MLBlogs Latest Leaders for 2009
Back by popular demand, we’ve compiled the Latest Leaders for MLBlogs for the past year. As it turned out, 2009 was a great year to be an MLBlogger, with some new faces joining some old standbys with large audiences. For the second-straight year, it was a Cub (Reed Johnson, this time) who boasted the most traffic amongst the player-bloggers. MetsBlog.com reigned supreme in the Pro Blogs category, while Confessions of a She-Fan edged out last year’s top Fan blog, Red State Blue State. It was newcomer Bowman’s Blog that ended up leading the team beat writer blogs. Congratulations to everyone on the list and here’s wishing you all a very happy 2010!
Here’s a link to the 2008 Latest Leaders for those of you who would like to do a year-to-year comparison.
PLAYERS
1. Reed Between the Lines
2. Torii’s Storiis
3. Ank’s Blog
4. Behind the Mask
5. Matt’s Blog
6. Disco Hayes
7. Dining with ‘Dre
8. kevin slowey’s (offseason) blog
9. Scott Eyre’s Blog
10. Matt Kemp’s Blog
11. Big Papi’s Blog
12. Deep Thoughts By Gordon Beckham
13. Derek’s Blog
14. Perk’s Place
15. Moskie Madness
16. Beau knows diddly
17. Bally’s Blog
18. Plouffe!
19. Rick’s Blog
20. Laying Down the Lawrie
21. Wagner’s Compositions
22. Life in Grey Pants
23. Future in Pinstripes
24. 30 is the new 20
25. Huston Street’s Blog
26. Braves in the AFL
27. Hanley’s Blog
28. Giants in the AFL
29. Michael Cuddyer’s Blog
30. Prince’s Blog
MLB PRO
1. MetsBlog.com
2. Hot Stove Blog
3. Bronx Banter
4. Mets Minor League Blog
5. Was Watching
6. Pinstriped Bible
7. Trade Talk
8. Inside the Dodgers
9. The Kimberly Jones Blog
10. YES Blog
11. Baseball Nerd
12. MLB.com Fantasy 411
13. The Baseball Collector
14. Alyson’s Footnotes
15. *touch* ’em all
16. Around the Horn in KC
17. Phillies Insider
18. Inside the White Sox
19. Reds Internal Affairs
20. Inside the Giants Clubhouse
21. Ben’s Biz Blog
22. The Max
23. MLBlogosphere (lol)
24. Newberg Report
25. MLB.TV Blog
26. The USA Baseball 16U Blog
27. Red Sox Insider Blog
28. B3: Big, Bald and Beautiful
29. Vine Line’s Cubs Club Blog
30. Tommy Lasorda’s World
31. Kaat’s Korner
32. Beat the Streak Report
33. The Blob
34. Twins Ballpark Update
35. Friar John’s Blog
36. Down the Line with the Phillies Ballgirls
37. The Nets Insider
38. Deep in the Red
39. MLB Urban Youth Academy
40. The Pulse
41. Brian Anderson’s House of Blogs
42. Off The Wall with Chris Shearn
43. Mrs. Singy
44. MURRAY COOK’S FIELD BLOG
45. New Era Presents the Call-Up
46. Heard It From Hoard
47. Notes from NatsTown
48. Comerica Park, 48201
49. Is this thing on?  
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50. View From the Booth
51. Better Off Red
52. Inside the Chiefs
53. Remembering Harry Kalas
54. The LumberBlog
55. MLB.com Organizational Report
56. got milb?
