Phillies 12, Rockies 11:  I went to the Ohio State-Marshall game last night and for what it’s worth, each of these teams had more offense than the Thundering Herd. Heck, Chase Utley himself almost drove in as many, um, points as the Herd did. Six RBI including a grand slam in a nine-run seventh inning. […]

Let’s take a gander at how good the “pennant races,” 1969-93 style, would look this year. Obviously the schedules would be slightly different, but the impact of the unbalanced schedule is generally much less than most think anyway. The Yankees and Devil Rays would be neck and neck with no safety net. 1993 Braves-Giants or […]

Twenty years ago today, on September 2, 1990, Dave Stieb finally did it. After years of painful teasing, he finally threw a complete game no-hitter. Rarely had a pitcher gone such torture to achieve this goal. Prior to that day, Stieb had five separate complete game one-hitters. As an added bonus: all five one-hitters had […]

Marlins 16, Nationals 10: Fisticuffsmanship! Nyjer Morgan’s mound-charge was pretty good until he whiffed on that punch, but the star of this show was Gabby Sanchez, who came over from first base with a move that put me in mind of Manny Fernandez’s flying burrito. Wait, you’re not telling me you don’t know who Manny […]

Time for the latest in baseball pictures. I’ve created the latest Hardball Times Graphical Report, featuring pennant race graphs and hitting/pitching/fielding breakdowns for each team. Stats are through the end of August. You can download it here.

The White Sox decided to experiment with their DH spot in 2010. Instead of re-signing a prodigious slugger with great on base skills (Jim Thome), general manager Kenny Williams instead decided Mark Kotsay was awesome (he is not) and that the DH should exist for the alternative purposes of resting the fielders (some of whom—specifically […]

Can we please come up with a new nickname? It reminds me too much of Newmanium. Aroldis Champan’s debut was the talk of not just the prospect world, but the entire baseball world as well, and the Reds’ Cuban prodigy did not disappoint. The outing was as brief as his fastball’s trip to the plate, […]

Yankees 9, Athletics 3: I suppose it’s inevitable that the Yankees will soon start getting burned by their starters only going four or five innings, but right now it’s working. And hey: they’re all alone in first place. Why? Blue Jays 13, Rays 5: Because the Rays got annihilated when the Jays put up a […]

Not too long ago on The Book Blog, Tango Tiger posed the question of whether you can use closers as statistical comps for Stephen Strasburg. There just haven’t been many starting pitchers who threw as hard, had such a variety of dominant pitches, and control to boot. The few who are statistical comps in the […]

I was interviewed by Bloomberg Sports the other day, and you can listen to it here. We mostly talk about the Hardball Times and the work I’ve done here for the past six years, along with some baseball topics thrown in. I refuse to listen to it cause I can’t stand the sound of my […]