JAL’s The Syncopated Clock Morning Links

The Syncopated Clock Rosemary Clooney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvd2ItdtMk

MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

4 BFFL’s Pirates Stats Spreadsheet and Prediction Contest

First link is to new 2017 sheets but no data yet while second link is to 2016 data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wMRQrWaQaLQvSs502k6qTzds_6JOlKjzNeaUNLtNLyc/edit#gid=0

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zg6X5VUHUBW_0QTsTMLdNcgTYSq-hZIKvzLFmhwPjU/edit#gid=775822168

5 Retrosheet

http://www.retrosheet.org

6 Rumbunter

Recapping the 2017 Altoona Curve Season

https://rumbunter.com/2017/09/29/recapping-2017-altoona-curve-season/

7 Viva El Birdos</b>

Late Rally Falls Short, Cards Fall to Brewers

https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2017/9/30/16389122/third-place-city

8 Green Weenie

Bucs Go Quietly Into the Night 6-1

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2017/09/bucs-go-quietly-into-night-6-1.html

9 Red Reporter

Joey Votto reaches 100 RBI on the season, comment sections begin to implode

https://www.redreporter.com/2017/9/29/16377932/joey-votto-100-rbi-season

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Cubs 5, Reds 4: Another Happ-enstance

https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2017/9/29/16388208/cubs-reds-recap-ian-happ-jose-quintana-mlb-scores

11 Pirates Breakdown

Looking back at the best 2017 performances for the Altoona Curve

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2017/09/29/altoona-curve-best-performances/

12 101 Sports

Don’t Lower the Standards: When the Cards Fail To Make the Playoffs, It Isn’t a Good Year.

https://www.101sports.com/2017/09/29/dont-lower-standards-cards-fail-make-playoffs-isnt-good-year/

13 Slate

The Real Moneyball Effect: Our Fetishization of Data

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/the_real_moneyball_effect_our_fetishization_of_data.html

14 Minor League Ball

Josh Bell 2017: Projections vs. reality

https://www.minorleagueball.com/2017/9/29/16384780/josh-bell-2017-projections-vs-reality

15 Washington Post

Stephen Strasburg & Co. keep giving Nats fans a reason to believe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/stephen-strasburg-and-co-keep-giving-nats-fans-a-reason-to-believe/2017/09/29/159728a2-a53b-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?utm_term=.8127305a2809

16 St. Louis Post Dispatch</b>

  Bullpens once again will be big factor in the playoffs

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/bullpens-once-again-will-be-big-factor-in-the-playoffs/article_db8ca668-e5a8-5674-9900-e5fea73a9382.html

17 SB Nation

The Cubs basically kept the Cardinals from the postseason by themselves

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/9/29/16384774/cubs-cardinals-mlb-postseason-2017-eliminated-nl-central-wild-card

18 CBS Sports

The year of catcher concussions and MLB's battle to do better with head trauma

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-year-of-catcher-concussions-and-mlbs-battle-to-do-better-with-head-trauma/

19 Fangraphs

The Players KATOH Got Right in 2017

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-players-katoh-got-right-in-2017/

20 Baseball Prospectus</b>

Fandom Interference

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=32881

21 Sports on Earth

9 KEY MLB POSTSEASON QUESTIONS

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/256526546/mlb-2017-postseason-questions