The Yankees are moving their stuff today: Friday is moving day in the Bronx and, no, the crates don’t have pinstripes. Eighty-six years after moving in, the New York Yankees are moving out. The team’s front office will move across the street Friday to the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium, which is nearing completion and […]

Several people notified me of the following development yesterday: President Obama moved swiftly to engage on the Middle East on Wednesday, calling Israeli and Arab leaders on his first morning in office and preparing to appoint a seasoned peace negotiator and former senator, George J. Mitchell, as his special emissary to the region . . […]

If you’re like me, you can’t bring yourself to pay 50 cents for a copy of the rags they write for, so I’m having trouble getting my mind around paying $225 to have dinner with them: Tickets remain on sale for this Sunday’s New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America dinner at […]

Everything you ever wanted to know about waivers but were afraid to ask. Well, not everything, but an awful lot for a mainstream news article.

Things to to read as you ponder the disconnect between the nice things people say about you after you die and the occasionally nasty person you were while you were alive: In This Annotated Week in Baseball History, Richard Barbieri uses Alan Benes’ birthday as an excuse to look at “the other brother” of great […]

In the last post I called Matt Wieters “the best prospect in baseball.” Know how I know that? Because Keith Law’s Top 100 is up, and Wieters is listed number one. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have 99 more to read. As do you.

Orioles fans, meet the man who, for a while at least, will be blocking your dreams from coming true: Gregg Zaun returned to the team that drafted him in 1989, finalizing a $2 million, one-year contract with the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. The 37-year-old Zaun is expected to replace Ramon Hernandez as the starting catcher, […]

I don’t highlight a reader comment every day, but “Comment of the past 10-12 days or so” doesn’t fit in the title bar. Anyway, here’s The Common Man’s response to that knucklehead in the Daily News who wrote “But I say Kent cannot be looked at as a second baseman”: He also can’t be looked […]

Aaron Gleeman and Rotoworld are looking for scribes: Rotoworld is looking for writers to join the staff as paid, part-time contributors for the upcoming baseball season. Previous writing experience is an absolute must, as is significant knowledge of and passion for both baseball and fantasy baseball. Qualified applicants would work under baseball editors Aaron Gleeman […]

Jason at IIATMS continues his Commish for a Day series, and this time he asks the opinion of a real piece of work.