers. ... Read More

OK, so a few brilliant readers were wondering if we might offer a compilation of GREAT seasons that takes the players' position into account. Well, sure, why not? Anything for my brilliant readers. In order to it quickly, I simply looked up the Top 500 seasons of “Runs Created Above Position,” (it came out to 522 with ties). I threw the names into an excel file (it turned out that 51 RCAP was the cutoff), and I sorted them out. Here then, ... Read More

Appearance No. 1: Vs. Detroit Tigers Innings: 1 Hits: 0 Earned runs allowed: 0. Strikeouts: 1 Walks: 0 Homers: 0 Extra base hits: 0. Decision: ND (0-0) Number of pitches: 12 Number of strikes: 8 BABIP: .000 (0 for 2) Season BABIP: .000 No, we’re not abandoning Brian Bannister. Of course not. We’ll get to him in a minute. But first ... the Royals got demolished by Detroit 19-4 on Monday night in a game notable for two events. 1. The horrible, awful-to-watch, turn-your-head-away performance of Jimmy Gobble. It was painful, ... Read More