THT talks to Vince Gennaro about the economy’s effect on baseball.

A look back at the Rocky Mountain career of Clint Hurdle.

Diamondbacks 9, Padres 6: Whenever you see a game this long — 18 innings in case you missed it — there are always some fun stat lines that shake out. An 0-6 (Giles); a 1-8 with five strikeouts (Headley). Then there’s the “so long, suckers” line, which belongs to David Eckstein. Herr Scrappy sits on […]

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Free Falling! The Royals have dropped from 91 to 81 to 71 in just two weeks.

That’s the rumor, anyway: The Braves already have made moves to augment their rotation, calling up super prospect Tommy Hanson to make his major league debut on Sunday, after summoning Kris Medlen last month. But Atlanta might not be done adding pitching. Atlanta is one of the teams in conversation with the Boston Red Sox […]

Don’t yell at me. I’m just repeatin’ the headline. Man, if even He’s only two thirds of the way there, maybe Randy Johnson will be the last guy to win 300 games. (thanks to reader Ralph D. for the link)

According to Tom, this is how it went down: Glavine said that he had expected all along to playing in Atlanta this weekend following a rehab schedule in the minors. “I would pitch the simulated game that I pitched at Turner Field, I would then pitch a 3- or 4-inning stint in Gwinnett, followed by […]

Most of the commentariat is still wondering what’s wrong with Papi. Sox fan Russ Smith is on to the next question: The real question is how Boston’s normally sober and calculating general manager Theo Epstein is going to negotiate Ortiz’s exit from Fenway Park. He’s in a real bind: when Epstein dispatched onetime Sox legend […]

Posnanksi has a big piece (not that he ever writes small ones) about trading draft picks. In it he cites yesterday’s Jayson Stark article approvingly, with a nod back at my comments about Stark. Two things: (1) Just to be clear, I don’t necessarily disagree with Stark’s overall “the draft it broken” argument. I think […]