When a team acquires this much injury risk, do they hire more people to their training staff? If not, why don't they? It seems like a pretty small expenditure for a major-league team.

Free Nick Swisher!

It's interesting that between Damon, Matsui, Swisher, Nady and Posada, The Yankees have more DH's on their roster than starting outfielders. Strange roster construction.

Even if Posada is at 75%, he's still better than most fantasy catchers, especially if he gets some extra time at DH.

I think I will be glad to take Wang as my 5th starter of FB if he falls after 15th round in a 12 man draft. He does not strike out much, but if you have some high K/9 guys in front of him, he is a very good source of W while doesn't hurt you in other categories except K. Many people overlook the importance of W in FB, but generally the W comes very close between teams in a league, and even slightly increase in W can give you considerable edge over other teams. And Wang, known as the win specialist, gives you more then slightly increase in W.

I decided to look it up. Hank Aaron's bad season in 1968 was right before they changed the fences in Atlanta. That's my best guess, because although he was 34 years old, he had well over 600 PA

Hank Aaron had a down year in 1968 because it was 1968, a season so notable for its inbalance against hitting that it has its own name. Aaron's adjusted EQA was .332 comapred to .339 the year before and .335 the year after.

When I saw 1968 that is immediately what I thought of, too. The NL ERA that year was 2.99. Bob Gibson had a 1.12 ERA, while both Bobby Bolin and Bob Veale had ERAs right at 2.00 - Veale's with a losing record. Post-68 Veale and Bolin were league-average or worse. It was a screwy season all around - only 5 hitters batted 300 and nobody haqd a 400 OBP and only three slugged 500 or better, with McCovey topping the list at 520. Only a single player drove in 100 runs, and nobody scored 100. It led to lowering of pitching mounds and certain other changes that launched the much more balanced '70s (before things starting moving in the opposite direction in the '80s and '90s).

I wasn't alive then, but I am kind of obsessed with 1968. I wonder if people watching it at the time enjoyed it or if it was boring?

Imagine if Koufax had lasted two more years. It's staggering to imagine what kind of numbers he'd have put up that year.