Maybe it’s just that they got rid of the wrong Barry …

As Benjamin Disraeli once noted, “there is no education like adversity.”

The Pirates won’t be contenders this year, but new management and Andrew McCutchen give fans something to look forward to.

The 2009 Indians have question marks in the rotation, in the outfield and at the DH. Ryan looks at what needs to go right for the Indians to contend.

If you thought “Official Luxury Car of the New York Yankees” was too much, get a load of what they’re doing in Milwaukee: Every Milwaukee Brewers fan knows what Bernie Brewer does after every home run: He slides down a slide. But in an era where everything is for sale, the Brewers have managed to […]

A look at which players have wound up on my fantasy teams most frequently.

Remember the Japanese schoolgirl (hello search engine-driven hits!) who got drafted to pitch in that independent league? She has made her debut: Japan’s first female professional baseball player made her debut Friday, striking out one batter in the ninth inning. Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old who throws a sidearm knuckleball, took the mound during Kobe 9 […]

Allen Barra lays the lumber to Derek Jeter: This will be Jeter’s 14th season (not counting 1995, when he only played 15 games), and judging from the blogs and radio call-in shows, Yankee fans are assuming that he is a walking Hall of Famer, but I don’t necessarily think that’s true. If he pulled a […]

Yesterday I ran two posts about potential unrest in the Land of the Lords of the Realm. You can read them here and here. Upshot: even billionaire playboys are not immune to the current economic downturn, and in fact they are particularly vulnerable if they either (a) depend on real estate for their fortune or […]

I felt a great disturbance in the fantasy baseball Force, as if millions of Matt Wieters owners cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced: The Orioles told top prospect Matt Wieters on Thursday that he will be reassigned to the Triple-A Norfolk roster effective Monday. Manager Dave Trembley met with Wieters after Thursday’s exhibition […]