Latest Leaders – April 2013
The first month of the 2013 season is in the books, and there’s been plenty of great writing here in the MLB.com Blogs community. We’re excited to announce the addition of a fourth category to our monthly traffic rankings: MiLB Pro. It’s also great to see fans connecting with the new player blogs that have debuted this spring, with Project Lomo, Eric Sogard’s Glasses, The Spread (Josh Spence) and Walking with a Swagerty all featuring in this month’s Leaders. Good to see our friend Alyssa Milano back in the leaders. Maybe you’re right on the cusp of joining these blogs like The Best Sox Blog and Rox Addict, or perhaps like Baseball’s 28th Out, TheBaseballPHD and The Take: From 20th & Blake you’re new around these parts. If you don’t have a blog yet, get started today and begin your journey to becoming a Latest Leader! It’s the biggest baseball blogging community with a gateway of billions of MLB.com and club page views, and brought to you by tech powerhouses MLB Advanced Media and WordPress.com, so be part of it.
Latest Leaders ranked by page views from Apr. 1-30:
MLB PRO
John & Cait sit first in their division just as the Brewers are getting healthy…
1. John & Cait…Plus Nine
2. Baseball Nerd (Keith Olbermann)
3. Better Off Red
4. MLB.com Fantasy 411
5. Curly W Live
6. Brandon and Brandon (Belt and Crawford)
7. SF Giants Photos
8. Dodgers Photog Blog
9. From the Corner of Edgar & Dave
10. TribeVibe
11. Cubs Vine Line Blog
12. White Shark (Gregor Blanco)
13. So I Married A Baseball Player… (Dallas Latos)
14. Around the Horn in KC
15. MLB.com Blogs Central (lol – 96 months and counting without being No. 1)
16. MURRAY COOK’S FIELD & BALLPARK BLOG
17. Phillies Insider
18. Inside the White Sox
19. Our Game (John Thorn)
20. Eric Sogard’s Glasses
21. Cooperstown Chatter
22. CastroTurf
23. Newberg Report
24. Justice4U (Richard Justice)
25. MLB Urban Youth Academy – Compton, CA
26. Comerica Park, 48201
27. Wild Things (Mitch Williams)
28. Clubhouse Confidential (A’s PR man Bob Rose)
29. Monarchs to Grays to Crawfords (Official Negro Leagues Museum Blog)
30. Obviously, You’re Not a Golfer (Matthew Leach)
31. Rays Radio
32. Homestand Blog by Yankees Magazine
33. The Cutoff Man
34. Roof Report
35. *touch* ‘em all (Alyssa Milano)
36. Beyond the Ballpark
37. Padres hispanos
38. Braves Give
39. From the Booth with Steve Stewart
40. Desde el Desierto
41. Diamond Dollar$
42. Dodgers History
43. Indians Off the Field
44. Step up to B.A.T.
45. A Twinternal Perspective
46. A’s Ticket Services
47. Project Lomo (Logan Morrison)
48. Fenway the Dog
49. BTF Today
50. Baseball with Matt
MiLB PRO
Ben forever has bragging rights after topping the inaugural MiLB Pro rankings…
1. Ben’s Biz Blog
2. MiLB.com’s PROSPECTive Blog
3. The Dash Board
4. Rattler Radio
5. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful (Jonathan Mayo)
6. Salem Sox Talk
7. Inside the Jackson Generals
8. Walking with a Swagerty
9. 45 Miles From Fenway
10. ‘Riders Insider Blog
11. Porcupines in Pinstripes
12. It’s All Relative
13. Inside the San Jose Giants
14. Unlocking the Keys
15. M-Braves Clubhouse Report
16. Playing In Peoria
17. Rollin’ with Rick
18. Socci On The Sox
19. My Serendipitous Life as a Baseball Wife
20. Inside the Clubhouse with Mike Antonellis
21. Hook, Line, and Sinker
22. On the Mike with Mike Safford (Voice of the Boise Hawks)
23. The Sprouting News
24. Docking With the Ports
25. Chirp Chatter
26. ‘Cats Corner
27. Not Just Baseball…Aceball
28. The Tune-Up Blog
29. The Inside Pitch
30. The G-Blog
31. Knight Fever
32. From the Nest
33. CurveBall Blog
