All three major league Cabreras (Melky, Orlando and Miguel) hit home runs yesterday. Melky hit a grand slam.

Why was he so underrated? Why was he traded so often? Why don’t you hear his name today? I’ll tell you why. Because he called everybody ‘dickhead.’ To Alex Johnson, baseball was a whole world of dickheads.
– Dick Allen, talking about Alex Johnson in his book Crash

Guest writer Mitchel Lichtman explains how the American League really is that much better than the National League in Part 1 of a three-part series.

Contracts and Front Office News

Aaron recaps the fun he had at the 36th annual Society for American Baseball Research convention in Seattle.

There’s a logjam at first place in the National League West; four of five NL West teams have 43 wins.

Steve takes a close look at the very different rates of effectiveness pitchers demonstrate when working out of the bullpen, as compared to when starting.

Studes compares the two best young pitchers in the major leagues, using the graphs of Fangraphs.

Rick’s weekly chronicle of the latest major league injuries.

It was Opposite Day in the majors, as teams with records over .500 won only 5 games and lost 11, and teams over .550 were 1-6.