Mike Piazza News

It's a pretty fair crop, to say the least. Shortstops Player H HR RBI AVG SLG Barry Larkin 2340 198 960 .295 .371 .444 12 1 3 47.0 118.0 0 N/A Alan Trammell 2365 185 1003 .285 .352 .415 6 0 4 40.4 119.0 8 17.4% Player EqA RARP RAP FRAA Career Peak JAWS Larkin .291 707 443 60 86.2 53.6 69.9 Trammell .273 584 301 108 78.1 52.8 65.5 AVG HoF SS .274 ...

Click on the photo to see the steroid-implacated Hall of Fame ballot. Dec. 31 is the deadline for the Baseball Writer's Association of America to turn in their votes to decide which players will be inducted into the Class of 2010 Baseball Hall of Fame.

Joe Mauer's 2009 season was one of the best performances by a catcher in baseball history.

Oakland Athletics rookie closer Andrew Bailey, a graduate of Paul VI High in Haddonfield who became one of the American League's top relievers this season, has been named the winner of the Philadelphia Sportswriters Association's Native Son Award.

The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today they will extend general manager Ned Colletti's contract.

The Dodgers have missed Russell Martin's offensive output this season. Martin hit a career-low .250 with just seven homers.

The A's acquired Jason Giambi and Matt Holliday last winter hoping to boost their sagging power numbers from 2008.

Winthrop's baseball team has just started its Fall workouts. For one Eagles pitcher, Matteo D'Angelo, missing a few weeks of baseball with his Winthrop teammates is giving him a chance to pitch for his country in the Baseball World Cup.

The Rays are a very odd statistical team. I pointed out the Carlos Pena home run vs.

Bill Madlock walked into Arlington Stadium in autumn of 1973 as a fresh-faced September call-up for the last-place Rangers.

The great Hall of Fame baseball writer Tracy Ringsolby tells me that the expectation is that Giambi will go to Colorado's Triple-A Colorado Springs team to get some at-bats - reuniting Giambi with former A's coach Rene Lachemann, who might have even more personality than Giambi.

The great Hall of Fame baseball writer Tracy Ringsolby tells me that the expectation is that Giambi will go to Colorado's Triple-A Colorado Springs team to get some at-bats - reuniting Giambi with former A's coach Rene Lachemann, who might have even more personality than Giambi.

Sometimes it's about hitting .193, and slugging .364, and the .697 OPS, and the 40 RBIs as a cleanup hitter, and being 38, and being injured.

Sometimes it's about hitting .193, and slugging .364, and the .697 OPS, and the 40 RBIs as a cleanup hitter, and being 38, and being injured.

Now that Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice, Joe Gordon and Nick Peters have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, let's look at a few of the future ballots.

Before Derek Jeter started hitting major league home runs, he played in 1995 Triple-A All-Star game.

Two years earlier, Roger Clemens, who had hit Mike Piazza in the head a few months earlier, insanely threw a broken bat toward the Mets catcher during the 2000 World Series.