Pebble Hunting

Pebble Hunting: Your Job Sucks, and So Does Bobby Abreu’s

We don't like to hear baseball players complain about their lots in life, but can we blame them for not counting their blessings?

Pebble Hunting: Moneyball: The Prequel

by Sam Miller 3/30

Decades before Billy Beane and Ricardo Rincon, there was Steve Boros and "computer baseball."

Pebble Hunting: The Burden of Batting Fourth

by Sam Miller 3/28

Few players have made their major-league debuts in the cleanup spot, and the A's Yoenis Cespedes wasn't one of them.

Pebble Hunting: Let’s Play “Pick an Old or Injury-Prone Pitcher”

by Sam Miller 3/26

If you had to bet on Jamie Moyer, Mark Prior or Scott Kazmir to win more games from today until the end of the world, on which pitcher would you bet?

Pebble Hunting: The Meaning of Russell Branyan

by Sam Miller 3/23

After seventeen stints with major-league organizations, Russell Branyan may have reached the end of the line, bringing an end to an era in more than one way.

Pebble Hunting: Watching the Worst Game of 2011

by Sam Miller 2/15

Even the least entertaining game of last season contained 15 interesting moments.

Pebble Hunting: Searching for the Worst Game of 2011

by Sam Miller 1/30

Twenty terrible games enter. Only one wins. Or loses, depending on how you look at it.

Pebble Hunting: Scott Boras’ First Time

by Sam Miller 1/25

Long before there was Prince Fielder, there was Bill Caudill, one of the first beneficiaries of the super-agent's skills.

Pebble Hunting: Born to Be Twins

by Sam Miller 1/23

Minnesota Twins pitchers tend to be a lot like Brad Radke.

Pebble Hunting: The Battered Batter

by Sam Miller 1/09

A visual and statistical look at Carlos Quentin's track record of taking one for the team.

Pebble Hunting: The Three We Missed

by Sam Miller 1/03

Of the top 500 2011 WARP earners, we missed three in last year's annual. Here are their names, why we missed them, and what we should've written.

Pebble Hunting: Everything is Now Super–The Press Conference

by Sam Miller 12/19

Don't believe everything you hear at introductory press conferences.

Pebble Hunting: These Pitches Three

by Sam Miller 12/12

Javier Lopez, Brad Lidge, and Henry Rodriguez all have unusual offerings you should be aware of.

Pebble Hunting: Can I Interest You in a Juan Gonzalez Hall of Fame Brochure?

by Sam Miller 11/22

Sam deconstructs a 12-page pamphlet that supports sending Juan Gonzalez to Cooperstown.

Pebble Hunting: Baseball’s Brief History of Headline Puns

by Sam Miller 10/25

A trip through online archives reveals that the history of baseball's pun-happy headlines isn't as old as that of the game itself.

Pebble Hunting: Three Major-League Teams Interview Three Baseball Men for Job Openings

by Sam Miller 10/03

Fake-filling vacancies in Anaheim, Chicago, and Boston.