This year, the Reds are supposed to be a good team with a solid, deep rotation. So far, no dice. The Reds are only a game over .500 as I write this and they came out of the spring with two starters on the DL. Fortunately, Homer Bailey is back and Johnny Cueto is about […]

Angels 11, Red Sox 0: Not the best 22 hours or so for the Red Sox. After Wednesday night’s marathon they come in bleary-eyed and get utterly shellacked by the Halos. Eight runs on ten hits in four innings for John Lackey who, to be honest, should have been the best rested of all of […]

Bill James will appear on the Colbert Show tonight, promoting his most recent book, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence. Bill is my boss—I help him manage his website, Bill James Online. But he’s also the Boss of us all. It drives me nuts when people blame Bill for the onslaught of statistics […]

Ken Gurnick of MLB.com tweeted an rather unsurprising update on the condition of Jonathan Broxton’s right elbow this week: Jonathon Broxton has been shut down with elbow pain, Don Mattingly said. Gurnick’s tweet was about as rich and informative as the eggatar he uses on twitter. I guess anyone paying attention saw this coming. Check […]

Braves 8, Brewers 3; Braves 8, Brewers 0: A day the Brewers would like to forget. The Braves scoring eight runs is rare enough, but doing it — in the first game at least — with no homers is even more rare for this station-to-station team. Tim Hudson threw a 102-pitch one-hitter in the nightcap, […]

One hundred years ago today, John McGraw’s Giants lost a game in hellish fashion. It wasn’t an especially important game. It wasn’t an especially prominent game. It certainly isn’t a famous game. It’s just another regular season game, albeit one that must have left McGraw absolutely sick to his stomach. Heading into the bottom of […]

Like most things, stolen base totals have fluctuated through baseball’s history. Players from certain eras tend to show up in leaderboards, even if they weren’t any good; they just happened to be in “faster” eras than others. The American League, by skipping the nineteenth century, would seem to be exempt from some of this fluctuation, […]

The Baseball Reliquary, a Southern California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history (and one of my favorite baseball organizations anywhere), announced today that it has added three new members to its Shrine of Eternals: Maury Wills, Pete Gray, and Ted Giannoulas. Quoting their […]

Brandon Belt won the San Francisco Giants’ starting first base job in spring training, but struggled at the plate in the first couple of weeks of the regular season, and was sent back to triple-A to get his stroke going. That seems to be working out pretty well. In 10 Pacific Coast League games, all […]

Twins 1, White Sox 0: The no-no! Francisco Liriano came into the game with a 9+ ERA and his job on the line and he didn’t allow a hit.  It wasn’t the most dominant no hitter you’ll ever see. He walked six guys, only struck out two and threw 123 pitches, but it doesn’t really […]