34. Yard Work
35. Inside the Chiefs
36. Intimidating Insight
37. Colorado Springs Sky Sox Official Team Blog
38. Express Tracks
39. Barons Beat
40. Portland Sea Dogs Promotions
41. Staten Island Yankees
42. Bill On Baseball
43. Sound Bytes Blog
44. The Spread
45. Delmarva Shorebirds Blog
46. B-Mets Buzz with Tim Heiman
47. Bird Droppings
48. MiLB Snap Shots
49. Hawk’s Eye: View From The Booth
50. Indy Baseball Chatter
FANS
Catch two home runs in one game and look what happens to your blog traffic…
1. The Baseball Collector
2. Rays Renegade
3. 7000 Coliseum Way
4. CardinalsFarm
5. The AustralianBaseballDigest
6. The Brewer Nation
7. A’s Farm
8. Cook & Sons’ Baseball Adventures
9. Three Up, Three Down
10. Beisbol 007
11. The Unbiased MLB Fan
12. mlbblogger
13. Pinstripe Birthdays
14. Born on Third
15. The Ballpark Guide
16. La Pagina de Tony Menendez
17. Ballparks on a Budget
18. Dodger Blue World
19. The Baseball Haven
20. Rockpile Rant
21. Where Everyone’s a Giant
22. Observing Baseball
23. Minoring In Baseball
24. Formerly Fausto: A Baseball Blog
25. Phillies Phollowers
26. The Blue Jays Dugout
27. Heard It From Hoard
28. Fish Fry
29. TheCutoffMan
30. Rockin’ Redlegs
31. Reds Camps
32. The Rays Rant
33. 9 Inning Know It All
34. Brewers Rumors
35. More Splash Hits
36. BrokeMets
37. baseballqueen
38. Cream City Cables
39. Head First Slide Productions
40. The Angels’ Ace
41. Collection of Baseball
42. The Yankee Dinosaur
43. Why Did My Dad Make Me a Mets Fan?
44. This is a very simple game…
45. The Best MLBlog
46. Battling Bucs
47. Prospects2Pros
48. DYNASTY League Baseball from designer of Pursue the Pennant
49. Talkin’ Rockies
50. The Cub Den
MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
Once again traveling across the continent to bring you the very latest news…
1. Muskat Ramblings
2. Mark My Word
3. Beck’s Blog
4. The Zo Zone
5. Bowman’s Blog
6. Postcards From Elysian Fields
7. Mariners Musings
8. Bombers Beat
9. By Gosh, It’s Langosch
10. Gonzo and ‘The Show’
11. Britt’s Bird Watch
12. Brew Beat
13. Tag’s Lines
14. Brownie Points
15. Mets Cetera
16. The Fish Pond
17. North of the Border
18. Change for a Nickel
19. Major League Bastian
20. Major Lee-ague
Reminder: Blogs only can be tracked for this list if they use an MLB theme. If you switch to a different WordPress.com theme for a day or two during that month, those page views will not be included for these purposes because they cannot be recorded by MLB.com.
Just turned eight and feeling great
Ah, the number eight in baseball. It’s Cal Ripken Jr., Pops Stargell, Gary Carter, Yaz, Joe Morgan, Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey. It’s the original eight franchises in each of the American and National Leagues. It’s an “8″ on your scorecard, a standard fly to center. It’s (19)08, the Year of the Cubs.
It’s the eighth birthday of this MLB.com Blogs community, which just happened Thursday. Feel free to wish us all well.
It seems like forever since I sat here at the MLB.com office on April 18, 2005, and helped Tommy Lasorda get his first entry saved. That post about his friend Jackie Robinson was our first ever, millions ago.
A few hours later, MLB.com resident Draft and prospect expert Jonathan Mayo welcomed you to B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful. D-backs broadcaster Daron Sutton was an original, too.
That same night, our great friend and MLB groundskeeping guru Murray Cook started his blog. Zack Hample started a few days later and his snagging adventures continued when he celebrated our birthday by snagging two home run balls Thursday at Yankee Stadium.