57. Gameday
58. Twins Confidential
59. The Dog Ate Daron’s Homework..Again
60. Chirp Chatter
61. Harold Reynolds Presents
62. Psychollingy
63. From the Booth with Steve Stewart
64. A Voice From Twins Territory
65. HYDE’S INSIDE PITCH
66. Jesse Sanchez at the Park
67. Delmarva Shorebirds Blog
68. Siguiendo a los Mets
69. MiLB Snap Shots
70. Welcome to Third and King
71. ‘Topes Tattler
72. It’s a Kind of a Family. It’s a Kind of Insanity.
73. 2009 Reds Winter Caravan
74. Extra Innings with the K Crew
75. Welcome To The Show
76. Clubhouse Confidential
77. Cooperstown Chatter
78. Colorado Springs Sky Sox Official Team Blog
79. MLB.TV Mosaic Blog
80. A ‘Braves’ New World
81. An Astros Minute
82. The Dish
83. Voices of The Game
84. @MLB
85. A’s Ticket Services
86. MLB.com Geeking on the Draft
87. Desde el Desierto
88. MLB Musings with Michael – Look Who I Just Interviewed!
89. Tony Schiavone Blog
90. MLB.com Mobile Blog
91. Yankee Stadium Memories
92. MLB.com/Entertainment
93. Brooks Robinson’s Hot Corner
94. John & Cait…Plus Nine
95. DONDE NACEN LAS ESTRELLAS
96. El Champion Bat
97. Detrás de Los Dodgers
98. Diggin’ In to the Legends with SuperMario
99. Ask Dave
100. Rainiers Rants
FANS
1. Confessions of a She-Fan
2. Red State Blue State
3. Julia’s Rants
4. The Happy Youngster…Brew Town’s Ballhawk
5. Rockpile Rant
6. The Future Blog of the Red Sox
7. Phillies Phollowers
8. I Live for This
9. FutureAngels.com
10. Rays Renegade
11. Pick Me Up Some Mets!
12. Blogging Dodgers and Baseball
13. Yankees Chick
14. I’m Not A Headline Guy…
15. A Diatribe from a Journalism Student
16. Counting Baseballs
17. The ‘Burgh Blues
18. Indians, Cardinals, and Tigers! Oh my!
19. Eat, Sleep, Baseball
20. Unfinished Business
21. THE BOSTON RED SOX BLOG
22. Baseball, The Yankees, and Life…
23. Plunking Gomez
24. Baseball Cleats & Shoes
25. LA NACION MEDIAS ROJAS
26. King of Cali
27. Bruce Markusen’s Cooperstown Confidential
28. Cambios y Curvas
29. Statistician Magician
30. The 1 Constant
31. Passion & Pride Collide
32. Rocky Mountain Way…Outside Coors looking in
33. The Diamond Diva
34. All Baseball All The Time
35. King Yankees
36. Flair For The Dramatic
37. Hook, Line Drive, & Sinker
38. Cook & Son Bats’ Blog
39. A Misplaced Astros Fan
40. The Closer
41. The Yankees Baseball Whisperer
42. Live, Eat, and Breathe Yankees
43. Phillies Red Pinstripes
44. The Pittsburgh Peas
45. The Watercooler
46. sittingstill
47. Baseball Canadiana
48. Everything Baseball
49. Yogi Brewer
50. Cardinal Girl
51. Bottom of the Ninth
52. The Brewer Nation
53. The NYC Autograph Collector
54. Linea de Primera
55. A Bite Off The Big Apple
56. A Girl’s View of the Brewers, and Other Related Baseball Things
57. cat loves the dodgers
58. Bjarkman’s Latino and Cuban League Baseball History Page
59. The Season Experience
60. Ranger Rumors
61. Baseball Bats
62. We’re talkin Homer, Blue Jays and MLB
63. Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
64. The Rumor Mill – MLB Rumors
65. Redbird Chatter
66. More Cowbell
67. DYNASTY League Baseball from designer of Pursue the Pennant
68. This is what the girl thinks….
69. Ted’s Take
70. Angry Fan’s Baseball Fix
71. Red Sox Nation Daily
72. Hitless Wanderings in Texas
73. Baseball’s Hottest Wives
74. District Boy
75. MLB in the eyes of a 14 year old
76. Up in Section 360
77. Prose and Ivy
78. Perfect Pitch
79. Yawkey Way Yaker
80. For Love of The Game
81. Twins Limey
82. Hello Halos! My View of the Big A
83. Sports Propaganda
84. Bringing Diamond Back(s)
85. Bleeding Pinstripes
86. The Squad
87. Dodgers Trends
88. Crzblue’s Dodger Blue World
89. Outside the Phillies Looking In
90. The Golden Rule
91. New Mexican Yankee Fan
92. Mets’ Main Man
93. Pinstripes in the Bronx
94. Art of the Pale Hose
95. Go Redlegs!
96. When it Rains it Pours
97. Blogging ‘Bout Baseball
98. El Casillero de los Medias Rojas
99. How ‘Bout Those Phils?
100. Wrightoholics
MLB.COM BEAT WRITERS
1. Bowman’s Blog
2. The Zo Zone
3. Muskat Ramblings
4. Bombers Beat
5. Obviously, You’re Not a Golfer
6. Postcards from Elysian Fields
7. Beck’s Blog
8. CastroTurf
9. Brownie Points
10. Brew Beat
11. All Nats All the Time
12. Mark My Word
13. By Gosh, It’s Langosch
14. Major League Bastian
15. Haft-Baked Ideas
16. rallymonkeys
17. The Fish Pond
18. Being Ozzie Guillen
19. Noble Thoughts
20. Kenny G Around the Horn
Mark Newman
Can anyone tell me how I go about getting the MLBlogs Top 100 banner for my blog?
