My thoughts on using waiver priorities and my FAAB budget.

Got to be good lookin’ ’cause he’s so hard to see.

A PITCHf/x profile of two Rule 5 picks—Donald Veal and David Patton.

Another look at a fantasy player’s roster.

A link to this week’s roundtable discussion on who will be 2009’s Ryan Ludwick and Cliff Lee.

It didn’t come here, but I’m off the clock at NBC and it’s the kind of thing that sparks good discussions on ShysterBall. In response to my post criticizing baseball for making all players wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson day, reader Web-Gem had this to say: This is not a “tribute”, this is MLB’s […]

They didn’t cut corners anywhere else on Yankee Stadium, so why start with the artwork? Art broker Tracie Speca has been working 16-hour days for the past six weeks to install 1,300 vintage photographs worth a total of at least $5 million in the stadium’s clubs, hallways and restaurants. Ms. Speca saved whimsical images for […]

In 2002, Tom Hicks famously sat on the deck of his yacht — less than a year after signing Alex Rodriguez to a $250 million contract, mind you — and excoriated fellow owners for not being more careful with their money. The levels of hypocrisy there were already off the charts, but it has only […]

Ex-baseball blogger, noted presidential historian, world class librarian, vehement Cleveland-hater, and longtime ShysterBall reader Bob Timmerman left a comment in ATH this morning about Orlando Hudson hitting for the cycle: You forget that Dodgers fans had almost been like the Jews in the desert traveling to the Promised Land with the cycle. It had been […]

I don’t know much about what goes into deciding where All-Star games are held, but I can’t recall the process being subject to intense, Olympic-style lobbying, can you? The Reds are pursuing an All-Star date for 2013, Karen Forgus, the club’s senior vice president of business operations, said on Monday. “We’re pushing hard on it,” […]