Award season is coming, and Brian Matusz, Jesus Montero, Desmond Jennings, Jason Heyward, and Madison Bumgarner are making their case for Minor League Player of the Year

How old are the players on your Triple-A affiliate? Does it matter?

In these seasons, if you had been away for awhile, not much.

A closer look at how regression to the mean affects players at the extremes.

New toon Thursdays with TUCK!

So a month or so ago I was asked by the New York Post to review Marty Appel’s new Thurman Munson biography. They sent me the book. I read it. Liked it. I wrote a review. Then I traded the book to Jason at IIATMS for a Chipper Jones jersey he didn’t want anymore (query: […]

As you probably saw today, Joe Posnanski has been offered a Senior Writer gig at SI, and will be leaving permanent employment at the Kansas City Star. Great news for a great writer. One issue, though. Posnanski says he’ll keep the blog. I assume it will stay independent, but one can’t help but think that […]

I’m prepared to admit that there are many reasons to fire J.P. Ricciardi but, contrary to what Heyman says, not trading Roy Halladay is not one of them. As far as I know, there was never a truly great offer on the table for him. The Indians kind of killed the market anyway by taking […]

I’m not really making this a daily feature, but today was a red-letter commenting day, so I have to offer the best: There’s no sense arguing with Craig. He is the “know all, “be all” and “end all” of everything related to “the list” or in existence for that matter and we should bow to […]

Bob Watson is investigating the whole Mota-Fielder incident. Ken Macha: “[Fielder’s] been hit a lot. . . . He doesn’t like when somebody does it on purpose. I don’t blame him. . . . This type of mentality puts everybody in jeopardy. Giving a guy a $500 fine and two-game suspension isn’t enough.” Well, yeah, […]