Please e-mail me at artberke@gmail.com.
Thanks.
Stop by the Rockpile Rant and check out how to enter the “Pitch Your Team”Video Contest. The cutoff for video entries is the All-Star Break. Show your team luv.
D..The Rockpile Ranter.
http://baseballsnatcher.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/i_figured_i_better_make.html
My latest entry “He Pitched a Perfect Game, I Get a Perfect Ball!” Woohoo!!
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com
I am truly lucky and blessed to have these friends and to have shared so many Dodger moments with them
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/
Hi Mark
I have been pushing like crazy to get back on your list since december, and you haven’t done another list.
Can we look forward to another one soon?
Noni
Hi, Mark, and all at mlb.com …
Thanks for listing a quote from my blog on the mlblogs homepage … It is always enjoyable to read the many fine quotes listed in that section !!!
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Enjoy Spring Training !!!
— Jimmy, “BY&L”
— http://baseballtheyankeesandlife.mlblogs.com/
Mr. MLBLogosphere I think your listing is good for bloggers to see how they are doing, however I have scanned through the ‘Fans Blogs’ and wonder how some bloggers feel about being beaten on the list by blogs that are inactive for more than 12 months. You should maybe consider eliminating those blogs from qualification if they had no posts in the year or month your list represents.
Just a thought as most blogs I have looked at the bloggers work hard and deserve some recognition, but when a blogger doesn’t make your list because of inactive blogs, it could dishearten them and make them stop blogging in an areana that relys on fan paticipation.
I like MLBlogs, many varied views, with lots of information too.
– MLB Critic
Sorry Mark but I am going to “bitch and moan” – Fine – if MLB Network wants to show the Red Sox -Orioles game today to the rest of the country then great! BUT to BLACK IT OUT IN THE BOSTON AREA AND NOT ALLOW A LOCAL STATION TO BROADCAST IT???? Do the folks in California and Texas care as much about this game as we were in the Boston area do?? NOT OKAY!!!
Julia
Julia’s Rants
werbiefitz.mlblogs.com
Since the Android OS is going to put iPhone into extinction, I think MLB enterprises should get an MLB At-Bat app available on Android systems. I’d buy it in a heartbeat, as would others. I have the free beta MLB Android app, but I don’t think it will allow for live streaming… at least I don’t think so. If I’m wrong then yay for me.
–Jeff
http://redstatebluestate.mlblogs.com/
Mark,
Thank you for the “Rays” front page this morning.
I know I can not speak for all of us, but I am excited about this year.
Again, I want to thank you for including myself and the other bloggers, including the Rays Spirit Team in this front page.
I will do everything I can to earn that honor in 2010.
Rays Renegade
http://raysrenegade.mlblogs.com
number 69,
Thanks Mark. It was a good one
http://tribewithted.mlblogs.com/
Looking forward to a great season!! Congrats to those who made it on the list too!! As for the comment above me (the gucci one) random is all I have to say right now. LET’S GO RED SOX!!
-Holly
http://irishsoxkid19.mlblogs.com
Never mind! User problem…Thanks.
Anyone else having problems logging in to create posts or update your blog? It takes me to creating a new blog instead of updating mine. It was OK when I tried at work but from home I am having problems.
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/
Great job with the list again Mark. Are we going to get badges this year? If you can I would love them. Looking forward to the next latest leaders!
Bob, http://bostonsports.mlblogs.com/
Awesome !!! … #22
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It is great to be ranked #22 on the 2009 MLBlogs “Fans” Leaders List !!!
“Thank You”, to all who visited my mlblog throughout the 2009 season !!!
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Also, “Congratulations”, to all blogs on all the 2009 MLBlogs Leaders Lists !!!
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And, special “thanks” to Mark and all at MLBlogs/mlb.com, for all your efforts … that have made MLBlogs such an excellent “Baseball Blogging Community” !!!
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I look forward to another great baseball season in 2010 !!!
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Take care, everybody …
Enjoy Spring Training !!!
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Best Wishes,
— Jimmy, “BY&L”
— http://baseballtheyankeesandlife.mlblogs.com/
Congrats to those who made Top 100 for 2009. You guys upped the ante for those of us who were Top 100 in previous years.
Mark, if we didn’t make Top 100, how do we remove the badge off of our MLBlogs? Please advise…
Thanks, all!
http://heirloom.mlblogs.com
It’s been a while since I was last here. Lot of new faces grazing the top 100 fan blogs, and Jane is still running at the top of the list. Congrats to everyone, especially to Bowman for topping the beat writers’ category.
http://bravesred.mlblogs.com
Mark,
so where are you? are you OK?
