Category: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites

I’m a bit of a Google Earth buff.  It’s a neat program.  If you haven’t checked it out, it’s a free download. 

Of course, I’ve viewed a few of my favorite baseball parks from above.  It’s amazing how close you can view the stadiums. 

But the web site From the Gonzo has gone further.  They’ve taken images of pretty much every park and displayed them on their site.  Check it out.  The images are clickable to enlarge.

PNC Park is especially interesting because there is a game going on when the photo was shot.

Ok, before looking, what park is that a photo of?

 

Not much time to write tonight as I just got back in to town but I do want to mention that I’m adding MetsBlog to the BlogRoll.

That’s long overdue since Matt Cerone is one of most prolific bloggers out there and does a fantastic job covering the Mets.

Rumor has it that Matt is going to “quit his day job” and make a living off his blog.

Good luck, Matt!

 

I’ve updated the link to Baseball Musings’ Day by Day Database.  If you haven’t seen it lately, Dave Pinto has made some really nice changes to it over the winter.  It was great before but now… well, you’ll just have to take a look to see what I mean.

Take a look at say, Albert Pujols’ splits for 2005, for example.  The DBD database will spit out the stats by righty/lefty pitcher faced, base situations, out situations, home/away and for each park, by opponents, by months, by lineup slot, by inning, by score difference (i.e. leading by 1 etc.), by pitcher type (starter/reliever).

Wow.

And that’s just the start, the database allows for player comparisons, team splits, current streaks and more.  If you’re a stat freak, it is definitely a great tool. 

Thanks to David Pinto at Baseball Musings for putting the work into this.

 

No, I meant David Pinto.

David maintains Baseball Musings, one of the best baseball blogs out there.  Right now, David is holding a pledge drive.  Unlike most of us, David’s blog is his main source of income so if you use Baseball Musings like I do, make a pledge.

If you don’t read Baseball Musings, you’re missing out.  David aggregates the latest news in baseball interspersed with his analysis and comments.  Very valuable, in my opinion. 

MLB Rumor Clearinghouse is a new blog out there covering the latest news in baseball.  Love his alias… The Cooperstown Kid.

I see they have a link to APBA.  Reminds me, did I get my league stats done this month??

 

Dem Bums is a new Dodger blog out there.  I’ll give you three guesses what color their background is. ;-)

Stop by and say hi.

 

“If an English baseball fan living in France voices an opinion and there’s nobody around to hear it, does he make a sound?”.  That is the tagline of The Baseball Desert.  Worth a look.

He has an interesting analysis of the World Baseball Classic.

 

Black Sox Blog takes “A Look at the Chicago White Sox, Both Past and Present”.

Full of Season Lookbacks, Player Retrospectives as well as stuff happening in the here and now.