Archive for July 2008

Some of the more questionable All-Star reserve selections of the past 30 years.

Forecasting isn’t as easy as it may appear

On July 9, 1851 Red Woodhead was born. Red saw only minor time during the early days of baseball, but commenced a tradition of July 9 being the birthday of, shall we say, intriguingly named players. Richard looks at some.

Our authors discuss the Sabathia and Harden deals.

Part 3, from Carlos Gutierrez (Twins) to Evan Frederickson (Brewers).

Fliners, foul balls and more.

A new stat uses HitTracker to project the number of home runs a player should hit

Clearly the erstwhile Dread Pirate Roberts was a Blue Jays fan.

Johnny Vander Meer and his two consecutive no-hitters.