BASEBALL BLOG LINK WARS!: So much drama in the sabermetric section of the Blogosphere... Aaron Gleeman reacted yesterday to ESPN columnist Rob Neyer's recent column about the recent utter collapse of the Minnesota Twins. Neyer made many points in the piece (that Johan Santana should be in the rotation instead of Joe Mays, that the team is being inefficient by failing to trade its surplus of outfielders for infielders, etc.) that Gleeman has been making all season. Indeed, Gleeman ran a "Johan Santana Liberation Watch" every day of the season, and led with a Martin Luther King quote the day Santana was inserted in the rotation.
Gleeman's beef is that since he has been making these points all year, and he assumes that Neyer reads his blog, it would only have been appropriate for Neyer to mention and/or link to Aaron's Baseball Blog in the piece. Neyer does mention both sabermetric meccas Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (the later of which Gleeman writes for), but not the blogs of Gleeman and John Bonnes.
Gleeman has a point, but he shouldn't take it so personally- after all, all of the above are adherents to sabermetric theory, and would likely draw the same conclusions from the same data. I just wonder why none of them have complained about the use of low-OPS outfielder Jacque Jones in the leadoff spot. And that Rob Neyer is from Kansas City and roots for the Twins' nemesis the Royals certainly complicates matters.
The lack of linky love from Neyer doesn't keep Gleeman from being in a charitable mood, however; he linked to Jeremy Wahlman in the same piece, giving JW a couple hundred extra hits today.