The Braves’ director of baseball administration talks about his team and its hopes for the upcoming season.
In the sixth installment of this series, Derrick Loop, a pitcher in the Padres organization, returns to talk about a housing option available to many minor-league players, the host family. DERRICK LOOP: Making a rather menial wage, ball players look for many ways to save money while they play. What many teams have turned to are host families. These are typically…
Ah, MLB.com. It so really, really wants to be taken seriously as an independent news site — even going so far as to end every article carries the tagline “This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs,” hoping to convince you that despite being owned by MLB, it’s…
Imagine a black line tracing every Mariano Rivera pitch over the foot long distance before home plate. Imagine you are looking from the bird's-eye view and up is toward the mound. That's what mastery looks like, my friends. Do you remember Hee-Seop Choi? He was traded for Derrek Lee once. R.J. the Wunderkind provides this…
Cherry-picking rays of sunshine to fend off doom and gloom in Flushing?
There are reasons why E-BABIP’s projections don’t always agree with those of PECOTA.
MLB’s mobile technology is as good or better than the NFL’s, but generates far less revenue.
The three-time defending champion Angels will have payroll flexibility after this season.
No Bowdens, Bumgarners, or Flowers a-blooming, not even the sound of Mike Stanton’s bat booming.
Cito Gaston gets ready for his last season in the dugout, Marlins skipper Fredi Gonzalez talks strategy, plus other MLB news.
What’s to be done with the last albatross left north of the border?
Who ranks among the best and worst in this seemingly unpredictable yet key metric?
For Chris Herrmann, spring training is a new experience. One year ago, the 22-year-old infielder turned catcher was at the University of Miami, soon to be taken in the sixth round of the June draft by the Twins. Now he’s in Fort Myers, not only preparing for his first full professional season, but also acclimating…
Phil Birnbaum has a good reminder of the difference between frequentist and Bayesian statistics. The central Bayesian insight is that you need information about the world as it exists "prior" to the test. For example, if we want to know how a Triple-A player with certain statistics will perform in the major leagues, we need…
Can the 1-2 punch atop Detroit’s lineup better last year’s mediocre performance?
Figuring out what the book is is the current challenge.