Stuff I spewed this morning: Offense is up this year. What’s to blame? Cito Gaston is a hands-off kind of guy, and it’s working just fine. It’s going to be really funny later this summer when the Yankees are running away with the East and, rather than crediting the return of A-Rod, the resurgence of […]

From the AJC’s story about how the Braves shuffling their lineup worked wonders last night: Every batter in the lineup recorded a hit except Jeff Francoeur, including pitcher Jair Jurrjens. And Francoeur got breaks, if not hits. His potential double-play groundball in the second inning drew an error that opened the door to a three-run […]

Retrosheet now has every box score and play-by-play log from the 1920s.

Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury-News, lamenting the fact that the Selena Roberts book isn’t selling all that well: It does confirm one of my beliefs, however. There’s a perception that fans love to read dirt about famous athletes. Maybe they do, on salacious Web sites full of half-truths — but not in well-reported […]

Tigers 4, Rangers 0: Dontrelle Willis goes six and a third, shutting out a good Rangers team on one hit while striking out five. You can’t help but hope that this means D-Train is back on the tracks to stay, because baseball is more fun with him in it. Royals 6, Indians 5: Whoa. The […]

I know I’ve been doing this a lot lately but I swear, on the lives of my children, that this will be the last day I punt for a while. But punt I must. This morning my daughter is graduating from preschool and I simply wouldn’t miss that, even if it is weird that schools […]

Rockies 5, Braves 1: The word “outdueled” should not appear within 50 yards of Jason Marquis, but there it is in the AP writeup. Even when he pitches well he sort of just bulls his way through the game, with none of the grace implied by a word like “dueled.” As for the Braves, Mac […]

This sounds like a fabulous idea: The Reading Phillies are looking for big eaters to attend Gluttony Night when the New Britain Rock Cats (Twins) visit FirstEnergy Stadium on Tuesday, May 19 for a 6:35 PM game. For just $12.00 fans can eat as much as they want from the time the gates open at […]

The most protracted sale in the history of team sports is rounding third and racing, er, jogging, er, kind of shuffling for home! Chicago Cubs buyer Tom Ricketts is close to lining up three banks to arrange the $450 million financing necessary to complete his acquisition of the team, financial sources said, positioning him to […]

Great stuff from Lar at Wezen-Ball, as he goes back to 1992 and re-runs the Marlns/Rockies expansion draft with the benefit of hindsight and adds a couple of choice free agent signings for good measure: What is the Internet good for, though, if we can’t take the time to figure this out ourselves? So I […]