Mets 4, Giants 3: Umpire Phil Cuzzi didn’t hand a win to the Mets, but he sure as hell took one away from the Giants.  Travis Ishikawa was safe on this play — even Henry Blanco said so after the game — but Cuzzi called him out. It was clearly the wrong call and it […]

Since there was a desire for more than just the AL East…. (FYI, I’m aware that some of the players in Rankometer have been traded to other teams. For now just let’s view this as a recap of the first half of the season).

Yesterday, Bengie Molina hit for the cycle. Yep, you can pick your jaw up off the ground now. The very idea of Molina hitting for a cycle is crazy enough, but it goes further. First, his home run was a grand slam. That’s only the eighth time in baseball history a player has hit for […]

Thanks to the fantastic latest updates from Retrosheet and Baseball Reference, I am able to find out something I’ve wondered about a long time: Did Jim Konstanty lead the National League in Win Probability Added in 1950? Jim Konstanty represents an important milestone in the history of relief pitching. A journeyman pitcher for many years, […]

Colin has an article at Baseball Prospectus today that is required Sabermetrics 101 reading. It’s been linked already in the THTLinks Twitter feed this morning, but it deserves more prominence and more discussion. This is an article of fundamental importance for the baseball analysis community. Anyone who is evaluating fielding, which is almost everyone in […]

Most players make their pro debut in rookie ball, and most of those who don’t being their careers in short-season A. Of course, there are exceptions—most notably this year, Stephen Strasburg (opened in Double-A), Aroldis Chapman (started in Triple-A), and Mike Leake (no full-season minors at all). No member of the 2010 draft class is […]

Happy Friday. Here’s a look at the AL East, courtesy of Rankometer. I decided to display all 5 of the teams in the division on one page to make comparisons easier. (To zoom in on a particular team’s Rankometer, just click on it and it will zoom in.) When I look at the AL East […]

SATIRE—Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon has instituted a popular spSpam blocker to help solve issues relating to the payments and settlement of the McCourts’ divorce. The judge declared that using the spam blocker was the quickest and best way to get only rational comments from Frank and Jamie. He stated that typical spam […]

Giants 2, Mets 0: Carlos Beltran returns and goes 1 for 4 — and was caught stealing after the hit — but Tim Lincecum puts on his 2009 pants and throws a six hit shutout. And RBI double for Pablo Sandoval too, which is a far more important bounceback for the Giants if they want […]

On the occasion of Sean Forman adding Clutch to baseball-reference.com, Tango notes some of the best and worst career numbers. It’s clear from the leaderboard that contact hitters tend to do well (Nellie Fox is at the top of the list!) and power hitters generally don’t. (With a stat named “Clutch,” things can get confusing. […]