Mike Piazza’s autobiography “Long Shot” is unusual for baseball autobiographies in that Piazza and his author Lonnie Wheeler truly cover EVERYTHING in a player’s career- it’s a whopping 350+ pages that covers his family, childhood, road to the big leagues,…
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Who is the Best Ace in Baseball History? (Pitcher’s WAR)
What is an ace in baseball? Would you believe that the term is not only debatable, but no one could agree on where the word originated from. Ace may be derived from its “number one” meaning in playing cards. Another…
Available 2010 Free Agents and Forced Retirements
I know, every year there are MLB free agents that no ones signs, and eventually these players are forced to retire, and you never hear from them again. So this may not be new by any means, but I’m just…
What Pedro Martinez on the DL means…
It means the DailySkew was RIGHT to believe that there was no way Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez could pitch an entire season together staying healthy. Trust me, the New York Mets will be battling injuries all year. And for…
Mets Injuries Killing Chances
As I predicted- the Mets may look good on paper, but they are cursed. The injury bug is contagious. They jinx themselves. But the fans still have high expectations because they have the so-called best 1-2 punch in baseball with…
Pedro Martinez to Clemens: I am now the best there was…
Pedro Martinez waited a long time for this. The debate many baseball experts, fans, and historians have been making is- who was the best pitcher of the modern era: Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, or Pedro Martinez? With Roger…
Johan Santana : High Hopes at Shea
It’s official. Senora and Senor SANTANA The New York MEDIA just had a field day introducing the best pitcher in baseball to Mets fans. Now, Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez are being heralded as an unstoppable force. Granted, Pedro WAS…
It’s official: Johan is a Mets pitcher
$22,833,000 a year until 2014 As a former Mets fan, if I was a Mets fan now, I would be very, very scared. Here’s why: 1) Peter Gammons is thrilled.2) The MEDIA doesn’t seem to be batting on eyelash, since…