This community blog debuted as “MLBlogosphere” on May 5, 2005, a day after Brooks Robinson started a blog. I explained in the launch post that you could blog here for $4.95 a month (with a 30-day free trial) or $49.95 per year. My how things have changed. You have an incredible WordPress.com dashboard and support now, obviously at no cost, and unlike back then you can go to Settings->Sharing and enable all the social media outlets so any post can be shared and get more viewers.
Some things haven’t changed. It’s still the only place you can use official MLB marks and logos, and you’re covered under our umbrella if you want to use great Getty or AP photos. We still offer the largest gateway for any baseball blogger, as this community is linked from an MLB.com mothership with billions of page views, and we have 100 or so PRO bloggers including seven active players.
More and more are realizing that an MLB.com Blog is the perfect hub for all their social media. The more social outlets you have these days, the more you need one HQ, and you can easily add your Twitter, FB and other widgets here.
Please join me in welcoming Logan Morrison as the seventh one. He started on our birthday. And feel free to help his Project LoMo.
Leading into the Matt Harvey-Stephen Strasburg pitching matchup, Mitch Williams of MLB Network blogged about Harvey and said he is revising his National League Cy Young Award prediction — and going with the Mets’ rookie. Fascinating view worth reading.
The Yankee Dinosaur just celebrated a third birthday around Opening Day.
On June 6, White Sox VP of Communications Scott Reifert will celebrate the eighth birthday of his blog, Inside the White Sox. He paved the way for other sports executives who blog or tweet today. When he started in 2005, no one was doing this. And he does it regularly, so please join him!
We still have the slogan: “MLB.com Official Affiliate, Unofficial Opinions.” You always say what’s on your mind. We will always keep looking for ways to get your blog seen, like monthly MLB.com Blogs Latest Leaders or our Meet the Bloggers video series (let me know here when you’re going to an MLB game), and I hope that relaunch of MLB.com/blogs happens this season.
New bloggers are joining you all the time. Astros Baseball jumped aboard in 2013.
Yes, that’s still me in the profile pic on this community blog. I decided to bag the familiar backwards white cap that’s been there ever since we started MLB.com Blogs all those many years ago. Hope you understand. And my thoughts are with everyone in the Boston area who has been through so much and has shown such strength. I look forward to running for Boston on Sunday.
Feel free to leave a birthday comment right here, y’all. And post about your own blog’s birthday. Happy Birthday to us all.
Mark
Jackie Robinson and what he means to us
Did you know that Jackie Robinson was the subject of the first-ever MLB.com Blogs post in 2005? That only seems appropriate right now.
I’m looking for MLB.com Blog reviews of the following two Jackie productions:
- The movie “42″ once it hits box offices this weekend. If you review it, please leave a comment here with the Permalink, so we can promote a collection of reviews here.
- The same goes for anyone reviewing our amazing new Jackie e-book “Fortitude” in our MLB.com PLAYBALL BOOKS series. My MLB.com story has more details on “Fortitude,” which has a special Foreword from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was literally born into a new world, the day after Jackie’s debut in Brooklyn.
Jackie Robinson Day is Monday, the 66th anniversary of him breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. You are invited to use #Jackie42 on your Instagram pics to be part of the story in the coming days.
If you haven’t noticed it yet, we are honored that our friends at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City have chosen MLB.com Blogs as its official blogging community. Be sure to follow Monarchs to Grays to Crawfords and look for Dave Barr’s posts there, including an outstanding interview with Mariners broadcaster Dave Sims. They’ll have ongoing live content through Jackie Robinson Day, and best of all is knowing they will be blogging here after April 15, to keep the conversation going.
Why is this so important?
It was obvious to those of us who attended the Jackie Robinson Foundation Dinner last month in New York. Thomas Tull, head of the Legendary Entertainment film company that is bringing his legacy back to life in a movie now, told the story of how he had spoken recently to Ken Griffey Jr. Griffey told him that he had done a baseball clinic with inner-city kids, and he asked the youths if they knew who Jackie Robinson was. When few kids spoke up, Griffey was alarmed. It became the mission of the “42″ creators that they reach everyone with the story of Jackie. “That can’t happen,” Tull said. Your reviews only can help.
In case you missed the rankings of the most popular blogs here, see the MLB.com Blogs Latest Leaders for March. Hope you make the April list! Leaving comments here with your full URL is a great way to get there…
Latest Leaders – March 2013
Now that this season is under way, please join us in welcoming the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum’s official blog Monarchs to Grays to Crawfords into our community — only days before the much-anticipated release of the Jackie Robinson movie “42.” And that’s just a start. Other newcomers include players like Eric Sogard (Athletics), Josh Spence (Yankees) and Jordan Swagerty (Cardinals); Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox broadcaster Bob Socci; Bob Wirz, former chief spokesman for Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Peter Ueberroth; and rookie fan blogs like CubsSince1908, Talkin’ Rockies, MLB-The Casual Fan and Reds All About It. Start blogging today at MLB.com/blogs, the collaboration of Major League Baseball Advanced Media and WordPress.com (biggest gateway to any baseball blogs in existence) and see if you can join these most popular MLB.com Blogs below!
Latest Leaders ranked by page views from Mar. 1-31:
MLB PRO
Proof that one viral Harlem Shake video can make all the difference…
1. TribeVibe
2. Dodgers Photog Blog
3. From the Corner of Edgar & Dave
4. MLB.com Fantasy 411
5. Ben’s Biz Blog
6. Better Off Red
7. Baseball Nerd (Keith Olbermann)
8. Curly W Live
9. SF Giants Photos
10. John & Cait…Plus Nine
11. Brandon and Brandon (Belt and Crawford)
12. MiLB.com’s PROSPECTive Blog
13. Inside the White Sox
14. Phillies Insider
15. Cubs Vine Line Blog
16. MLB.com Blogs Central (lol)
17. MURRAY COOK’S FIELD & BALLPARK BLOG
18. Our Game (John Thorn)
19. Walking with a Swagerty
20. Alyson’s Footnotes
21. Around the Horn in KC
22. So I Married A Baseball Player… (Dallas Latos)
23. Rattler Radio
24. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful (Jonathan Mayo)
25. Inside the San Jose Giants
26. Newberg Report
27. CastroTurf
28. Unlocking the Keys
29. Cooperstown Chatter
30. Eric Sogard’s Glasses
31. Porcupines in Pinstripes
32. White Shark (Gregor Blanco)
33. Welcome to Third and King
34. The Dash Board
35. 45 Miles From Fenway
36. Obviously, You’re Not a Golfer
37. Clubhouse Confidential
38. MLB Urban Youth Academy – Compton, CA
39. Justice4U
40. Inside the Jackson Generals
41. It’s All Relative
42. Rays Radio
43. Wild Things (Mitch Williams)
44. The Inside Pitch
45. X-Country Drive-a-Thon
46. ‘Riders Insider Blog
47. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls
48. Yard Work
49. Homestand Blog by Yankees Magazine
50. Inside the Clubhouse with Mike Antonellis
FANS
Cardinals Farm looks like a phenom on the rise…
1. Rays Renegade
2. The Baseball Collector
3. The Brewer Nation
4. The AustralianBaseballDigest
5. A’s Farm
6. CardinalsFarm
7. The Unbiased MLB Fan
8. mlbblogger
9. Beisbol 007
10. Cook & Sons’ Baseball Adventures
11. Pinstripe Birthdays
12. The Baseball Haven
13. La Pagina de Tony Menendez
14. Rockpile Rant
15. Ballparks on a Budget
16. 9 Inning Know It All
17. Dodger Blue World
18. Minoring In Baseball
19. The Ballpark Guide
20. BrokeMets
21. Phillies Phollowers
22. Major-League Obie Role-Based Projection System
23. Born on Third
24. The Rays Rant
25. Heard It From Hoard
26. TheCutoffMan
27. Brewers Rumors
28. Observing Baseball
29. Where Everyone’s a Giant
30. Battling Bucs
31. 7000 Coliseum Way
32. Rockin’ Redlegs
33. eltubeyero22
34. Bjarkman’s Latino and Cuban League Baseball History Page
35. Three Up, Three Down
36. The Blue Jays Dugout
37. The Angels’ Ace
38. Cream City Cables
39. Blogging ‘Bout Baseball
40. The Best MLBlog
41. A Piece of The Game
42. Formerly Fausto: A Baseball Blog
43. Fish Fry
44. The Yankee Dinosaur
45. You’re Killin’ Me, Smalls!
46. Resumen De La MLB
47. The Cub Den
48. This is a very simple game…
49. More Splash Hits
50. BLOGGIN’ IN L.A.
MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
They’re just glad to be done with Spring Training…
1. Muskat Ramblings
2. Mark My Word
3. Beck’s Blog
4. The Zo Zone
5. By Gosh, It’s Langosch
6. Bowman’s Blog
7. Bombers Beat
8. Postcards From Elysian Fields
9. Mariners Musings
10. Britt’s Bird Watch
11. Gonzo and ‘The Show’
12. Tag’s Lines
13. Bollinger Beat
14. Brew Beat
15. North of the Border
16. Brownie Points
17. Change for a Nickel
18. Mets Cetera
19. Major League Bastian
20. The Fish Pond
And say hi to The Phillies Girl, who’s dealing with Roy Halladay’s rough first outing…
Reminder: Blogs only can be tracked for this list if they use an MLB theme. If you switch to a different WordPress.com theme for a day or two during that month, those page views will not be included for these purposes because they cannot be recorded by MLB.com.
RETIRING, GARAGIOLA NO ORDINARY JOE
“Kennedy was, whether for good or bad, an enormously large figure,” Theodore H. White wrote of America’s first Catholic president. “Historically, he was a gate-keeper. He unlatched the gate and through the door marched Catholics, blacks, and Jews, and ethnics, women, youth, academics, newspersons, and an entirely new breed of politician.”
Joe Garagiola, 87, an exceedingly large baseball figure, recently retired after 58 years behind the mike, including the last 18 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
People you meet on the way to Opening Day
Major League Baseball games are real starting a week from this weekend, and the MLB.com Blogs community is steamrolling toward its eighth birthday by featuring a lot of newcomers of note.
Jaye Maddon, wife of Rays manager Joe Maddon, is focused on two dashboards right now: One to drive across the country for a good cause and one to blog all about it. Join her and her dogs Winston and Athena on the Cross-Country Driveathon and leave lots of comments to keep them company on the way. You can donate a penny per mile to help Pet Pal while you’re at it.
Oakland A’s third baseman Eric Sogard just started blogging, and you’ll love his view: From behind his omnipresent Kaenon glasses. The posts are from Soge, but he will be writing in third person this season, so technically his eyewear is authoring this blog. Read his welcome post and join the commenters.
Imagine you have been drafted by the Cardinals and are making your way up the organizational ladder with your sights set on Busch Stadium somewhere in the near future? That is the path of pitcher Jordan Swagerty, a Redbirds’ 2010 First-Year Player Draft selection, and he just relaunched his MLB.com Blog, Walking with a Swagerty.
And get to know CardinalsFarm, a fan blog created in January and already up to 1,571 followers as of this post. They not only know all about Swagerty, but about everyone on their way to The Show in Redbird Nation.
The last time I saw Gregor Blanco in person, champagne was being dumped on his head and I had to pull him away from some celebrating with Pablo Sandoval to tape a Meet the Bloggers video. Good to see that the White Shark has returned to the MLBlogosphere. Join the Giants outfielder on his blog again for the ride.
While you’re at it, say hi to his teammates, Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford. They have stayed busy at blogging, and we are proud to have them here amongst our own postings.
Don’t miss these posts
Mitch Williams: The MLB Network analyst and former closer just posted his World Baseball Classic entry. Comment him galore.
One Strike Away…Twice!: “Baseball is about accomplishment, setting goals and succeeding.” Get to know this Rangers fan blogger.
Curly W: Nats By The Numbers Bobblehead Trivia Challenge.
Tribevibe: Indians fan correspondent @ClevelandChick gives her top 5 observations from Spring Training in Goodyear.
Around the Horn in KC: Their PR dept blog just posted today on the start of Royals HOF balloting.
Clubhouse Confidential: A’s Director of Public Relations Bob Rose has been posting on the club’s Clubhouse Confidential blog since 2009, and he devotes his latest entry to “shining gems like Shane Peterson, Michael Choice and Addison Russell.”
John & Cait Plus Nine: What’s new at Miller Park?
Visit our PRO BLOGS roster anytime and see what else is new. That is always the most updated list of blogs with these themes, which are made available to members of the MLB Family. More player blogs are on the way, big-leaguers and prospects.
Please be sure to leave comments RIGHT HERE promoting your latest posts, and always include your full URL as an easy link. Do the same on other blogs around this community, and that’s a sure-fire way to be on our monthly MLB.com Blogs Latest Leaders.
Tip: Drag the Twitter and Facebook widgets to your side panel so your blog can serve as a hub for your social media activity, if you haven’t already. It’s an easy way to promote your blog.
Welcoming back BASEBALL GAMES
Hope you guys are having as good a day as I am. This is one of my favorite times, when the first actual games are played between Major League teams for the first time since the World Series. As I wrote yesterday on MLB.com, we have launched our MLB.com At Bat 13 app, so we’re back for a fifth year with the best sports app ever and forever. I’m enjoying a Gameday Audio marathon, making too big a deal about Freddie Freeman registering the first hit of 2013, Tigers breaking their four-game skid vs. MLB opposition, Terry Francona’s new-look Indians overcoming a quick five-run deficit, etc. It just feels good to hear that crack of the bat and to let yourself settle into the flow of a baseball game, instead of just talking about it. Did you know it’s the earliest the KC Royals ever played a first game?
So while I am listening and readying for our first MLB.TV live games this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to surface the most recently updated MLB.com Blogs and give you a look at some bloggers who may be familiar or brand-new to you. In addition to this list below, be sure to get acquainted with our PRO Blogs roster. I appreciate all your recent comments here, and please keep it up, always adding your blog’s full URL so others can easily find you. We’ll be relaunching http://MLB.com/blogs in the near future, TBA.
Latest Updated MLB Blogs
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:04:56 +0000
Not Just Baseball…Aceball
http://mlblogsreno.wordpress.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:04:56 +0000
A Cubs Fan’s Blog
http://cubspain.wordpress.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:01:01 +0000
More Splash Hits
http://moresplashhits.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:59:10 +0000
Inside the White Sox
http://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:57:20 +0000
Dodgers Photog Blog
http://dodgersphotog.mlblogs.com/2013/02/22/22213-something-current-friday-workout-by-jon-soohoola-dodgers/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:49:04 +0000 (See Sandy Koufax pics! Priceless.)
sportssegal
http://sportssegal.wordpress.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:48:18 +0000
By Gosh, It’s Langosch
http://langosch.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:39:36 +0000
Beisbol 007
http://mlblogspiratasblog.wordpress.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:29:24 +0000
The Black N Orange Page
http://theblacknorangepage.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:26:50 +0000
Rollin’ with Rick
http://rickm.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:14:50 +0000
Beyond the Ballpark
http://beyondtheballpark.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:05:01 +0000
Brew Beat
http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:55:47 +0000
Cubs Vine Line Blog
http://vineline.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:54:04 +0000
Mets Cetera
http://dicomo.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:45:12 +0000
Inside the San Jose Giants
http://sjgiants.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:35:45 +0000
MiLB.com’s PROSPECTive Blog
http://milbprospective.wordpress.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:27:23 +0000
Chirp Chatter
http://chirpchatter.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:17:58 +0000
Muskat Ramblings
http://muskat.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:09:34 +0000
Around the Horn in KC
http://royals.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:09:27 +0000
The Zo Zone
http://zozone.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:50:31 +0000
Docking With the Ports
http://theportspost.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:37:06 +0000
Three Up, Three Down
http://3u3d.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:34:25 +0000
Baseball At the Bay
http://baseballatthebay.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:29:39 +0000
Padres hispanos
http://berkutmartin.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:26:59 +0000
Bollinger Beat
http://bollingerbeat.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:11:17 +0000
Tag’s Lines
http://brianmctaggart.mlblogs.com/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:03:55 +0000
Also, check out Mitch Williams’ latest blog post on Kyle Lohse — interesting: http://mitchwilliams.mlblogs.com
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Latest Leaders – January 2013
Baseball is just days away now, and the excitement is building as more and more new blogs are created here on the best blogging platform in the sport. Our first monthly Latest Leaders of 2013 has the usual mix of proven veterans and promising newcomers. The biggest news has to be the Brewers’ John & Cait…Plus Nine dethroning the Hot Stove traffic magnet for the overall top spot, with Jamie Ramsey’s Better Off Red just behind. Evan Vogel cracked the FAN Top 10 in December and now his blog The Baseball Haven is up to No. 5, so watch out there. Carrie Muskat is still in command on the list of MLB.com beat reporters, regardless of the fortunes of the Cubs team she covers. Congratulations to everyone who made the list, and one proven tip to get on the next month’s list is to leave comments on these blogs and include your full URL so they can see your new posts.
