I'll be honest: I was looking to write something on Manny Ramirez returning to the majors. It would have been half-speculative and half-silly. Which team would benefit the most? Which team would...

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You could put an obstacle course out in center field and Carlos Gomez would still find a way to catch that deep fly ball hit over his head.

Yesterday, Bill James wrote (subscriber-only) about Manny Machado's chances of breaking the all-time, single-season double record. Here's the meat, or rather the top and bottom buns; I snipped out...

So there are two really great things about this record: 1. There's a penguin on the label! 2. It's not even two-and-a-half minutes long... Then again, that's the B-side of the record. Maybe...

Myers will bat 6th, play RF, and wear #9 in his MLB debut. The same 3 things can be said about Ted Williams's MLB debut in 1939. — Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) June 18, 2013 Oh. Other...

You might be familiar with the video of what cricket looks like to Americans. Now there's a spiritual companion for baseball. Behold! Once Ichiro hits it in the Pernicious Poem Place,...

An Oakland A's toilet visual. Too soon, or has the comic window on that unfortunate event already closed?

Yes, players are more willing to strike out than they've ever been. But since when have players paid any attention to sabermetrics?

If you search Google for Earl Weaver and platoons, a lot of good stuff comes up. There's a SABR article, a great Hardball Times piece, and an "online encyclopedia" that anyone can edit. The...

Over at Beyond the Box Score, Ben Horrow surveyed the top players and pitchers over the last calendar year, and found a few surprising names. Check it out. Looking at stats from the last 365 days,...

As if the transformation from skinny TV nerd to swashbuckling action hero weren't enough, now Joseph Gordon-Levitt is playing ball for Our Planet's Baseball Team? Yup: Seriously, baseball...

I'm old. So when I saw this dramatic video ... ... the first thing I thought of was Bo Jackson, who famously threw out Harold Reynolds from roughly the same spot almost 25 years ago. I say r...

According to the seller, this is one of those revenge sales that you probably thought existed only in urban legend. Let him tell the story: My sister’s deadbeat ex-husband thought it was okay...