Author Archives: Mark Panuthos

So, if you've read my previous column, you may be of the mind that I like top 5 lists – and that would be true. I could even write a column, listing the Top 5 Reasons I Like Top 5 Reasons lists, but Mr. Abruzzese probably wouldn't publish it in BBD as it has much more to ...

So, if I’ve got this straight, the Bombers will be starting the season sans Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson. Call me a pessimist, but shelving 100 homeruns and 341 total runs from a team which lives on the long ball and which finished 18th in Defensive Efficiency Ratio will be disastrous. Perhaps ...

That “boom” you heard on Thursday evening was the bottom falling out of the Yankees franchise.  Make no mistake, if you’re into self-flagellation like I am (did I mention that I’m also a Tampa Bay Bucs fan?) and watched game 4 beyond the fourth inning like I did, what you witnessed was nothing less than ...

A “great” series is one in which the Yankees not only play well, but in which they post a “W”. By that standard, the Yankees had a “great” series against the Orioles.  By just about any other metric, though, their series versus the Birds was, well, bizarre.  The series lasted 52 innings, making it the ...

Sabermetrics convey much useful information to fans and front-office personal everywhere.  For instance, did you know that Robinson Cano’s TaV is .306?  … well, uh…. It is. But as noted Yankees fan Socrates said to his students at the Lyceum around 399 BCE, “not all truth can be quantified by nerdy statistical analysis”.  For your reading ...

I like sports books. Not just any sports books, but sports books written by former athletes.  They are choc-full of interesting word usements.  They read like someone is leaving a really really long and dull answering machine message.  And at least once per book there is a line that you know the ghost writer tried ...