Why was he so underrated? Why was he traded so often? Why don’t you hear his name today? I’ll tell you why. Because he called everybody ‘dickhead.’ To Alex Johnson, baseball was a whole world of dickheads.
– Dick Allen, talking about Alex Johnson in his book Crash

There’s a logjam at first place in the National League West; four of five NL West teams have 43 wins.

Studes compares the two best young pitchers in the major leagues, using the graphs of Fangraphs.

It was Opposite Day in the majors, as teams with records over .500 won only 5 games and lost 11, and teams over .550 were 1-6.

The National League gets the hang of this interleague thing just as the interleague schedule comes to a close.

Dizzy Dean loved being called Dizzy, but his brother, Paul, hated being called Daffy. Can’t say that I blame him.

A-Rod is Mr. Clutch for at least a day and Ryan Howard hits two more home runs to take the major league lead with 27.

Roger Clemens gets no run support again, and a trade!

David Ortiz with a game-winning RBI. Again.

The National League is tops, at least for one day.