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/
http://DodgersBlueBlog.com/
Listing it up! I’m happy. Also, everyone else on here rocks.
http://homerfoodandhistory.mlblogs.com/
I am happy for my 25 position. Ever I am in the list like the first blog in Spanish, so I guess I must to be proud, specially because the second one is ever the Yankee blog Cambios y Curvas… At least the Sox fans we beat them in that… 🙂
Antonio
http://mediasrojas.mlblogs.com
Mark, first off, many thanks for all your hard work! A quick question – how do those of us new to the year-end Top 100 get one of those little banners for the header of our blog? Not an urgent issue, but just wondering, when you have a moment. Thanks!
Sue
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
Happy birthday to Jackie Robinson today January 31st! he would have been 91. Check my tribute to him
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/01/happy_birthday_jackie_robinson.html
rkski1224,
That is sweet of you to come here and let bloggers know that you read them regarless if you have read mine or not.
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Mark,
Question: Why is it that sometimes we get post that are out of order? My answer to a question was the first post and the question second. I know Jane also has had that problem and also in the ITD blog.
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Also Mark, #12 blog’s link is actually linked #13 Yankee Chick so both #12 & 13 are pointing to Yankee Chick’s blog. I know Roberto put a link there to his blog a year ago.
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Thanks Mark for all you do for us!
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/
Thanks to everyone who reads Prose and Ivy! I enjoy hearing from each of you and sharing my thoughts re: the Cubs throughout the year. I’m thrilled to be on this list for a second straight year. Congratulations to everyone on the list…there are many on here that I read regularly! You’ve got a great group of baseball fans here Mark! Keep up the great work with MLBlogs.
Ryan
Prose and Ivy
http://onedayatwrigleyac000000.mlblogs.com/
Thanks to all of you who may have wondered by Cook & Sons Bats’ Blog. 2009 was awesome. Now, let’s hear it for 2010! Exciting times are ahead of us.
-Todd
http://cookandsonbats.mlblogs.com
i hope to crack the top 100 soon
I am a constant reader of many of these blogs. It’s great to hear about all the information with people on or close to certain teams and the true feelings of the fans. Best of 2010 is where I hope to be.
Hey! Back to back in the MLB.com Top 100 in 2008 and 2009 for DYNASTY League Baseball.
http://thebestsoxblog.mlblogs.com
I didn’t make it!!!!!!!! That’s cool I’m #101 I’m sure
Looks like I didn’t even make it on the top 100. That’s not great at all. I need some serious catching up to do. Once again, congrats to everyone who made it on the list.
http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
Huh, I see the fan list goes up to 100 now. I was wondering why it stopped at 57 before. I’m number 63 – cool! Probably shouldn’t admit that it’s the year I was born, now you can all figure out how old I am. 🙂
Congrats to all who made the list!
Sue
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
Mark,
Was thinking last night with Truck Day on the horizon, and Spring Training report dates being so anxiously anticipated, maybe this is the perfect time to repost the J-Blog school you did during 2009.
It would give the new bloggers a chance to also pick-up on some of the wiesdon you gave all of us last year…..
Just a thought.
Rays Renegade
http://raysrenegade.mlblogs.com
Just outside the Top 50 after a couple of unplanned lapses. Good thing when we’re hot, we’re really hot! LOL
Hopefully I’m not unemployed at all this year and the Brewer Nation will be back up in the upper echelon for 2010, just like the team in the standings!!
Thanks Mark and everyone!
Adam “Big” Rygg
http://brewernation.mlblogs.com
http://www.thebrewernation.com (Bounces to the site…easier to tell your friends!)
ugh didnt mean for that to post 3 times. sorry
http://pittpeas.mlblogs.com
how exactly is this list made? page views only? i’m thankful for everyone who has stopped by and read “The Peas” My goal is to make you loyal readers Pirate supporters! Also thankful for thos who will be secretly cheering for the Bucs while root, root, rooting hard for your own team!
number 44….thank you!
http://pittpeas.mlblogs.com
how exactly is this list made? page views only? i’m thankful for everyone who has stopped by and read “The Peas” My goal is to make you loyal readers Pirate supporters! Also thankful for thos who will be secretly cheering for the Bucs while root, root, rooting hard for your own team!
number 44….thank you!
http://pittpeas.mlblogs.com
how exactly is this list made? page views only? i’m thankful for everyone who has stopped by and read “The Peas” My goal is to make you loyal readers Pirate supporters! Also thankful for thos who will be secretly cheering for the Bucs while root, root, rooting hard for your own team!
number 44….thank you!
http://pittpeas.mlblogs.com
I’m not here to be popular, really. I see this as more of a popularity contest, that I won’t be whining about too much. Congrats to everyone that made it, I hope your mouth isn’t full of foam after you find yourself in this list.
