Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
With today's game cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow evening, I will be joining the Pinstriped Bible's Steven Goldman and the Futility Infielder's Jay Jaffe at Coliseum Books today at 6:00 to promote the new Baseball Prospectus book Mind Game. I made a small contribution to the book and thus will be appearing as a co-author, my first in-store appearance!
Anyone in the NYC area with some extra time on his or her hands this evening, please come out and say "hi." Coliseum Books is at 11 West 42nd Street in Manhattan (between 5th and 6th).
someday i'll buy you guys a beer.
Every once and a while I hear some espn analyst solemnly intone that "Johnson was telegraphing his pitches." I find it hard to believe and wonder if you would know what they mean and how something like that could manifest itself without the Yankees being aware of it as well.
Best of luck with the book. The subtitle is a bit too much.
But one of their talking hairdoes said that this stuff has followed RJ around for years. That under pressure especially, he telegraphs his pitches. Something to do with his grip. They can tell what pitch he's going to throw by the way he grips the ball. He hides his left hand with his glove, but as he shifts his grip, it spreads the glove and the batter can spot that.
I don't know if that's true, but it sure seemed like the Halos knew what was coming.
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