Remember back in January when I told you about the tell-all memoir by former Angels farm hand Matt McCarthy? Yeah, it seems like there may be less there than meets the eye: Matt McCarthy, a graduate of Yale and of Harvard Medical School now working as an intern in the residency program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital […]

Things to read while taking full advantage of the extra three days the Civil Rules give you for responding to a brief that was served by regular mail: Victor Wang ranks the farm systems. Victor’s approach is different than many you’ll see in that he weighs multiple prospect lists first, and works from there. I’m […]

Arbitration season is over, but it’s never too late to learn neat things. To that end, Squawking Baseball has an interview with John Coppolella, the Director of Baseball Administration for the Atlanta Braves, who holds forth on everything you wanted to know about arbitration but were afraid to ask. Among other interesting tidbits: Once the […]

Neyer today shoots down the contraction whispers re: the A’s and Marlins. His basis: lack of necessity and politics: What’s more, even if both franchises were utter wrecks they still wouldn’t be serious candidates for contraction. No franchise would be. It was, what, eight years ago when this spectre was first raised, regarding the Twins […]

I was a D.J. at a radio station for a few years in high school and college. Within the first few days on the air, I started to get hate mail and people calling to yell at me. I was only 16 at the time, and this bothered me a great deal. My boss, Bob […]

It’s a press release, sure, but it’s one that made me wish I had MLB Network: On Monday, March 2 at 9:00 p.m. ET, MLB Network will debut the first-ever original film from MLB Productions, We Are Young: A Baseball Family, the story of MLB players and brothers Dmitri and Delmon Young, who overcame personal […]

Scott Simkus is taken with a story/press release from the Louisville Slugger Museum about the bat used by Negro Leaguer George “Mule” Suttles. Apparently he swung a 37-inch, 50 ounce stick. Mercy. *I changed the name of this post because some people questioned whether I was going for a joke based on a racial stereotype. […]

If you believe in signs and portents, it’s going to be a long year for Braden Looper: The Milwaukee right-hander was scratched from his Cactus League debut after feeling tightness in his left oblique muscle near the end of his bullpen warm-up. Looper, signed as a free agent just before the start of spring training, […]

I don’t usually post on weekends, but this weekend I did. In case you missed it: Late Friday evening I had two posts on the postponement of the Barry Bonds trial: This one with my prediction of what might happen in light of the prosecutions’ appeal, and this one scratching my head at ESPN’s Lester […]

Brett Favre — er, I mean Curt Schilling — wants to keep playing: Curt Schilling likes to break curses. The Chicago Cubs have had one for over a century. Could it be the perfect match? Schilling said Saturday that he’d like to pitch for the Cubs this season. The 42-year-old missed the 2008 season with […]