Matthew T.
http://matt7.mlblogs.com/
35! Wow!
http://bronx-awesome.mlblogs.com/
Congrats to everyone who made the list!!
Thanks so much everyone! #20 is pretty cool, I mean for a whole year? That’s amazing!! Thanks so much for reading me blog 🙂
http://kaybee.mlblogs.com/
PS: I miss Kouz.
Lucky #13 for me! Of course I’d end up with Alex’s number. 😉
Thanks to all who checked out my blog last year, either just by reading it or by leaving messages…..it’s greatly appreciated. Hope to see you this coming season as well.
Beth
http://yankeeschick.mlblogs.com
Congratulations to all the bloggers here, regardless of their ranking. Everybody deserves applause (clap clap clap) for putting their passion into words. And thanks to those who stop by “Confessions.” It’s much appreciated.
She-Fan
http://janeheller.mlblogs.com
Good company as always. We love being a part of this and look forward to it for a long, long time. Peace, Y’all!
–Jeff & Al
http://redstatebluestate.mlblogs.com/
Thanks to everyone for stopping by! Lucky #7 – cool :O) Very proud to be included with such great bloggers!
Jenn
http://philliesphollowers.mlblogs.com/
Number 5 for the entire year. Amazing…Thank you for keeping the Rant around. Guess I owe it all to Mr Zack Hample. Without his zest for snagging baseballs and writing about it, I’d never be doing what I do. I met a lot of cool people this season through my blog. Blogging is so much more than I ever thought it could be. For me it’s a way of making lasting friendships, conquering personal fears, expressing yourself, spending time with my family and most of all having fun and enjoying baseball. Mark..Thank you Sir for another great year of leadership. I look forward the next level of MLBLogs.
Please check my picture side project at:
http://peopleofboulder.wordpress.com/
Let me know what you think..Good Luck to all and lets see where this season takes us?
D The Rockpile Ranter
http://baseballsnatcher.mlblogs.com/
Back up to 17, thass how we do it! #17, 17 losing seasons? Meh, mere coinkidink.
http://www.theburghblues.com/ (.com!!!)
Wow!! I am excited that my blog even placed. Thanks everyone for all your support!
http://catlovesthedodgers.mlblogs.com
Congrats to everyone mentioned on all of the lists for 2009.
For those who did not make the lists, do not fret or get discouraged.
Just keep writing what you enjoy about blogging about and soon you will get more commenters and more views, which can turn into a solid following here on MLBlogs.com.
Moved up 13 spots in 2009, which is amazing and I owe all of it to the people and bloggers who have come by and been amused or imformed by my special brand of rambling. I have had over 182,568+ views since August 2008, and I thank every one of you for the support!
Again, thank you Mark Newman, out Blog Ptofessor for doing another Latest Leader posting at this busy time in preparation for Spring baseball.
Hopefully I can keep up the smiles and the interesting posts agin here in 2010 and shoot for a small step forward again next year…………Just keep on blogging people!!!
Rays Renegade
http://raysrenegade.mlblogs.com
Congrats everybody. Next year I’m sure CastoTurf will reign supreme! I honestly think that is the best beat-writer blog and it has some great comment threads. 31 days until pitchers and catchers. Let’s go Mets!
-Ellie
http://mrmetbro.blogspot.com
Wow! #3? A long way from #95! Thank you Mark for doing this – we all know the off-season isn’t quiet for you – and thank you to ALL the bloggers here and all those who read and comment on our blogs! This is a wonderful community of people who love baseball! The friends I’ve made here are friends I know I will have with me the rest of my life! The only thing that remains to be said is – is it April yet? 🙂
Julia
http://werbiefitz.mlblogs.com
Fifteen?! REALLY?! You guys are amazing for reading my blogs, even in the sporadic months at the end of the season. Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! 🙂 That really means a lot to me. Congrats to all the leaders!
Jen
http://ajroxmywhitesox.mlblogs.com
Ooh yeah.
Congrats to everyone! I thought 2009 will be top 100 blogs as well. I’m surprised I didn’t make it on the list. I’ve been blogging for more than a year. Well that’s very disappointing. Looks like I have to put in more work on my entries.
http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
Hyunyoung,
I would not be surprised that you made the top 100. Is just that the lsit only goes to the 50’s. I am enjoying how how young bloggers like yourself, Elizabeth, Kaybee are developing and just are getting better and better. I bet you are in the December list.
Emma
http://crzblue.mlblogs.com/