61. 2005 Toronto Blue Jays Preview ABOUT baseball previews the 2005 Toronto Blue Jays. billy koch (RP) fromMarlins Corey Koskie(3B) from Twins John McDonald (SS) from Indians http://baseball.about.com/od/2004seasoninfo/a/Jays_Preview.htm

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66. Welcome To USA Baseball - Home Of 2000 Olympic Gold Medalists The Official USA baseball Site. koch, billy, Bronze, 1996 Atlanta. Kotsay,Mark, Bronze, 1996 - Atlanta. Krivda, Rick, Gold, 2000 - Sydney http://www.usabaseball.com/sports/m-oly-basebl/archive/usab-m-oly-alumni.html

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68. The American Enterprise: Always Be Closing In a classic recent example, billy koch (formerly of Oakland and Toronto) Since then, Foulke has been one of the most reliable closers in baseball with http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18001/article_detail.asp

Search: Home Subscriptions Current issue Back issues ... Red America, Blue Europe Other Hot Flash columns In Search of Perfection Phoning it In The Sanctity of Roe This Time, From the Heart ... Click here to access the Archives Always Be Closing By David Damiani Previous Columns The crisis of Islam Canada's secret weapon Eric Cox reviews Man on Fire ... Click here to access the archives. When longtime Mariners and Orioles setup man Arthur Rhodes became a free agent after the 2003 season, several teams quickly expressed interest in signing him as a closer. While Rhodes had a superb history of success in the seventh and eighth innings and was especially brutal on left-handed hitters, he had never been any team's go-to man in the ninth. The response in vast swaths of the press was Pavlovian even by baseball writers' standards, with a virtual conga line forming to state that Rhodes was not only a first-time closer, but had lost velocity and had saved only 17 games in 44 chances in his career. This one man and that one statistic encapsulate well the strange ways in which closers are evaluated, and often misvalued. Overemphasis on the ambiguous "save" statistic and on velocity are among the most common misperceptions. Rhodes' 17-for-44 "success rate" highlights how the save statistic can become distorted. As a setup man, Rhodes rarely entered the game in the traditional save situationthat is, making an appearance in the ninth inning for a team with a slight lead. But setup men are charged with blown saves for losing leads in earlier innings in what are not actually save situations. And among the many leads Rhodes inherited in his eight strong seasons of middle relief work, he lost 27 of them. The frequent citation of the 17-for-44 statistic, rather than the more meaningful comparison of Rhodes' blown leads to his held ones, demonstrates the blind obsession with oversimplified analysis that often dominates both the media and traditional baseball thought. (Incidentally, Rhodes has converted six times in seven traditional save situations this season.)

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70. KFFL - Billy Koch, RP, Free Agents The Tampa Tribune s Scott Carter reports freeagent CL billy koch, recently cutloose by How many teams in baseball have a real closer? Guillen asked. http://kffl.com/player/5044/mlb

Members Username: Password: Can't Login? Home MLB MLB Players Search: KFFL SHOPPING Why KFFL? Premium Samples Sweepstakes ... Add to my watchlist Billy Koch Relief Pitcher for Free Agents HOTW Articles From Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec thru Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:20:13 -0700 The Tampa Tribune's Scott Carter reports free-agent CL Billy Koch , recently cut loose by the Toronto Blue Jays , was spotted at the Tuesday, April 5 game between the Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Devil Rays and told reporters he is in no hurry to return to baseball. Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:38:30 -0800 According to The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Paul Hoynes, the Cleveland Indians have no interest in picking up RP Billy Koch , who was cut loose by the Toronto Blue Jays Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:08:00 -0800 New York Newsday's David Lennon reports the New York Mets have interest in recently-released CL Billy Koch Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:51:14 -0800 Updating an ongoing story, The Toronto Sun's Mike Rutsey reports former Toronto Blue Jays CL Billy Koch holds no hard feelings toward the club that released him Thursday, March 17. "I feel like I have a lot to offer, but I see the way that (they're) going and how the organization wants to go," he said. "There's a lot of younger guys in camp that are going to be around for a while and most of them are throwing the daylights out of the ball. This is a competition. I just got beat."

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Movies Restaurants Food Calendar ... Books Bronx bombshells In 1977, New York City was touched by a special madness, from sports to politics April 17, 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City By Jonathan Mahler 356 pp., illustrated, ADVERTISEMENT When Jonathan Mahler, the author of this problematic portrait of a once-great city, was 8 and visited the New York of his father's childhood for the first time, ''it didn't take long to figure out that this wasn't the place I had imagined." Fun City had become Fear City, and the liberal vision that had once opened the golden door to millions now looked like a dead end. Nothing seemed to work any longer: not the government, the schools, the hospitals, or even union labor. Ethnic, class, and racial tensions simmered. The Bronx in particular, home to baseball's greatest franchise and the city's most bitterly disenfranchised, had become the poster child for urban blight. In 1977, everything in New York seemed to come to a full boil, including a July power blackout that triggered looting and arson. The spectacle of shirtless young men walking the streets carrying televisions and sofas atop their heads horrified the nation yet in retrospect appears to have been a cleansing event, marking the bottom that the city had seemed intent on hitting after decades of lofty vision and abysmal governance. Truly an annus horribilis for New York, 1977 nonetheless provides Mahler with a gold mine of great settings, players, and themes. Was it the city's worst year ever? Though a historian might argue for 1835, 1863, or 1911, the logic of Mahler's choice is compelling.

