Info & Stats: Yahoo! Sports Columnist
All Topics: New slide rule | Jose Bautista’s slide | Kansas City Royals | Royals philosophy | Bat flipping | Loves Bryce Harper’s ‘make baseball fun again’ hat | New book: ‘The Arm’ being released yesterday | Tommy John injuries | How hard pitchers throw now |
Apr 6th 2016
Jeff on today’s game: “Old school doesn’t work anymore with replay.”
Feb 18th 2016
All Topics: Spring Training approaching | Financially baseball is very healthy | Local markets | Chicago Cubs spending spree | Cubs being the favorites to win it all | The greatest thing ever if Cubs win the World Series | Los Angeles Dodgers off-season | Dodgers looking ahead more than on 2016 | Clayton Kershaw | Yasiel Puig situation | Puig’s reputation for being an awful person | Puig has the talent | New York Yankees not spending in the off-season | 2018 Free Agent Class | American League | Bryce Harper’s future contract |
Jeff on Major League Baseball: “Financially it’s extremely healthy.”
Oct 9th 2015
All Topics: Houston Astros | Astros winning the AL Wild Card game vs. New York | Colby Rasmus | Rasmus douche comments | Rasmus’ career | Johnny Cueto just being mediocre in Kansas City | Royals have to win Game 2 vs. Houston | Dallas Keuchel looming in Game 3 for KC | Jake Arrieta’s greatness | Thinks the Chicago Cubs can win the World Series this season | Clayton Kershaw’s postseason career | Jonathan Papelbon – Bryce Harper incident
Jeff on Johnny Cueto’s Kansas City stint: “So mediocre.”
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Aug 27th 2015
All Topics: Russell Wilson’s recovery water | Carlos Gomez | Baseball code | American League MVP race | Los Angeles Angels are not that good | Angels playing for a wild card spot | American League being weak | National League | Los Angeles Dodgers | Dodgers series vs. Chicago Cubs coming up | Robot umpires | Strike zone problems |
Jeff on the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West standings: “It’s shocking.”
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July 27th 2015
All Topics: Hall of Fame induction ceremony | Pedro Martinez’s speech | John Smoltz’ speech on Tommy John | Tommy John research | Lower level education on pitching | Velocity | Royals trading for Johnny Cueto | Reds getting 3 good prospects from the Royals | Cole Hamels should have been traded last year | Phillies are playing with fire on Hamels
Jeff on how the Phillies have handled their Cole Hamels trade market: “He should have been traded a year ago.”
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Jun 9th 2015
All Topics: Being a Clevelander | Cavs in the NBA Finals | LeBron James is the best player in the world | Broken bat injuring a fan at Fenway | Bats in baseball | MLB parks needing more safety netting | Rob Manfred | St. Louis losing Adam Wainwright and still excelling | St. Louis doing a great job of drafting pitchers | Houston Astros | Carlos Correa | Talking about the wave with his son
Jeff on Carlos Correa: “He might be the best shortstop in the American League already, and he’s one game in.”
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Apr 28th 2015
All Topics: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim trading Josh Hamilton to Texas | Arte Moreno did not like the fact Hamilton went on a bender Super Bowl weekend | Josh is addict, Moreno knew that when he signed him | The Angeles eating 68 million dollars of the Hamilton deal | How much does Hamilton have left? | Hamilton’s body | Hamilton’s Angels teammates | Hamilton is a polarizing figure in the clubhouse | Kansas City Royals wanting to fight everybody | Tommy John surgery | His book on Tommy John surgery | Youth baseball culture | Kirk Gibson news
Jeff on Josh Hamilton: “One of the most talented baseball players I’ve ever seen.”
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Oct 30th 2014
All Topics: World Series | Madison Bumgarner’s performance | Bumgarner bailing Peavy and Hudson out | Bumgarner pitching on two days rest | Kansas City players giving Bumgarner props | The return of Alex Rodriguez | Looking forward to A-Rod’s shenanigans | Rod’s incentive
Jeff on if he’s ever witnessed anything like Madison Bumgarner’s World Series performance: “No.”
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Oct 16th 2014
All Topics: Covering the Kansas City Royals a decade ago | Saw a lot of awful baseball in Kansas City back in the day | The 2014 Kansas City Royals | Jose Lima | Covering Lima | Lima’s personality | Lima giving him his first Major League chewing out | The Kansas City Royals spent money back in the day | The last 20 years of Royals baseball | Major League Baseball’s economic structure | Ned Yost | Being critical of Yost in the past | Yost has done a brilliant job this postseason |
Jeff on the job Ned Yost’s done this postseason: “Brilliant.”
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July 16th 2014
All Topics: Wainwright’s comments last night | Jeter’s final All Star Game | Changing All Star Game rule | New face of baseball | Thoughts on Puig around the league | Tanaka’s torn UCL
Jeff on changing the All Star Game determining home field in the World Series: “The score doesn’t matter. The moments matter.”
