Where Fernando Valenzuela, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Seuss collide.

A review of the Peter Schilling Jr. novel

A look at how age affects pitchers’ fastball speed using PITCHf/x data

Do teams know more about their own prospects than other teams do?

Don’t touch that dial! Stay tuned for Treder’s take on a tome about teams on the tube.

The inner workings of a slider, plus a few more words on curveballs.

The Pujols Awards went on the DL this week, so to teach you a lesson about making nominations I’m subjecting you all to another rant! I have a big, opinionated mouth and I’m not afraid to use it.

This week’s awards tells you about how Dice K loses his command and gets away with it, how there are no elite AL hitters, and how Lance Berkman is doing just a little better than he was doing at this time last year.

A look at what attributes of a curveball makes it effective.

Picking apart what may be the best pitching prospect in baseball…