Pebble Hunting

Pebble Hunting: That’s The Way I Like It And I’ll Never Get Bored

On being grateful for surprises.

The results of our preseason experiment in expectations and perception.

A night with baseball's newest prospect.

Cutting the cord on favorite ex-prospects.

The progression of the hidden-21K-game record.

The world stops and stares when a starter goes seven perfect innings, but largely yawns at the most dominant performances in the modern game.

Daniel Hudson was almost traded late last week. It might have rescued the pitcher from baseball's version of hell.

June in Clayton Kershaw's Zone 12 pitching.

Everybody butchers baseball. How do romance novels do, you might wonder.

Pitcher roles change, but what we think of as (statistically) a full season hasn't. This is bad and wrong.

Is anybody doing anything interesting, or are we all just waiting for the apocalypse?

Sam's continued quest to see if Kershaw is human even when the plate is centered.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The ultimate unintended consequence of the ever-expanding bullpen.

On the pitches the best pitcher in baseball has thrown, by one way of measuring it, the worst--and why they didn't hurt him.

A sketch of the missing bunts for us to put on our Missing Bunts fliers.