On Jan. 21, 1972 Alan Benes was born. In his major league career, he would win 29 games, or 126 fewer than his older brother Andy. Richard returns to one of his favorite subjects, looking at the “other brother” of great pitching families.

Hit Tracker reports on the sluggingest high schoolers.

In the last post I called Matt Wieters “the best prospect in baseball.” Know how I know that? Because Keith Law’s Top 100 is up, and Wieters is listed number one. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have 99 more to read. As do you.

Orioles fans, meet the man who, for a while at least, will be blocking your dreams from coming true: Gregg Zaun returned to the team that drafted him in 1989, finalizing a $2 million, one-year contract with the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. The 37-year-old Zaun is expected to replace Ramon Hernandez as the starting catcher, […]

I don’t highlight a reader comment every day, but “Comment of the past 10-12 days or so” doesn’t fit in the title bar. Anyway, here’s The Common Man’s response to that knucklehead in the Daily News who wrote “But I say Kent cannot be looked at as a second baseman”: He also can’t be looked […]

Aaron Gleeman and Rotoworld are looking for scribes: Rotoworld is looking for writers to join the staff as paid, part-time contributors for the upcoming baseball season. Previous writing experience is an absolute must, as is significant knowledge of and passion for both baseball and fantasy baseball. Qualified applicants would work under baseball editors Aaron Gleeman […]

Jason at IIATMS continues his Commish for a Day series, and this time he asks the opinion of a real piece of work.

Thanks to Michael S. Schmidt, I continue to enjoy not having to read Kirk Radomski’s new book. The latest revelation: Officials for Major League Baseball said Wednesday that in the early stages of its steroids-testing program it did not summon players to its offices to tell them they had failed drug tests. The denial came […]

The first thing I usually do in the morning is round up the days’ articles in my “Today at THT” post. When I woke up this morning, however, the posts weren’t there yet. My first assumption: someone had infiltrated Orchid Station and turned that big crank Gleeman installed years ago, and now we find ourselves […]

White Sox fans and owners of the 1983 Fleer set will be interested to know that Ron Kittle is alive and blogging. Only one post up in the last month — that being from yesterday, where he tells us that he’s in Belgium, consulting with Belgian (Belgi? Belgi?) baseball coaches. Not sure exactly what he’s […]