Manny Machado and the doubles record
Manny Machado's still 20 years old and he's on track to break an 82-year-old record. Can he do it?
J.P. Arencibia has two walks and 55 strikeouts
Two and 55. Those numbers are the reasons you're reading this. They're the reason I'm writing this. J.P. Arencibia has started 37 of the Blue Jays' 47 games this year. He has 168 plate appearances...
Jesús Montero: A catcher no more
He's getting sent to Tacoma to become a first baseman, because it's just too early to give up on Jesús Montero's bat.
The finally successful Luke Hochevar
It wasn't the most direct path, but the Royals are finally getting some value out of the former #1 pick.
Manny Machado and the doubles record
Manny Machado's still 20 years old and he's on track to break an 82-year-old record. Can he do it?
J.P. Arencibia has two walks and 55 strikeouts
Two and 55. Those numbers are the reasons you're reading this. They're the reason I'm writing this. J.P. Arencibia has started 37 of the Blue Jays' 47 games this year. He has 168 plate appearances...
Just another Thursday night in Hogtown
Things are just different in Canada.
Jesús Montero: A catcher no more
He's getting sent to Tacoma to become a first baseman, because it's just too early to give up on Jesús Montero's bat.
Organizational droughts: shortstop
When was the last time your team developed a shortstop who had a great season? We have lists ...
The real Crash Davis plays for Louisville
Earlier this week, you probably read Eric Nusbaum's piece about Mexican legend Héctor Espino, the all-time home-run king of the minor leagues. I contributed a sidebar, with notes about all four...
Feeling blue about today's baseball statistics
How linguistics has taken the state of baseball stats from seeing red to feeling blue.
6 teams that need new old-timey livery
We're looking at you, San Diego Padres (but they're not the only team that's due for a switch to some classic look from the franchise's or city's past).
Rafael Soriano is a dingus
And other assorted thoughts.
Marlins or Astros: Who's worse?
Back in the early off-season, when the discerning baseball fan wanted to laugh at a team with dismal prospects, he or she would pick on the Houston Astros. Sure, the organization has hired smart...
Another umpire punches out another lefty
There's a systemic bias against left-handed hitters, and Tuesday night Melky Cabrera was just the latest victim.
Baseball's draft: The Bud & Bubba Show
Every year, we wonder why Baseball doesn't make its draft coverage more compelling. Well, they could fix the Bud Selig problem. But the Bubba Starling problem isn't going away.
Chris Colabello, Interesting Baseball Player
At 29, Chris Colabello has completed his exceptionally unlikely trip to the major leagues.
The Twins' Yoko Ono
When Samuel Deduno joins the Twins' rotation this weekend, they'll finally have a pitcher who can rack up the strikeouts like everybody else in the league.
Latest News
- Yankees activate Ivan Nova
- Reds place Sean Marshall on disabled list
- Red Sox moves: Victorino, Middlebrooks, Lavarnway, Iglesias, Aceves, Ross
- Twins to call up Samuel Deduno and PJ Walters for starts this weekend
- Phillies place Chase Utley on DL, call up Michael Martinez
- Royals option Kelvin Herrera to minors, recall Louis Coleman
- Blue Jays call up pitching prospect Sean Nolin, send Darren Oliver to DL
- Indians call up Scott Barnes, designate David Huff for assignment
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- Fay Vincent fixes the umpires
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- The gang's all here
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- Steep degree of difficulty
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- Alcides Escobar and Wednesday's Greatest Play
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Finding Stephen Strasburg's missing strikeouts
Stephen Strasburg's strikeout rate is down. What gives?
Organizational droughts: second base
Here's the third installment of organizational droughts, in which we look for the last homegrown star developed by each team at every position. The first part is here, where we learned that the...
Don Mattingly's borrowed time
On the heels of a disappointing season, it's happening again and suddenly manager Don Mattingly's further employment seems highly suspect.
Lamenting the demotion of Tony Cingrani
How can the Reds demote one of their better prospects when he was doing so well? Turns out it wasn't so hard ...
Baseball's Greatest Player?
With Miguel Cabrera on the fast track to a second Triple Crown, does anybody want to argue that he's not our greatest baseball player?
How pretty are first-place Braves sitting?
Even as the Braves look like the best team in the N.L. East, their top relief pitchers seem to go down every other day.
Paredes strikes again!
For the second time in a week, Astros right fielder Jimmy Paredes collided with a teammate playing second base. Monday night, it cost the Astros their second baseman. Friday night, it cost the Astros the game. Herein, all the gory details.
The 130 pitches of Yu Darvish
This is a headline in 2013: Darvish hits 130-pitch mark in win Who knows what headline we'll see in 2026 that won't seem weird at the time, but would seem really, really weird to us today?...
Phil Hughes: Object Lesson
Two starts ago, Phil Hughes' new-found slider was all the rage. Two starts later, nobody's talking about Phil Hughes' slider. Funny, what can happen in two starts.
2013's worst hitters, and optimism
These guys have been terrible, but at least of them will improve.
Organizational droughts: First base
When was the last time your team developed a star first baseman? We have lists.
Ned Yost on riding players while they're hot
When this season began, the Royals seemed to have improved themselves since last season, but also seemed to have a few obvious problems. One, they were relying on Luis Mendoza and Ervin Santana in...
