On this date in 1998, former New York Highlander and St. Louis Brown Red Hoff passed away. At 107 years, four months, and nine days old, the left-handed pitcher had the longest life span of any player in Major League history, out-living his closest competition by more than five years. He pitched to a 2.49 ERA in 83 innings from 1911-1915, but never played after serving in World War I.
Here are a few interesting links from around the blogosphere…
- Phoul Balls interviewed Low-A Greenville manager and former big leaguer Billy McMillon.
- SPANdemonium chatted with Greg Schaum about the Royals' farm system, arguably the best in baseball (well, it's not really all that arguable, it is the best).
- U.S.S. Mariner chimes in on the Carmen Fusco firing in the wake of the Josh Lueke fallout.
- Prospect Insider looks back at the trades Jack Zduriencik made during his first year as Mariners GM.
- Pine Tar And Pocket Protectors examines if Jim Thome was the best signing of the offseason.
- The Few, The Proud, The Braves compares Brian McCann to David Ross.
- SDSports.net wonders if Luis Durango has a future with the Padres.
- Cubs Pack projects Chicago's 2011 payroll.
- Yankeeist asks what kind of contract Derek Jeter will get next season.
- The Nats Blog looks at Adam Dunn's place among the best home run hitters in history.
- The Hardball Times matches up each of the 30 teams with a character from The Simpsons.
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Nice interview, Span! I didn’t even know you had a blog.
Ross isn’t as good as that article makes him out to be. I’m close to 100% certain that he’d be overexposed and fail with more playing time, as he has in the past. He’s still one of, if not the best back-up catcher in the Majors.
Absolutely loved the Hardball piece comparing teams to simpsons characters, i didn’t like the jays to frank grimes comparison. but rather frank grimes then barney or lionel hutz!
Better than Baltimore being compared to the Crazy Cat Lady.
Some of those Simpsons comparisons are hilarious, some of them are a bit of a stretch. Some of them are just plain lazy, but mad props for using “cromulent” in a sentence.
DOH!
DOH!
Thanks, much appreciated. And you know!
I don’t see the Cubs spending too much if anything on bullpen help. They seem content to use young guys. The back end of Cashner, Marshall and Marmol is pretty good and they are only going to get better.
I don’t see the Cubs spending too much if anything on bullpen help. They seem content to use young guys. The back end of Cashner, Marshall and Marmol is pretty good and they are only going to get better.
HAHAHA! I love the Cubs to Homer Simpson comparison. I was at the All-Star game this year and a drunk cubs fan sat in front of me yelling about how the Cubs were still OK…