ESPN Article

by Blyleven Curve Ball on Apr 23, 2009 11:44 AM EDT

ESPN's Buster Olney has a nice little article about Jason Jaramillo and the pitching staff. Nothing deep, but nice to see a little coverage from the "world leader" that isn't about small payroll, low attendance, and consecutive losing seasons. It's an Insider article, but the part about Jaramillo comes before the "you must be a member to continue" message.

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4091151&name=olney_buster&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fblog%2findex%3fentryID%3d4091151%26name%3dolney_buster

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Nice article

Also cool that we can read all the pertinent parts before it gets to the insider only portion. Thanks for posting.

by Dignan on Apr 23, 2009 11:56 AM EDT reply actions

Are you sure that's ESPN?

I mean, the guy acutally seems to know something about the Pirates. Hell, he even seems to know something about baseball. Don’t get a lot of that at ESPN. Granted, he probably learned most of the Pirate stuff by reading Dejan, but the bit about McLouth playing deeper was a pretty subtle point, as shallow positioning is one explanation that’s been offered for why Nate shows up so badly in statistical measures.

Btw, word does seem to be out about Dejan. There was the award a while ago, and it seems more and more when national media types want to get up to speed on something with the Bucs, they check Dejan’s writing.

by WTM on Apr 23, 2009 12:17 PM EDT reply actions

Ya saw that this morning

I liked the article and likewise appreciated seeing the pirates talked bout as something other than a punchline. Maybe Dejan can be the next Peter Gammons (who is great don’t get me wrong) then 75% of BBTN can be him talking about Pedro Alvarez’s tweaks to his approach coming back from a stubbed tow or Brad Lincoln is showing wear of the 225+ innings he threw including the postseason

McLouth is The Trouth

by GTrain on Apr 23, 2009 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Olney is usually an idiot

But, this was an excellent article. Olney’s a lot better when he sticks to reporting (like this) instead of analysis. He seems to think McLouth is a good defensive centerfielder despite all the evidence to the contrary, but, other that that, yeah, the article was well written and informative.

by uneasy rider on Apr 24, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions