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Hopeless Joe’s Spring Training Adventure
Hey, Hopeless Joe here. I am writing this from sunny Orlando, Florida, where I have come for a little spring training getaway. It’s spring, it’s warm, everything’s going great (except for my pesky...
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Hopeless Joe Eats at Shake Shack
…so I was hungry, you know. It’s hard to maintain this calorie-restricted diet my doctor has me on, telling me it’ll help me live forever, as if however long my life would otherwise be isn’t long...
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Hopeless Joe Discusses the Jon Singleton Deal
So, Jon Singleton just guaranteed himself $10 million over the next five seasons— and a call-up to the majors– in exchange for giving the Astros an extra year before he hits free agency, and locking...
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Hopeless Joe Apologizes for Picking the Padres to Win the Wild Card
You may recall FanGraphs’s pre-season staff predictions. Though I, Hopeless Joe, am not officially a member of the staff, Mr. Blachman only follows what players do on Twitter and on his fantasy...
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Hopeless Joe’s All-Star Ballot (AL)
FIRST BASE: Nick Swisher Also Considered: Daric Barton, Prince Fielder Tough battle here between the injured and the remarkably ineffective, but the All-Star slot should go to the player who has been...
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Hopeless Joe’s All-Star Ballot (NL)
FIRST BASE: Joey Votto Also Considered: Yonder Alonso, Ryan Howard First base on the NL All-Star Ballot is weird this year, almost as weird as the growth on my foot. No one on the ballot has been as...
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Hopeless Joe Reacts to the End of NotGraphs
Well, everything ends, eventually. Especially when I’m involved. Remember Friendster? Yep, I killed it. That was me. Tried to make a few friends, people complained to the site — who would want to be...
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Hopeless Joe’s 2014 Trade Deadline Reaction Roundup
The Jon Lester Trade: “First Yoenis Cespedes gets to leave Cuba, then he gets to leave Oakland. At this rate of quality-of-living advancement, he’ll be in Denmark by the end of the month, or at least...
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Hopeless Joe Predicts The Pennant Races (American League)
It’s just about that time of year, when teams start calling it quits, Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder starts to rear its droopy head, and glum Internet baseball columnists are forced to turn to...
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Hopeless Joe Predicts the Pennant Races (National League)
I was basking in the glory of my almost fully-funded campaign to keep on writing after NotGraphs is gone when I was reminded that I never wrote the second part of my Pennant Race preview. It’s so easy...
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