If the heart of your order is looking like this, it’s time to stock up on the digitalis.

“I remember when he hit that last wall. I can still see it. He hit it flush on, boom, and he slumped right down, and that was his Waterloo.”
– Carl Furillo, talking about Pete Reiser in Bums, by Peter Golenbock.

The good-but-might-have-been-better batters have been away for a while. It’s time we got caught up.

Which is the better pitch: an 87-mph fastball on the outside corner or 96 down the middle? John has a look using (of course) PITCHf/x.

Answering your questions on whose performances so far are for real

Decoding the early goings of good teams.

From 1958 to 1975, the Dodgers never raised their ticket prices. Not once.

How do things change with the pitcher on deck?

New technology lets us explore longstanding baseball questions