15,000 days ago, Giants ace Juan Marichal achieved a notable milestone, winning his 200th game. Many pitchers have won 200 games, including Tim Wakefield earlier this month, but Marichal’s 200th win was a bit more interesting than most. His record was rather unusual for a 200-game winner. You see, Marichal claimed his 200th win before […]

THT’s Jeff Gross plans a comprehensive Moneyball review for early next week, so be sure to check that out. In the meantime, an advance screening provided an opportunity for me to see the movie before it debuts this Friday, so I thought I’d share some quick thoughts on the film. The fact that this effort […]

Watching the first inning of Tuesday’s Rays/Yankees game, I noticed Wade Davis bounce a fastball during a sequence against Alex Rodriguez. That’s certainly not something you’ll see too often, so I checked my PITCH-f/x data to see how often fastball are thrown in the dirt. Gameday identifies pitches in the dirt with a “ball in […]

Orioles 7, Red Sox 5: Guess that visit from Ric Flair didn’t pay off, eh?  It’s possible, I suppose, that the visit wasn’t from the man in his awesome Nature Boy persona, but rather, was the real life Ric Flair, who is pretty damn pathetic. Anyway, sure, Tampa Bay lost too and if these teams […]

25 years ago today, San Diego starting pitcher Jimmy Jones nearly made a debut for the ages—but was prevented a memorable bit of history in the most improbable of manners. In a game against the Astros on Sept. 21, 1986, Jones hurled his first pitch from the big league mound and looked to be a […]

After his 41st home run on Monday afternoon in a 6-4 win over Minnesota, Yankees slugger Curtis Granderson has seemingly furthered his case for the American League MVP award. However, sabermetricians and the stats of past prolific Yankees home run hitters over the 21st century would show that Granderson is not worthy of the award. […]

Marlins 6, Braves 5: It’s all so fitting, isn’t it? Omar Infante — Braves All-Star representative in 2010 and the chit that went Florida’s way in the big trade that was supposed to improve the team — killing ’em with a walkoff homer? The Braves single greatest weapon this year, Craig Kimbrel, blowing the lead?  If […]

Rays 8, Red Sox 5: Tim Wakefield got a lot of love for his 200th win last week. But it didn’t change the fact that Tim Wakefield doesn’t have a whole hell of a lot left. Now only two games separate these two in the wild card race. And the Rays-love has gotten so crazy […]

Twenty-five years ago today, baseball experienced one of its most noteworthy type of games, the no-hitter. But the one that happened exactly a quarter century ago wasn’t any old no-hitter. No, this one was special. It was one of the most poorly thrown no-hitters of all-time. In a White Sox-Angels game on Sept. 19, 1986, […]

Recently, writers have been revisiting Tony Reagins’ worst trade, Mike Napoli and Juan Rivera for Vernon Wells. On Friday, our own Shlomo Sprung praised the Rangers for jumping in and winning the trade in a big way. They say hindsight is 20/20, and in this case foresight was at least 20/30. Wells isn’t a particularly […]