Jeff Passan
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May 14th 2014
All Topics: Baseball’s elbow surgery epidemic | Tommy John surgery is becoming a young man’s injury | Tommy John surgery only lasts so long | Arm mechanics | Year round baseball | Front office people are freaking out about the Tommy John epidemic | The second time around for Tommy John | Daniel Hudson’s story | Todd Coffey’s story
Jeff talks about the Tommy John epidemic in Major League Baseball.
Jeff Passan
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Feb 13th 2014
All Topics: Live from Sochi Olympics | Having a lot of fun in Sochi | Covering snowboarders has been the greatest thing ever | Kaitlyn Farrington article | Farrington’s journey to gold | Russia’s Alexey Sobolev wearing a helmet with his cell phone number on it | Shaun White’s performance in the half pipe | Backlash inside the snowboarding community towards White | Danny Davis’ crackback at White | Snowboarders dislike of White | Climate in Sochi | Sochi is a horrible place for the Winter Olympics | Vladimir Putin lined the IOC’s pockets with money | Derek Jeter’s final season |
Jeff on covering snowboarders at the Olympics: “Like the greatest thing ever.”
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Oct 10th 2013
All Topics: Adam Wainwright was incredible in Game 5 of the NLDS vs. Pittsburgh | Wainwright sprinting out for the 9th inning | David Freese hasn’t been good this year | Freese in the postseason throughout his career | Do clutch players really exist? | Pittsburgh Pirates future | Pirates farm system is really good | Dodgers $220 million pay roll | Cardinals pay | Different philosophies in baseball | Cardinals Draft and develop philosophy | Yasiel Puig | Puig can be act like an idiot and still be tolerated | Don Mattingly
Jeff on David Freese: “He tends to kick ass in October.”
Jeff Passan
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July 24th 2013
The Yahoo columnist on Alex Rodriguez’s possibly suspension by MLB over the Biogenesis scandal: “I would be shocked if its less than 100 games.”
Jeff Passan
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July 2nd 2013
All Topics: Yasiel Puig | Puig shouldn’t even be in Majors right now | Puig was so good in Spring Training | Puig’s first month in the majors | A year ago Puig was caught fleeing Cuba | Puig not talking about his past | Puig was determined to get to America | Scouts going to Mexico to scout Puig | Scouts thought Puig looked like garbage | Puig hadn’t played baseball for a year before scouts saw him | The Los Angeles Dodgers signing Puig | Dodgers Logan White saw something in Puig | Puig could be a threat this year for National League MVP if the Dodgers get back in the race | Dodgers are a threat to win the NL West |
Jeff on rookie Yasiel Puig: “He could be a threat this year for National League MVP if the Dodgers get back in the race.”
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June 5th 2013
All Topics: MLB’s latest drug scandal | This Miami scandal being worse than BALCO | 20 players who have allegedly used PED’s through Tony Bosch | Bosch’s credibility | Money in baseball | You can’t fix the steroid problem | Stricter suspensions for drug users | Melky Cabrera’s fake website | Reward vs. Risk | Ryan Braun | MLB reportedly trying to suspend Braun and Alex Rodriguez for 100 games | A-Rod’s future | Explains why big time athletes go to people like Bosch | Being lazy with their drug use | The difference in making the Hall of Fame could be good drug dealers vs. bad drug dealers | MLB Union Boss Michael Weiner | Yasiel Puig’s first two games in the big leagues | Puig is a monster |
Jeff on the Biogenesis clinic PED scandal in Miami: “I think it’s worse than BALCO.”
Jeff Passan
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Aug 15, 2012:
Jeff on if the Red Sox fired Bobby Valentine: “I don’t think the majority of that clubhouse would be weeping.
Jeff Passan
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Jul 31, 2012:
Jeff on the Dodgers recent trades: “Ned Colletti has thrown all his chips in.”
Jeff Passan
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Feb 24, 2012:
Jeff on Ryan Braun’s legal strategy against his positive PED’s sample: “He fought the process not the test.”
Jeff Passan
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Oct 21, 2011:
Jeff on “Money Ball”: “I thought that movie sucked.”
Jeff Passan
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Jul 05, 2011:
Jeff on the winner of the All Star game determining Home field advantage in the World Series: “It’s stupid.”
Jeff Passan
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Apr 12, 2011:
Jeff on asked about Derek Jeter’s struggles this season: “Frankly, he had the look of a shot fighter last year.”
Jeff Passan
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Feb 16, 2011:
Jeff on how much a team would pay Albert Pujols: “The benchmark is 27 ½ million dollars a year.”
Jeff Passan
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Dec 09, 2010:
Jeff on Carl Crawford’s signing in Boston: “10 years ago you would not see a black ballplayer sign for 7 years with the Boston Red Sox.”
Jeff Passan
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