Archive for September 2009

Brewers 3, Cubs 2: Prince Fielder pads his stats with a homer and a couple of RBI. It’s easy to forget in all of the Cub-drama that Chicago is actually a few games ahead of Milwaukee in the standings. Astros 3, Cardinals 0: And look! The Cubs are technically still alive! If St. Louis just […]

What’s Werth worth?

South Atlantic and Midwest League hardware is being handed out, and some of the brightest young stars in the game are the recipients.

Reliever man meets Retrosheet meticulousness meets recent metric.

TUCK! toons goodness every Thursday

The sale of the Chicago Cubs has been finalized.

So I stayed in Calistoga, California for a couple of nights during my trip. Nice town. It’s also where Tom Seaver lives. Note: don’t go telling shopkeepers in Calistoga that you’re looking for Tom Seaver. They tend not to take kindly to out of towners stalking the locals. Anyway: The Mets clean la casa Bobby […]

Flew in from San Francisco B.O.A.C., didn’t get to bed Monday night. That means I was completely out of it by, oh, 8PM last night and didn’t get to ATH as usual. Here’s the express edition, however: Rockies 11, Padres 10: It’s long been obvious that the Rockies are charmed this year, but when they […]

Since his no-hitter in 2007, Clay Buchholz has been a mixed bag of inconsistent and occasionally brilliant. Going forward, is he to be trusted, or have his last few weeks been an aberration?

Who the heck is Lance Richbourg?