I wanted to get this pop quiz out there before the Cleveland Indians fall out of first place and THT’s resident Tribe fan, Mat Kovach, performs ritualistic seppuku, so it couldn’t wait for the weekend. A significant slump on Cleveland’s part, accompanied by a surge from Detroit, has resulted in the Indians clinging to a […]

Dodgers 6, Phillies 2: It was the first career start for Rubby De La Rosa. I saw him in spring training and man does he have great stuff. His control wasn’t anything to write home about here but he was effective enough over five innings to pick up the win. Also making his first start […]

Greetings from THT Forecasts. I hope your fantasy teams — no doubt constructed with the aid of THT Forecasts! — and favorite MLB teams are doing well. Since THT Forecasts is updated weekly by Brian and Bryan, I decided to quickly and easily compare Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for position players between (1) their pre-season […]

It’s hard to look at a line of .342/.435/.623 for an 18-year-old in the Sally League and find fault. However, go beyond the ridiculous numbers and we see that is the case with Washington Nationals farmhand Bryce Harper. Harper is playing with Class A Hagerstown, and making a mockery of it. He has 14 home […]

Phillies 3, Dodgers 1: Cliff Lee hadn’t been looking like Cliff Lee lately. In this one, he looked like Cliff Lee (7 IP, 7 H, 0 ER, 10K).  Dee Gordon made his major league debut. He was inserted as a pinch runner in the ninth inning, took third on a single and then scored the […]

Seventy years ago, the A’s cumulative franchise record last reached baseball’s equator: a perfect .500 record. On June 7, 1941—the same day Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak reached 22 games—the A’s lost to the Indians 6-2 to drop their all-time record to 3,015-3,015. They dropped their next four games after that and played poorly the rest […]

Maybe Albert Pujols read the pop quiz post Friday, voted for “Over 1050” and set out to make that a reality. Whatever the reason, he pumped his 2011 OPS up from .746 heading into Friday’s game to .826 following Sunday’s 10th-inning, game-ending, series-sweeping home run. Yes, that’s an 80-point gain in a mere three contests. […]

Dodgers 9, Reds 6: Chad Billingsley — altogether now — helped his own cause by hitting  a homer, a double and driving in three.  I was watching the game when he hit the homer. I couldn’t see the beginning of his sentence, but Reds’ starter Travis Wood quite clearly mouthed the words “… homer to […]

15,000 days ago, one of baseball’s great milestones was reached for only the ninth time ever. On that day in the spring of 1970, “Mr. Cub” Ernie Banks belted his 500th career home run. (Random comment: Just think, Banks’ 500th HR is closer in time to Babe Ruth’s 500th shot than it is to today). […]

A decent review of Major League Baseball’s streaming video package, commonly referred to as “MLB.TV,” required a few months’ usage. It probably also requires someone that’s good at doing reviews, but until they show up this will have to suffice. Let’s take a brief look at the package and see if it’s worth taking advantage […]