The Japanese players to watch this week down in Durham, North Carolina.
Your daily fix of injury news, including updates on Chris Carpenter, Huston Street, A.J. Burnett, Oliver Perez, and Tom Gordon.
Good things come in threes, like bags on triples, or thousands of hits.
The hot and heavy pursuit of Mark Buehrle has Joe pondering another strike-thrower we probably don’t say enough good things about.
Applying statistical tools to defensive performance is often the quickest way to a fight between traditional baseball minds and performance analysts. At the team level, however, you can learn a lot.
Christina returns to cover the swaps and the shake-ups.
A record, a resignation, and Vin Scully’s habits come up in this week’s quotables.
Mike looks at how home teams and visiting teams are impacted by different umpires.
John picks his All-Star team, the Brewers lead the NL Central, and Dave Trembley has a chance in Baltimore.
The latest on Reggie Willits, Rich Harden, Randy Johnson, Tom Gordon, Reed Johnson, and Yovani Gallardo.
Jim proposes a solution to what might just be the greatest problem facing baseball today.
Jay takes a macro look at where every club in the majors stands as we near the All-Star Break.
Frank Thomas and Craig Biggio reached statistical markers Friday. Just don’t think they needed them to make Cooperstown.
The White Sox seem to have decided to keep Mark Buehrle rather than deal him to a contender. Is this the right call?
Nate examines the effect of performance and team on the current state of the All-Star voting process.
Parsing the data can help us address questions of bias among umpires in calling balls and strikes.