http://www.metafilter.com/tags/baseball+alexrodriguez Posts tagged with 'baseball' and 'alexrodriguez' at MetaFilter. Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:49:07 -0800 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:49:07 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78967/ARod%2DTook%2DSteroids In 2003, Major League Baseball ran a testing survey to see if they had a steroid problem. <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20031113&content_id=603458&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb">They did</a>, but the names of the 104 players testing positive were kept secret. Today, one of the names was revealed: <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html?eref=T1">Alex Rodriguez</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78967 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:49:07 -0800 alexrodriguez arod baseball mlb steroids Stylus Happenstance http://www.metafilter.com/63535/Hey%2Dbatter%2Dbatter%2Dbatter%2Dbatter%2DSWING The four greatest home run hitters of all-time: <a href="http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-four-greatest-home-run-hitters-of-alltime-a-video-analysis/" title="With Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez approaching career milestones, I thought it would be interesting to match up their swings against two of the all-time greats: Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. The main goal of this article is to demonstrate that despite the fact that these sluggers played in different eras, they share similar swing mechanics.">A video analysis of their swings</a>. The <a href="http://www.swingtraining.net/top10.html" title="Miguel Cabrera. Manny Ramirez. Alfonso Soriano. Bobby Abreu. David Ortiz. A-Rod. Dan Uggla. Vlad Guerrero. Barry Bonds. Ichiro">top ten swings</a> of 2006 and more from <a href="http://www.swingtraining.net/Swing.html" title="[...] what I continually look for are the elements common in human movement that apply to the hitting process. In other words, what are these guys doing?">swingtraining.net</a>. More on the mechanics of crushing baseballs from <a href="http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/the_batters_eye/index.php" title="Looking a bit closer at the video, I started to notice a couple of things (which are also common in other high-level hitters) that allow Jeter to excel in such a wide variety of hitting situations.">The Batter's Eye</a>. The <a href="http://webusers.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/" title="Alan Nathan's compendium of articles and links">Physics of Baseball</a> highlights an academic paper studying "optimum baseball bat swing parameters for maximum range trajectories", or more to the point, "<a href="http://webusers.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/AJP-Nov03.pdf" title="One of the most interesting findings of the authors is that an optimally hit curve ball will travel farther than an optimally hit fastball or knuckleball due to increased lift during flight.">How to Hit Home Runs</a>" <small>(warning, last link is PDF).</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.63535 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:10:27 -0800 alexrodriguez baberuth barrybonds baseball hankaaron homerun physics swing edverb http://www.metafilter.com/60158/The%2DAntiBoos%2DMovement Are you tired of <a href="http://yankees.aolsportsblog.com/2007/02/19/no-more-slumber-parties-for-derek-jeter-and-alex-rodriguez">being against him</a>? Are you tired of expecting him to fail, and standing up to boo when he does so? Are you tired of not <a href="http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t32247.html">feeling good</a> about having <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rodrial01.shtml">Alex Rodriguez</a> play third base for your favorite team? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, <a href="http://www.slower.net/misc/sox/images/yankee_fan.jpg">you</a> are ready. Welcome to <a href="http://www.projecta13.com/index.html">The Movement</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60158 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:02:56 -0800 alexrodriguez antiboos arod baseball themovement yankees one_bean http://www.metafilter.com/4739/ <a href="http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2000/1210/937273.html">Tex. Rangers buy shortstop Rodriguez for $252 million...</a> yikes!! That's way too much money for baseball franchises to be spending, or is it? [via <a href=http://www.stormwerks.com/linked>usr/bin/girl</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.4739 Tue, 12 Dec 2000 05:34:16 -0800 alexrodriguez arod baseball rangers salary Cavatica