Prospect development is a tricky thing. Which is like saying Russian Roulette is a game of chance. One of the things fans want to know the most about their team’s impending prospects is when they will finally get to see them in the majors. And while a prospect’s ETA is somewhat predictable assuming everything progresses […]

Sixty years ago today – on Sept. 15, 1950 – Johnny Mize belted three homers in one game. In doing so he set a record that still stands – for this was his sixth time hitting at least three homers in a game, an achievement no one else had ever done before, and only one […]

As announced earlier by Dave Studenmund, the daily Bullpen Charts have a new home. Go find the new one (and the old ones too) on the new THT Reports page.

You may have noticed that Max Marchi has been publishing a daily Bullpen Report and I’ve been sporadically publishing a THT Graphical Report. What’s more, you’ve probably lost sleep worrying that you’ll miss one of these valuable PDF documents because you’ve got things on your mind other than staying on top of the Hardball Times. […]

Rays 1, Yankees 0: Zeros through ten innings, eight a piece for CC Sabathia and David Price. Then the bullpens took over. Joe Girardi had everyone scratching their heads with his choice of relievers for the ninth and extras: Kerry Wood, Boone Logan, Chad Gaudin and Sergio Mitre. Girardi said after the game that Joba […]

Keep track of the available arms with the bullpen usage chart. At the end of the post you will find the link to the PDF containing all the match-ups of Sept. 13. The charts show the number of pitches thrown by each team’s pitchers each of the last seven days. How to read them: Above […]

White Sox 12, Royals 6: K.C. had a 6-0 lead in the first and, thanks in part to Paul Konerko hitting a couple of two-run bombs . . . lost. I guess we have to just keep on trusting The Process.  Oh, and speaking of the process:  I make a religious point of not watching […]

In the prospect world, this time of year is like the time for the rest of the sports world between the end of the Super Bowl and that glorious Thursday in March when the NCAA tournament madness begins. The minor league regular seasons have ended, and each playoff series that passes ends the season for […]

Keep track of the available arms with the bullpen usage chart. At the end of the post you will find the link to the PDF containing all the match-ups of Sept. 12. The charts show the number of pitches thrown by each team’s pitchers each of the last seven days. How to read them: Above […]

After yesterday’s post I got some neat suggestions to improve the visualized standings, so here are two improved approaches. In this first approach, I used a suggestion to hollow out the colored circles to put more emphasis on each team’s winning percentage. I think it helps a lot. I also tried to cluster the AL […]