Archive for the 'Commentary' Category

Greg takes a look at those ever-changing numbers known as HRPF.

I don’t know what you are talking about, we’ve been doing these all along.

Some days, baseball ownership makes Mos Eisley look like the Garden of Eden.

J.P. uses Win Shares Above Bench to break down the season’s best players and teams at every position.

Jeff looks at the first picks in the 2006 amateur draft and considers how this year’s class will look in June 2008.

Jack Cust is a nice story. But what if he’s more than that? What if Cust represents what happens when an organization (or a few of them) gives up on a player before he reaches his prime physically, puts it all together, and actually gets another chance—this time with the skills and experience to succeed?

What can a case study of Barry Zito and Zack Greinke and the application of scouting breakdowns of “hard hit balls” tell us about a pitcher’s ability to prevent hits?

John revists the THT division projections, prediction markets and PROTRADE for the AL Central.

The increased Latin presence in MLB isn’t due to control, but cost control

On June 4, 1907 George Washington was born. No, not that George Washington, obviously, but the brief career of the man born Sloan Vernon Washington does give us a chance to discuss the many players christened wholly or in part for our nation’s leaders.