Start your own MLB.com Blog today. It’s the first step in joining this list.
Latest Leaders ranked by page views from Jan. 1-31:
MLB PRO
1. John & Cait…Plus Nine
2. Better Off Red
3. Hot Stove
4. Baseball Nerd
5. Curly W Live
6. Dodgers Photog Blog
7. Ben’s Biz Blog
8. MLB.com Blogs Central (lol)
9. Cubs Vine Line Blog
10. SF Giants Photos
11. From the Corner of Edgar & Dave
12. MLB.com Fantasy 411
13. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful
14. MiLB.com’s PROSPECTive Blog
15. MURRAY COOK’S FIELD & BALLPARK BLOG
16. TribeVibe
17. Our Game
18. Around the Horn in KC
19. Alyson’s Footnotes
20. So I Married A Baseball Player…
21. Phillies Insider
22. Cooperstown Chatter
23. 45 Miles From Fenway
24. Cleveland Indians Fantasy Camp
25. Newberg Report
26. MLB Urban Youth Academy – Compton, CA
27. CastroTurf
28. Rattler Radio
29. Justice4U
30. My Serendipitous Life as a Baseball Wife
31. The Dash Board
32. Comerica Park, 48201
33. Wild Things
34. The Sprouting News
35. Jesse Sanchez at the Park
36. Inside the White Sox
37. Baseball Books
38. ‘Riders Insider Blog
39. Inside the San Jose Giants
40. Step up to B.A.T.
41. It’s All Relative
42. Obviously, You’re Not a Golfer
43. Rollin’ with Rick
44. ‘Cats Corner
45. Homestand Blog by Yankees Magazine
46. Mets Fantasy Camp
47. Beyond the Ballpark
48. Diamond Dollar$
49. Not Just Baseball…Aceball
50. Desde el Desierto
FANS
1. Rays Renegade
2. The Baseball Collector
3. The Brewer Nation
4. The AustralianBaseballDigest
5. The Baseball Haven
6. Beisbol 007
7. Cook & Sons’ Baseball Adventures
8. mlbblogger
9. The Unbiased MLB Fan
10. Rockpile Rant
11. A’s Farm
12. Observing Baseball
13. Pinstripe Birthdays
14. Dodger Blue World
15. Phillies Phollowers
16. 9 Inning Know It All
17. La Pagina de Tony Menendez
18. The Ballpark Guide
19. 7000 Coliseum Way
20. Minoring In Baseball
21. Ballparks on a Budget
22. TheCutoffMan
23. BrokeMets
24. A Piece of The Game
25. If You Write It, They Will Come
26. Cream City Cables
27. Born on Third
28. Brewers Rumors
29. Heard It From Hoard
30. Three Up, Three Down
31. Rockin’ Redlegs
32. Where Everyone’s a Giant
33. I’m Not A Headline Guy…
34. eltubeyero22
35. Collection of Baseball
36. The Rays Rant
37. This is a very simple game…
38. Battling Bucs
39. Reds Country
40. Bleacher Boy
41. Rox Addict
42. The Best MLBlog
43. The Angels’ Ace
44. Fish Fry
45. Bjarkman’s Latino and Cuban League Baseball History Page
46. One Strike Away…Twice!
47. Los bigleaguers
48. CardinalsFarm
49. Royal Blues
50. Formerly Fausto: A Baseball Blog
MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. Muskat Ramblings
2. Beck’s Blog
3. The Zo Zone
4. Mark My Word
5. Bombers Beat
6. Postcards From Elysian Fields
7. By Gosh, It’s Langosch
8. Bowman’s Blog
9. Mariners Musings
10. Britt’s Bird Watch
11. Gonzo and ‘The Show’
12. Brew Beat
13. Change for a Nickel
14. Major League Bastian
15. Tag’s Lines
16. North of the Border
17. Brownie Points
18. Mets Cetera
19. The Fish Pond
20. Major Lee-ague
Reminder: Blogs only can be tracked for this list if they use an MLB theme. If you switch to a different WordPress.com theme for a day or two during that month, those page views will not be included for these purposes because they cannot be recorded by MLB.com.
