All of the cool kids are on their way to the SABR convention in D.C., so I’m doing a little extra duty over at the Blue Network this morning: Vin Scully, legend; Bill Plaschke, idiot. Dustin Pedroia will tell you: length doesn’t matter. Nats Park gets more expensive. Dice-K is starting to get the beatdown […]

Padres 3, Reds 2: If the recaps suffer a bit today it’s because I was at a bar saying goodbye to a good friend last night (a friend longtime ShysterBall readers will remember, actually). Mark and I used to work at the same law firm together, and once I left at the end of last […]

A look at year-to-year correlations for 25 hitting stats.

Second verse, same as the first… only older.

Mantle and Robinson meet in the 1952 World Series. I think.

Is that it overshadows what — if true — would have been one of the most astounding things to ever take place in the history of baseball: So now here stands Minaya, unofficially at war with one of the main papers that covers his team, which is hardly in the Mets’ interest. His judgment is […]

Here’s a topic that will interest all the little shysterlings among you: It’s surprising how often America’s national pastime, baseball, finds itself snugly entrenched with the country’s second-favorite hobby, litigation. Over the years a number of baseball incidents and disputes have found their way into courtrooms. Here are five examples . . . . . […]

No, the White Sox didn’t reconsider. The Red Sox actually traded for him: The Red Sox today traded for righthanded hitting White Sox outfielder Brian Anderson, sending Mark Kotsay to Chicago in return. Anderson, who is hitting .238 with two homers on the season, was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte on July 20. Kotsay was designated […]

Debbie Schlussel is of the obnoxious, attention-whoring, race-baiting school of political commentary. And good for her. The First Amendment wasn’t made just for reasonable people. And though I find just about everything that she and people like her spout to be cynical at best, deplorable and hateful at worst, a certain part of my psyche […]

So I’m reading the AP game story from the Phillies-Diamondbacks game last night, and I come across this sentence: Jamie Moyer allowed seven baserunners before recording an out in the third inning. Somehow, none of them scored. Upon reading it, I had to go back to the play-by-play to see just how Moyer got out […]