With SIERA on our stat menu, here’s an explanation of why it predicts pitcher performance so well.
Brad Mills brings optimism to the Astros, Nolan Ryan wants 92 wins from the Rangers, plus other major-league notes.
The Red Sox outfield and baserunning instructor reflects on his career as a ballplayer.
Stephen Strasburg serves the Nationals franchise best starting in the minor leagues.
Purging second southpaws, Merced’s finest, a minor trade, and Rule 5 givebacks.
Shawn Hoffman and his buddy Matt have created the most useful Chrome extension yet. Or, Shawn Hoffman have a hot dog with me. The tool allows you search nearly every baseball site in existence for a single player all at once. You can download it here. Baseball-reference is adding new splits, including one for how…
The three-way blockbuster trade with the Tigers and Yankees at the Winter Meetings could pay big dividends for Arizona this season.
Agents can sometimes find clients when they expect it.
Sometimes teams have to bite the bullet and pay players just to go away.
Scott Atchison is familiar with the ups and downs of baseball. A 34-year-old right-hander who is in camp with the Red Sox after spending the last two seasons in Japan, Atchison knows what it feels like to get called up — and sent down. The journeyman reliever has made 53 big-league appearances, with the Mariners…
Minor league players aren't paid very well, as this hilarious video starring outfielder Fernando Perez reminds us. I live in Brooklyn, and I will now be looking out for Fernando Perez, realtor in Park Slope. Minor leaguers did, however, get a raise in their per diem recently. Satchel Price at BtB attempts to put a dollar value…
The full Span, Helton till Hell freezes, and more.
Getting ahead in the count is not necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.
What would happen if players had to stay with the teams who originally drafted or signed them as amateurs?