Favorite Baseball Writers

I honestly don’t know how the guy maintains employment. I seriously think he’s some sort of hate buffer that absorbs most of the criticism and negative comments, to make all other baseball writers on the SI staff, as well as baseball writers everywhere else seem that much more talented. He’s the fat-friend wingman for baseball writers everywhere.

He may be a little biased, but I still like Tom Verducci’s writing style. He’s not nearly as big of a reporter as much he used to be, but he still has perspectives towards the game that seem more like his own than rhetoric. I don’t get SI anymore, but I was a big fan of John Donovan, as well. As biased as many mainstream writers seem to be to the NY/BOS hype machine, it was always nice to see a guy like Donovan who always, really showed appreciation and I guess, his own bias, towards the Atlanta Braves, and most notably the Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz era.

But overall, I’m going to have to say my favorite baseball writer these days is Joe Posnanski. He combines wit and statistical analysis into his columns, which are easy to read, and not at all laborious, even when he delves into the numbers.

Furman Bisher…who else?

Also, Joe Morgan is pretty good.

I like Joe Posnanski, Rob Neyer, Keith Law, Bill James, everyone at THT, everyone at BA, MGL, Tango, and the Fangraphs crew. And Mark Bradley (even if he’s mostly clueless).

I dislike Peter Gammons, Jason Stark, Tom Verducci, Jon Heyman, Ken Rosenthal, all of the BPro crew, and many more that I won’t take time to list.

As far as the beat writers go, I don’t mind either one but I’m not a huge fan of either one, either. O’Brien is the superior writer, but he doesn’t have the inside track as much as Bowman and he’s really sensitive. Kind of a bitch, honestly. Bowman is basically an organizational mouth, just reports whatever Schuerholz and Wren tell him to.

Gondee.

KLaw – he’s probably my favorite, even tho he can be an asshole lol.

Gammons – Gotta respect the guy; it’s nice that he’s calmed down on all the Redsox writing the past few years.

Joe Posnanski – Easily the best non-ESPN writer and im kinda surprised they haven’t tried to pay him $$$ to come over to ESPN.

Jim Callis/The BA writers – thats the best site for all things prospects.

Dislikes:
Rob Neyer: I saw some of you like him, but I feel like he just states the obvious a lot of the time in his articles. Not to mention he gets way off-track in his chats and some of his articles.

Ken Rosenthal- Manny to the Twins! Clemens back to New York! Pujols to Boston! Hudson to become a FA! *2 days later: Manny to stay in LA. Clemens to stay retired. Pujols signs 8 year extension with STL. Hudson signs with Braves. I wish I got paid to write a bunch of bullshit.

Jon Heyman – See Rosenthal. Not to mention he tries to be funny but really isn’t.

Joe Morgan/Steve Phillips/Orestes Ostrada/etc – they don’t know shit about baseball.