Arbitration season is over, but it’s never too late to learn neat things. To that end, Squawking Baseball has an interview with John Coppolella, the Director of Baseball Administration for the Atlanta Braves, who holds forth on everything you wanted to know about arbitration but were afraid to ask. Among other interesting tidbits: Once the […]

Neyer today shoots down the contraction whispers re: the A’s and Marlins. His basis: lack of necessity and politics: What’s more, even if both franchises were utter wrecks they still wouldn’t be serious candidates for contraction. No franchise would be. It was, what, eight years ago when this spectre was first raised, regarding the Twins […]

I was a D.J. at a radio station for a few years in high school and college. Within the first few days on the air, I started to get hate mail and people calling to yell at me. I was only 16 at the time, and this bothered me a great deal. My boss, Bob […]

It’s a press release, sure, but it’s one that made me wish I had MLB Network: On Monday, March 2 at 9:00 p.m. ET, MLB Network will debut the first-ever original film from MLB Productions, We Are Young: A Baseball Family, the story of MLB players and brothers Dmitri and Delmon Young, who overcame personal […]

Scott Simkus is taken with a story/press release from the Louisville Slugger Museum about the bat used by Negro Leaguer George “Mule” Suttles. Apparently he swung a 37-inch, 50 ounce stick. Mercy. *I changed the name of this post because some people questioned whether I was going for a joke based on a racial stereotype. […]

If you believe in signs and portents, it’s going to be a long year for Braden Looper: The Milwaukee right-hander was scratched from his Cactus League debut after feeling tightness in his left oblique muscle near the end of his bullpen warm-up. Looper, signed as a free agent just before the start of spring training, […]

I don’t usually post on weekends, but this weekend I did. In case you missed it: Late Friday evening I had two posts on the postponement of the Barry Bonds trial: This one with my prediction of what might happen in light of the prosecutions’ appeal, and this one scratching my head at ESPN’s Lester […]

Brett Favre — er, I mean Curt Schilling — wants to keep playing: Curt Schilling likes to break curses. The Chicago Cubs have had one for over a century. Could it be the perfect match? Schilling said Saturday that he’d like to pitch for the Cubs this season. The 42-year-old missed the 2008 season with […]

Everyone figured Jim Bowden wasn’t long for this world, and as you probably saw, over the weekend he resigned. Tom Boswell comes to bury Caesar, not to praise him: Jim Bowden was never going to be the Nationals’ ultimate general manager, the man who, the franchise hoped, would oversee a potential champion. His methods were […]

Summer 2007: Posada kicks butt Fall 2007: Posada signs gigantic contract 2008-onward: Posada breaks down: Yankees catcher Jorge Posada said the new soreness in his surgically repaired right shoulder was nothing to worry about. But there was enough concern within the Yankees’ medical staff for Manager Joe Girardi to scratch Posada from the lineup for […]