Art Howe Leaves Hospital

Former major-league player and manager Art Howe was released from a Houston hospital on Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the coronavirus.

Post-Dispatch

Art Howe In ICU Due To Coronavirus

Art Howe, who managed the Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics and New York Mets after his major league playing career, is hospitalized in intensive care with the coronavirus, Howe confirmed to Houston TV station KPRC 2 on Thursday.

ESPN

Whitey Herzog Likes Tom Lawless In Houston

One of the first calls Tom Lawless made last Monday after it was announced he had been named interim manager of the Houston Astros was to Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog, who managed Lawless on the Cardinals’ championship teams in the mid-1980s.

Post-Dispatch

What Can We Expect From Kolten Wong?

In trading 3B David Freese to the Angels, Cardinals' GM John Mozeliak cleared a starting job for rookie second baseman Kolten Wong.

Bernie Bytes

Managing To Cooperstown

The end of last season marked the end of several World Champion managerial careers. Joe Torre left the divorce mess that is the Dodgers. Bobby Cox said goodbye to Atlanta in the playoffs. Lou Piniella took one look around and saw that the Cubs were a disaster. And Cito Gaston finally left on his own terms and with a deserved tribute.

The Hardball Times

Expanded Horizons: A Dominican Adventure

Baseball Prospectus

Q&A With Jason Holowaty About 2010 MLB European Academy In Tirrenia

Mister-Baseball talked with Jason Holowaty from MLB International about the recent MLB European Academy in Tirrenia, where some of the best European baseball prospects worked out for a couple of weeks under the guidance of baseball greats like Barry Larkin.

Mister Baseball

Art Howe Leads MLB European Academy, With Lee Smith & Barry Larkin Among The Coaching Staff

The 2010 edition of the MLB European Academy began last week in Tirrenia, Italy with 49 prospects hailing from Europe and Africa. The host nation has the largest contingent of players with 11 representatives.

Baseball de World

Changing Speeds: Retro Game Story - Cardinals & Cubs 6-23-84

It started as an ordinary Saturday afternoon game between a third-place club and a fifth-place club—sure, there were NBC broadcasters there, but not the main announcing team of Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola. They were in Atlanta calling the marquee matchup between Fernando Valenzuela and Pascual Perez, while this game featured a rookie starter looking for his first major league win, and a nondescript veteran with a career 54-57 record.

Baseball Prospectus

Mark Mulder Deserves Better

Few athletes live with more insecurities than pitchers.

Underhand, not overhand, is the natural way to throw a ball. Look at a picture of Roger Clemens or someone else throwing a fastball, and you will see an arm doing something it wasn't designed to do. It's natural that injuries result from throwing thousands of pitches every year at maximum effort.

Chicago Tribune

Clint Hurdle Named Rangers' Hitting Coach

On his first day on the job, Clint Hurdle explained his philosophy and approach to hitting.

Rangers Official Site

Managerial Differentials

As some readers may have noticed, for the last two years or so, my "about the author" blurb at the bottom of my columns notes that I've been contracted to write a book for McFarland titled, Evaluating Baseball's Managers, which should come out later this year.

The Hardball Times

On The Beat: Mid-Week Roundup

Baseball Prospectus

The Clint Hurdle Era

Late last month, the Colorado Rockies fired Clint Hurdle, after helming the club for a franchise record 1,159 regular season games. In fact, he had the longest reign any skipper has ever had with any of the 1990s expansion franchises. Heck, he lasted more games than any Royals, Astros, or Mets managers. Ultimately, Hurdle's tenure was the 53rd longest lasting ever.

The Hardball Times

Backstopping & Roaming Wide (Part Three: 1970-2008)

In this series we identify and profile those rare major league ballplayers who've performed both as catchers and as shortstops, second basemen or center fielders. In our first installment, we tracked them from the 1890s to the 1930s, and last time we proceeded to right around 1970. This time we'll bring ourselves up to the present day.

The Hardball Times

Art Howe Playing Role In Moneyball Movie

That season will be celebrated on the big screen in 2011, when Steven Soderbergh's "Moneyball" movie is released - with Brad Pitt playing Oakland general manager Billy Beane but many of the other principals playing themselves. Former Oakland manager Art Howe is on board, as are pitching coach Rick Peterson, several scouts, ex-scouting director Grady Fuson and first baseman Scott Hatteberg.

SF Gate

From In The Lineup To Writing The Lineup

There comes a time in every big league player's life, whether it's voluntary or forced, that he has to hang 'em up, so to speak.

MLB