Prospectus Feature

Prospectus Feature: Getting ‘Em Outta There

For two decades, innings-per-start has been relatively stable across major-league baseball. Not this year.

Nobody takes the brunt of trade deadline season like the fungible minor-leaguer.

Uber, but more optioning and recalling players.

One factor in bridging the gap between the minors and majors? Confidence. Not the 2003 Ed Burns film.

'If 20 years ago, baseball understanding was a puddle, it's now a mineshaft, not a pool.'

It's a great game that could be better.

With DRA, solving BABIP--and other reasons to be excited about what we're measuring.

On Aristotle and the ethics of the trade deadline.

Down the rabbit hole of just how good the fifth-best pitching prospect in baseball is, historically speaking.

Diving deep into Jonah Keri's best-seller looking for secret messages from the future--or, at least, ominous foreshadowing.

In search of reverse Lirianos in the batter's box.

Money still buys success, but the league's payroll disparities appear to be shrinking. This is good.

Brian Kenny takes a victory lap for sabermetrics, but still treats the world as too simpleminded for it.

The Pirates' struggles this year might have more to do with the entire rest of the league than Pittsburgh's pitchers themselves.

Practice, practice, practice really might get you to Carnegie Hall, but probably not. What then?

Let's spend some time looking slack-jawed at Chris Young's season.