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March 8, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Going Streaking

by Russell A. Carleton

Putting a big chill on the hot-hand theory of player performance at the plate.

March 1, 2010

Baseball Therapy: The Sixth Tool

by Russell A. Carleton

What's really in that major-league makeup case?

February 22, 2010

Baseball Therapy: That Peak Age Thing, Part 2

by Russell A. Carleton

Pitchers, unlike hitters, have no discernible pattern for reaching their peaks but they do often flame out quickly.

February 15, 2010

Baseball Therapy: That Peak Age Thing, Part 1

by Russell A. Carleton

Dispelling the idea that all hitters reach their prime at the same age.

February 8, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Why Not Two Pitchers?

by Russell A. Carleton

Alternating left-handed and right-handed relievers by temporarily shifting them to the outfield is an old strategy to reconsider.

February 1, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Profiling a Manager, Part 3

by Russell A. Carleton

A skipper's impact on offense generates some interesting results about who does and does not help his hitters hack.

January 25, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Profiling a Manager, Part 2

by Russell A. Carleton

Adventures in the anti-save and keeping games close late.

January 18, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Profiling a Manager, Part 1

by Russell A. Carleton

Evaluating thievery as a choice for tactical gain and profit.

January 15, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Free Agency Personals, Part Two

by Russell A. Carleton

Utility sounds handy, and everyone likes speed, but is a speedy utilityman the answer to your needs?

January 8, 2010

Baseball Therapy: Free-agency Personals

by Russell A. Carleton

What if Aubrey Huff could just give you the short sales pitch about his best qualities?

January 4, 2010

Baseball Therapy: The Culture Club

by Russell A. Carleton

A culture of winning is one of the best things to have, and a culture of losing is surely one of the worst, but do such things even exist?

December 28, 2009

Baseball Therapy: 2009 in Numbers

by Russell A. Carleton

With a skim of the season in the books, 30 different ways to reduce a team to a number.

December 20, 2009

Baseball Therapy: Will You Be My Mentor?

by Russell A. Carleton

Examining the possibility that the Nationals may have signed the wrong person to mentor their young pitching staff.

December 15, 2009

Baseball Therapy: Home-Field Advantage

by Russell A. Carleton

What can hunting high and not so high teach us about hitting at home?

December 8, 2009

Baseball Therapy: A Halladay Ultimatum

by Russell A. Carleton

Why the Blue Jays might "get nothing" for Roy Halladay and still come out ahead.