Sometimes, all you need is a little bit of context.
The nature of the catching shortage, bungee-cord DL moves, TMI on Tony Abreu, and more.
Beyond today’s detailed scouting reports on Eric Arnett and Ian Krol, notes on 18 more performances from the day in the minors.
Any way you slice it, Rockies right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez comes out on top.
Interesting baseball stories from newspapers across North America.
Padres pitchers are putting up plenty of zeroes to put the Friars atop the National League rankings.
We Open the Tomb of the Baseball Prospectus on proud racist Mike “Pinky” Higgins.
Kyle Lohse is headed for surgery on a rare arm injury, along with other medical news from around the major leagues.
Mike Petriello tries to make sense of the mess in Baltimore, and checks in on last week’s picks.
Krol, the Athletics’ seventh-round draft pick last season, is more impressive than Arnett, the Brewers’ first-rounder in 2009, in a head-to-head matchup.
The Angels left-hander talks about his evolution as a pitcher and breaks down his repotraire in great detail.
Keeping Stephen Strasburg in the minor leagues makes perfect financial sense for the Nationals.