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Geoff Jenkins Loves Small Sample Sizes

By Pat LackeyMar 3rd 2007 – 4:32PM

If you've been paying attention to Brewers camp this season, you're probably familiar with the Geoff Jenkins saga. If you're new to the story, I'll recap. Jenkins more or less told the Brewers to give him the starting job in right field or trade him. The problem is that Jenkins is pretty much a platoon player for any team...

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  • 04/26/12 Twenty Games In: Arizona's Minor-League Affiliates &... Source: AZ Snakepit We're a few solid weeks into the 2012 season, and as a supplement to my daily Farm Round-Ups, I've decided to put together a quick write-up of the surprises and disappointments - or as much as a prospect can be either of those things through twenty games - in Arizona's system from the early part of the minor-league season.
  • 03/30/12 National League pennant race wide open Source: ABC - WMAR 2 - Baltimore MD In the perennial "Which league is better?" debate, the National League has some small-sample-sized bragging rights.
  • 09/09/11 NFL 2011: The Packers and Saints stage a ridiculously... Source: Slate This week's preseason NFL roundtable is the first part of a season-long partnership between Slate and Deadspin.
  • 08/18/11 Wishful Thinking: Arizona Should Call Up Trevor Bauer Source: FanGraphs With Wade Miley up to take the injured Jason Marquis' spot in the starting rotation — and veterans Zach Duke and Micah Owings in the bullpen — the Diamondbacks should move Trevor Bauer to the major leagues.
  • 08/10/11 Sullivan finds that Source: The Daily Fix - The Wall Street Journal A week ago, inspired by a shutout inning of relief work from outfielder Mitch Maier , I was inspired to write this piece about the recent success of position players on the mound.

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