Today’s Roto Riteup is being written while the present author enjoys the latest album from The Wonder Years named The Greatest Generation. If any reader enjoys pop punk, then adding The Wonder Years to your music library is essential.
On today’s agenda:
1. The return of Michael Bourn
2. Replacing A.J. Pierzynski
3. Surprising starts from yesterday
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Happy 31st birthday to Adrian Gonzalez! The present author will always fondly remember Gonzalez for being an amazing keeper following the 2006 season.
On today’s agenda
1. Evan Gattis, outfielder?
2. Tommy Milone: more than a streamer
3. The return of Matt Adams
4. James McDonald to the disabled list
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Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of Kerry Wood’s 20 strikeout complete game shutout. Looking back on it, Shane Reynolds‘ eight innings of one run, 10 strikeout ball is nothing to sneeze at either. Baseball is great.
On today’s agenda:
1. Andrew Cashner watch
2. Pleasantly suprising two home run days
3. Gavin Floyd out for the year
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The present author must apologize. Yesterday was Star Wars Day and the RotoGraphs readers went uninformed. Of course, a reasonable assumption could be made that a Venn diagram of Star Wars nerds and fantasy baseball nerds would overlap significantly, but the author digresses.
On today’s agenda:
1. Hanley Ramirez back to the disabled list
2. The return of Didi Gregorius
3. Michael Saunders‘ two home runs day
4. Alex Avila alert (and alliteration)
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In a mere 22 days, Arrested Development will make a triumphant return. In the mean time, the Arrested Development documentary that was released yesterday should be able to hold you over.
On today’s agenda:
1. Neil Walker to the disabled list
2. Drew Stubbs is hitting
3. The return of Jhoulys Chacin
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Today is Space Day! As a young lad, the present author fondly remembers a family trip to the Kennedy Space Center (as well as Disney World) back in the mid 1990’s. With the Curiosity rover is still exploring Mars, NASA and space exploration in general is always good to hear. As Bill Nye famously said: “science rules!”
On today’s agenda:
1. Yuniesky Betancourt to first base
2. The return of Aramis Ramirez
3. Ryan Zimmerman returns, Anthony Rendon sent down
4. Another Justin Grimm quality start
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There is still over 80% of the 2013 baseball season yet to be played. With that friendly reminder in hand, this is the 2013 AL OF rankings update. We’ll be ranking the outfielders in descending order in tiers, and to have some fun with it, we’ll be using Windows operating systems to separate the different tiers.
Windows XP
Mike Trout
Yoenis Cespedes
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It is no small secret that the present author is an Oakland Athletics fan. While not a baseball historian by any means — and too young to remember this event and subsequent speech live — on this date 22 year ago, Rickey Henderson became the “greatest of all time.”
On today’s agenda:
1. Andrelton Simmons is coming around
2. Musings on Marco Estrada
3. The Los Angeles Angels swap leadoff hitters
4. Tim Hudson earns win number 200
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On this day 20 years ago, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to everyone. Let that sink in as you read this on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
On today’s agenda:
1. The return of Hanley Ramirez
2. Brandon Beachy watch
3. Wilson Ramos is back
4. Friendly reminder regarding Carlos Ruiz
5. Stephen Strasburg’s forearm tigthness
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Happy Babe Ruth Day! In celebration of the Babe, go watch The Sandlot.
On today’s agenda:
1. The return of Sean Marshall
2. Danny Hultzen’s injury
3. What to make of Kyle Kendrick
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