Bio: My name is Matt Swartz, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and I will be completing my degree this Spring. In my dissertation, I have applied economic theory to study dating and marriage, as a metaphor for how learning and matching work together. Meanwhile, I have gotten…
Bio: I’ve been a stats-geek since before Bill James started self-publishing Abstracts, and have been a Prospectus subscriber for about ten years now. Recently, I’ve written for Seamheads, StatSpeak and FanGraphs, and am waiting for the call up to the big leagues. My personal interests and writing have focused on statistical analysis, and I must…
Bio: My name is Byron Lescroart and I am a 26-year old living in New York City. Sparing you too many specifics, I was born and raised a Mets fan in Princeton, New Jersey as the oldest of five children. My four younger siblings are all girls. Yes, I have four sisters. I attended Georgetown…
Bio: My name is Ken Funck, and I live with my wife and two children in Madison, Wisconsin, a wonderful place I didn’t have the heart to leave after getting my English/Creative Writing degree from the University of Wisconsin. I’m a third-generation fan of the Chicago Cubs, but I’m not one of those Cubs fans;…
The 10 contestants in the contest, and the one who has to depart having only just gotten here.
The divisions with the strongest combinations of teams, and those with the weakest complements of clubs.
The Orioles Hall of Famer discusses his contemporaries, solo home runs, commanding the strike zone, and… solo home runs,
Reports on the Indians, Cardinals, and Pirates, Ryan Zimmerman takes a walk, plus news and notes from around the game.
The success of a team’s relief corps depends much more on specifics than it does on general results.
Javier Vazquez has driven lesser men to madness, but staring too long need not blind us to his virtues.
Is the young Marlins hurler finally coming into his own after too much time on the shelf?
The early leaders start losing space on their initial sprints as the packs start congealing in both leagues.