Baseball Therapy

Baseball Therapy: Credit Where It’s Due, Part 2

Attempting to assign credit and blame around the diamond when the ball is put into play.

Famed Mudville Nine slugger admits to steroids use during April 1 press conference.

Who is more responsible for a strikeout, the pitcher or the batter?

Hero worship has a large role in how teams are built.

Getting ahead in the count is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be.

Putting a big chill on the hot-hand theory of player performance at the plate.

What's really in that major-league makeup case?

Pitchers, unlike hitters, have no discernible pattern for reaching their peaks but they do often flame out quickly.

Dispelling the idea that all hitters reach their prime at the same age.

Alternating left-handed and right-handed relievers by temporarily shifting them to the outfield is an old strategy to reconsider.

A skipper's impact on offense generates some interesting results about who does and does not help his hitters hack.

Adventures in the anti-save and keeping games close late.

Evaluating thievery as a choice for tactical gain and profit.

Utility sounds handy, and everyone likes speed, but is a speedy utilityman the answer to your needs?

What if Aubrey Huff could just give you the short sales pitch about his best qualities?

A culture of winning is one of the best things to have, and a culture of losing is surely one of the worst, but do such things even exist?