Looking out the window
Just looking out the window and waiting for Spring Training. You?
Everyone is buzzing about the Brothers Upton in Atlanta, an acquisition reported by Mark Bowman. What did you think of the Atlanta-Arizona trade? The Cutoff Man, MiLB.com PROSPECTive, Dugout Ponderings, The Unbiased MLB Fan, Brave Fan in Illinois and The Baseball Haven give you their takes.
Fresh posts are in at Dodgers History, The Brewer Nation, The Rays Rant, MLB Urban Youth Academy, Balls and Strikes, SF Giants Photos, My Serendipitous Life as a Baseball Wife, Minoring in Baseball, Hillsboro Hops, Ben’s Biz Blog and The AustralianBaseballDigest.
Blogger Terry Nelson says on Balls and Strikes that he is “not a winter person.” I agree with you, Terry. For full disclosure, this blogger is wearing warm Cardinals pajamas under his work clothes as this will probably be the coldest night of the year in New York City and I am headed over to Joe Torre’s Safe at Home event tonight at Chelsea Piers, to fire questions at guys like Brian Cashman, Gerry Cooney (!), Hideki Matsui, Tony La Russa, Goose Gossage, Jorge Posada, Tom Coughlin and more. I believe this is the last in a long string of offseason dinners I cover for MLB.com during that wait between World Series clincher and pitchers and catchers reporting.
The most recent dinner story I wrote was the most-shared MLB.com story on Facebook: Yogi Berra’s tribute night at the Baseball Assistance Team’s 24th annual Go to Bat for B.A.T. Fundraiser Dinner. We have since posted the clip of Yogi’s 65-word love letter to his lifelong sport, so I encourage you to embed it on your own blog and share it widely.
Hopefully you already know that you can show MLB.com videos. It’s a great addition to your blog. Just click the gray Embed button on just about any of our videos. (Game footage video has a time delay for embed availability during the season.) Please leave comments here whenever you include MLB.com video embeds within your posts, as I would like to highlight that capability within our community here.
We just introduced mlbpipeline.com — the go-to place for all prospect tracking and Draft analysis year-round, whether you’re looking for your organization’s pipeline talent or prospecting for your Fantasy roster. MLB.com senior writer Jonathan Mayo is our longtime prospect and Draft expert at MLB.com, and in addition to anchoring that, he is posting regularly at B3 – Big, Bald and Beautiful.
Game times for this season were announced today. Where Everyone’s a Giant posted about it, good topic for you to blog about. My MLB.com colleague Jesse Sanchez recently posted a great entry about late author Richard Ben Cramer and how he influenced him. Remember to post your Top 100 banner if you made our 2012 list like Wrigley Regular.
Welcome back to one of our earliest MLB.com Blogs fan posters, Joe Boesch. His latest post on Dugout Diary is a Pete Rose autographed card, check it out. Jamie Ramsey is blogging the Reds Caravan. The MLB.com Fantasy 411 crew is getting spring fever. We found short and sweet words from just-started Let’s Play Ball! Gotta like how Broke Mets is rockin’ the pitchers and catchers countdown clock in its side panel. Leave comments here to let you know you’ve posted something new and don’t forget to include your full URL. We’ll be surfacing MLB.com Blogs in a new way this season, just one thing we have to look forward to looking out the window…
Life from the Press Box
by T.R. Sullivan/MLB.com
Ichiro Suzuki is a great hitter, but he is also the man behind an iron façade. Few know much about him other than the fact he has been a hit machine in his 12 years in the Major Leagues.
Former MLB.com beat reporter and long-time baseball writer Jim Street offers readers insights into the personality of Suzuki -- and other players, coaches, managers and executives -- in his entertaining and recently published memoir, "Life From the Press Box." …
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