It’s been two weeks since our last Graphical Report, and I apologize for that. But better late than never, and here is the Hardball Time’s latest Graphical Report, laying out how well each team has been doing, or not doing, and why. It’s a PDF file, so you’ll need Adobe Acrobat to read it. Happy […]

Lest anyone takes this seriously, let it be known that the following analysis is tongue-in-cheek. Today, Fangraph’s fulltimer and known Mariners lover David Cameron posted on a topic titled “Free Agent Signings That Worked.” The comments section immediately devolved into a “you missed that guy” and/or “this guy is the best” and/or “this guy doesn’t […]

Yankees 9, Tigers 5: The play in this one was defined by the six home runs that were hit (two by Miguel Cabrera), but the game was defined by chin music. Or at least leg and back music.  After last night’s hard slide by Brett Gardner knocked Carlos Guillen out indefinitely, Gardner was plunked in […]

Bank vaults hold cash. Fort Knox’s vault holds gold. Film vaults hold old reels of “The Pride of the Yankees.” Burial vaults presumably hold deceased Yankees. For years now, Chris Armstrong has been wondering what, exactly, is kept in the Sports Illustrated vault. “I totally want to go down to the office and tour the […]

Twins 7, White Sox 6: The Twins jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first, couldn’t hold it and the Sox hung tight with them for most of the game. Then, down a run in the bottom of the 10th, Jim Thome hit a two-run walkoff bomb that in no way made Ozzie Guillen […]

On August 18, 1960, Milwaukee Braves starter Lew Burdette threw a game for the ages. On that day, Burdette’s second-place Braves desperately tried to stay in the race (7.5 games behind the front-runner and eventual World Series champion Pirates) faced the perpetually pathetic Philadelphia Phillies. Though a chronic cellar dweller, the Phillies rarely looked as […]

Rays 6, Rangers 4: Once again, a highly touted pitching matchup fails to yield a great pitchers duel. David Price walked five guys, but only gave up two runs. Cliff Lee was cruising, striking out ten guys, but he hit a brick wall in the eighth, giving up a series of hits while watching his […]

Twenty years ago today, Nolan Ryan had one of his most impressive and memorable outings. On August 17, 2010, in the first game of a doubleheader, Nolan Ryan threw 10 shutout innings, allowing only three hits and walking none while fanning 15. The resulting Game Score of 101 was the highest by an AL pitcher […]

Although misleadingly titled, Doug Glanville’s The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View is still an enjoyable book for a baseball fan seeking a comprehensive account of a baseball player’s existence. Rather than a searching analysis of the game and its current issues, it’s a memoir of a player who was “just good […]

Padres 8, Giants 2: So much for Jonathan Sanchez’s big prediction. The Padres take two of three from San Francisco and run their lead to 3.5 games. Another distressingly bad start from Tim Lincecum (3.2 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 5 ER). The scary question of the day: is he just lost, or is he […]