I’m trying to get back into the habbit of Friday columns. The goal will be to recap some of the baseball happenings from the previous week and preview the weekend.
Let’s start with some bad baseball.
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Bullpen Banter: Building A Ballpark
This week, Russ brings up the question of ballparks and what features make a good ballpark.
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Oakland continues their impressive climb up the rankings. 10 weeks ago they ranked #18 and they were at #26 13 weeks ago. They, along with division rival Rangers, have one of the most balanced ranking breakout in the league.
And Houston has managed to hold onto #30 for the 7th consecutive week.
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Here are this weeks power rankings, a day late due to Labor Day. The Nationals are out of the top spot. The Astros are still looking at the first overall pick. Some prospects have been promoted.
These rankings are a combination of each teams record, run differential, and farm system. The scores for each are weighed, with record worth the most and farm system the least. Records and runs are as of the morning of 09/04/2012.
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Bullpen Banter: Adam Dunn
After a long pause, Bullpen Banter is back. This week, Russ and I discuss Adam Dunn and milestones.
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The Rangers and Nationals flip back this week and the Cardinals make a jump after taking 2 of 3 from the Reds; on the flip side, the Astros are still at the bottom.
Like aways, these power rankings take into account record, run differential, and farm system; record weighs the most in the score and the farm system weighs the least.
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve heard a lot about Stephen Strasburg and the impending decision to shut him down. It’s been mostly negative, but should it be?
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Back to back weeks of the Top 5, but we do have a new team at the #29 spot. That means the Twins are at their highest since week 1.
The power rankings take into account record, run differential, and farm system. Record carries the most weight and farm system carries the least.
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While the Washington Nationals are atop the rankings, will they be able to maintain it? Ace Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to be shut down with 3 starts remaining in the season, plus the post-season. While they have solid pitching behind him, it would scare teams more seeing him in a Game 1 (and potentially Game 5) of a series than Gio Gonzalez or Jordan Zimmerman. This should be an interesting pennant race.
The power rankings are composed from weighed scores of Record, Run Differential, and Farm System. The record carries the most weight while the farm system carries the least.
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Here is the first full GM score table; this will be the new format (at least until I get another way to improve them). I’m going to do this for all active GMs with all of their moves and the WAR they produced. This will be updated after each season. Eventually I’ll be adding scores for each GM to be able to compare them to other GMs. First up is Jeff Luhnow of the Astros.
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