A slow week in the transaction market leads to the signing of Pedro Astacio as one of the week’s largest. Bryan has the dirty details in his latest installment.

Change one thing, change everything.

Up is down, down is up, and Neifi Perez is an All-Star.

A couple of big deals demand analysis, and Bryan looks at them from all the angles.

The White Sox and Mariners completed baseball’s second big trade in the last week, as Freddy Garcia heads to Chicago and one of baseball’s top prospects goes to Seattle.

Larry and Ben discuss the importance of this week’s Red Sox/Yankees series.

Bryan offers his take on the week’s transactions, which include a trade, an extension, a free agent signing, and a superstar’s return.

There were many different scenarios under which MLB might have captured its new markets over the past half century. Steve offers a virtual history in which all existing markets (and then some) are served, with only one franchise relocation ever occurring. It’s a scenario sure to please all except greedy soulless millionaires. Oh, and lovers of the Wild Card, Interleague Play, the DH, or artificial turf.

Now that ESPN is tracking Productive Outs, Larry takes one last look at the junk stat.

The second installment of Matthew’s look at what things would look like if everyone had just stayed put.