72. Boston.com / Sports / Beane Has Looked Sharp By Doing Things His Way There were passages in the book in which Beane ridiculed some baseball scouts Who else could get away with trading his 2002 closer, billy koch a man http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2003/09/28/beane_has_looked_sharp_by_doing

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74. Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game By Rob Neyer And James Surowieck So, while I don t doubt that Beane wanted billy koch on his team last year, Rob Neyer is a senior baseball writer with ESPN.com and his latest book is http://slate.msn.com/id/2083857/entry/2083955/

placeAd(1,'slate.news/slate') Print E-mail Discuss Newsletters ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search placeAd(3,'slate.homepage/slate') placeAd(6,'slate.homepage/slate'); the book club New books dissected over e-mail. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri From: James Surowiecki To: Rob Neyer Subject: Decision-Making Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 9:14 AM PT Rob, I'm not sure I agree with you about the media coverage of Moneyball . I've actually been impressed by how few reviewers have misread the book. Most reviewers seem to have a decent grasp on the fundamentals of Oakland's success and have done a good job of distinguishing between the method (sabermetrics, roughly speaking) and the man (Beane). (This is a testament to Lewis' ability to make complicated ideas accessible.) The people who have misread the book, ironically, are people in the baseball community. Of course, as you explained yesterday, they've got a psychological investment in doing so. Continue Article placeAd(2,'slate.homepage/slate') But you're right that, even though statistics are obviously important to the A's, the real key to the team's success is the way "they think not only about statistics, but nearly everything else that comes with running a baseball team." In a column I wrote about Beane for

75. BASEBALL'S TRYING TO CHANGE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE YANKE But thanks to quirks in scheduling and baseball having to start at the tail paired with three other solid starters and new closer billy koch to clean http://www.blacktable.com/pitzer030327.htm

var sc_project=231319; var sc_invisible=1; BASEBALL'S TRYING TO CHANGE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE YANKEES: OUR SEASON PREVIEW. By Matt Pitzer A debate about banning a substance that by most accounts contributed to a young player's death. An owner claiming, in March, that he has no chance to re-sign a star player. A fat pitcher practically boasts of his public intoxication and creates a firestorm in his clubhouse. The commissioner ponders bringing back one of our era's most notorious gamblers. Ah, glorious baseball is back. The season would have started this week in Japan before fears about traveling abroad sacked that idea. So Opening Day which hasn't deserved those capital letters for several years gets bumped back to Sunday when the defending champion Anaheim Angels host the Texas Rangers. The real meat of the schedule kicks in on Monday, but even that day isn't what it used to be. Most years, the real Opening Day is on the same day as the NCAA championship, making one of the great sports days of the year. Baseball all day. NCAA final at night. But thanks to quirks in scheduling and baseball having to start at the tail end of March because they've tacked on so many playoff rounds in October, that day is ruined this year.

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78. IDS: Baseball Closers (Sports, 12/04/2002) the Oakland Athletics traded closer billy koch to the Chicago White Sox on In exchange for koch and two minor leaguers, the Athletics will get White http://www.idsnews.com/story.php?id=13567

79. RotoChamps.com : Billy Koch billy koch profile, Relief Pitcher, statistics, projections, career stats, All baseball Pitchers 2005 MLB Projections 44 billy koch Free Agent (RP) http://www.rotochamps.com/mlb-3281-Billy-Koch.html

Baseball Headlines: Series Notes: Detroit at LA Angels of Anaheim Series Notes: Seattle at Texas Series Notes: Oakland at Boston Series Notes: Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco ... Roto Bookstore There are currently people in chat: JOIN CHAT Mar 17, 2005 - 11:34 am Blue Jays released RHP Billy Koch. Jan 10, 2005 - 3:12 pm Blue Jays signed RHP Billy Koch, who had been with the Marlins, to a one-year, $900,000 contract. Jan 10, 2005 - 8:41 am The Blue Jays and Billy Koch reportedly have agreed to terms on a minor league contract. Oct 19, 2004 - 5:08 pm Marlins released RHP Billy Koch. Jun 17, 2004 - 11:29 pm Marlins acquired RHP Billy Koch and cash from the White Sox for infielder Wilson Valdez. Jun 13, 2004 - 11:28 am Billy Koch will remain in a setup role for now, but he may return as the White Sox' closer later this season. Jun 09, 2004 - 12:00 am Billy Koch is out as the White Sox closer. Manager Ozzie Guillen said he will use Shingo Takatsu, Damaso Marte and Mike Jackson to close games. Feb 22, 2004 - 5:57 pm Billy Koch said he has been told by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen that the closer's role is his to lose.

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