This offseason’s free agent market looks and sounds an awful lot like the 1980s.
By the end, it was difficult to tell whether it had merely become routine or if there was a part of him in which hope still resided. Many argued the former, positing his demand for bus fare in the latter years meant he had gone soft and treated these several weeks in April as a…
On Cats, Anxiety, and the Houston Astros By: David Temple Verne is not a terribly… good cat. She’s not even all that cute. She doesn’t do much beyond sleep, yell at nothing in particular (she’s deaf as a stone), and occasionally pee on my bed when I’m at work. Oh, and she drools―all the time….
Matt calculates all AL East animosity, Mary provides background for a Jon Jay slide, and James looks for signs of disappointing starts.
Baseball is entwined with American history, but it can also be the source of propaganda.
The supposedly neutral record of baseball statistics has been anything but.
A lot of history is made, some dubious, and Joey Gallo debuts, plus what to watch for today.
Did Bill James revolutionize baseball? Did we? Did Michael Lewis?
The Rays reliever does something no other pitcher has ever done’strike out the side with the bases loaded on nine pitches.
Solving baseball mysteries with the aid of an unlikely source.
Why knowing what went before will help the sabermetric movement in the future.
How does the first calendar year of Matt Harvey’s career stack up to those of other fast starters?
Why historical changes in pitching mechanics haven’t always led to improvement.
Some expanded historical background on the events of the new movie about baseball’s integration.