If there’s no such thing as a pitching prospect, why can’t we keep them off our lists?
How can the Diamondbacks content for another title if their bullpen continues to falter?
In the game I’m watching as I try and come up with a column, Shane Spencer just hit a three-run home run off of Mike Morgan to turn a 6-2 Diamondbacks lead into 6-5. Monday night, Spencer hit an eighth-inning grand slam off of Bret Prinz to turn a 4-3 deficit into a 7-4 lead…
If there’s no such thing as a pitching prospect, why can’t we keep them off our lists? Fourteen of Baseball Prospectus‘s Top 40 Prospects are pitchers. Of the 15 players receiving honorable mention, six are pitchers. John Sickels has 22 pitchers listed in his top 50, with three more who would make it if they…
I’m sick of the whole Roger Clemens thing. It’s a non-story, inflated beyond that by a local media corps with the judgment and control of a four-year-old on his second box of Froot Loops. Yes, Clemens bounced a fastball off of the shoulder pad Bonds wears on his right arm. Bonds crowds the plate, crushes pitches out over it and sticks said well-protected arm into the strike zone. Where exactly would you have Clemens pitch him?
Looking at which length of a plate appearance favors the hitter, the pitcher, or neither
This week’s question comes from Don Coffin, who asks: I was watching a game on TV the other day and wondered whether a longer at-bat favors the hitter, in terms of its final outcome. More specifically, how do things like BA/OBP/SLG differ with the number of pitches in an at-bat? Thanks for the great question,…
Maybe I’m getting cranky in my old age, but I’m really starting to get sick of the way New York stories get blown way out of proportion and become national stories for no good reason. Remember, I’m from New York, and identify myself as a New Yorker. Love the town, love the people, hate the…
The funniest, wackiest, and weirdest quotes from around MLB in the last week
A recap of all transactions from the last three days
Despite the odd Jeremy Giambi for John Mabry spot, the A’s are on an offensive tear
About three weeks ago, the A’s made the weirdest trade of the year, swapping left fielder and OBP guy Jeremy Giambi to the Phillies for fringe major leaguer John Mabry. There seemed to be little justification for the trade; the stated reasons-defense, Mabry’s clubhouse presence, the desire to clear at-bats for Adam Piatt-were weak, and…
RICKEY LEADS OFF "I really don’t snack in the dugout. Seeds are going to make us fat. I tried them, but they’re really not that good for me. I am always telling everyone to lay off the seeds or else they’ll be getting fat. There’s fat in those seeds. And they always say ‘Right, there’s…
With interleague play opening today, Keith Woolner assembled some data on how pitchers and DHs have done over the four seasons of cross-circuit play.