We’ve now completed the second full weekend of interleague play for this season. After the initial round, in this space we noted that the National League, which has served as the AL’s doormat in interleague competition for the past several years, had surprised with a slight 22-20 superiority. This time the American League got the […]

Cubs 1, White Sox 0:  There were boatloads of home runs yesterday — with a ton of guys who had a pair each — but this one was all pitching.  Ted Lilly took a no-hitter into the ninth before pinch-hitting Juan Pierre hit a leadoff single to break it up.  Lou Piniella then took approximately […]

Warning: nerd post. I’m actually playing with baseball stats instead of watching a game because my son is playing Call of Duty on the TV. At Bill James Online (subscription site), Bill keeps track of each team’s “temperature.” The idea is to literally measure how “hot” or “cold” each team is. The system is calculated […]

For most fans, it’s easy to lose interest in the draft after the few couple of rounds. For the geekier of us, there are 1500 new players to analyze! A good starting point is to look at the overall trends of the draft. Not every team takes the same approach. Even the same front office […]

Rany Jazayerli twooted something this morning that caught my eye: Billy Butler had grounded into 16 double plays in his team’s first 59 games. That is a blistering pace (in fact, he’s now up to 17 in the first 60 games) that has been beaten only three times before (presumably during the Retrosheet era). Three […]

Mets 3, Padres 0: Jon Niese gave up a double to lead off the third. Otherwise: perfect.  Niese said after the game that he didn’t even realize it.  In related news, somewhere Oliver Perez told someone that his knee was feeling better, after which he was beaten with a pillowcase full of soda pop cans […]

Brewers catching prospect Angel Salome is apparently “no longer comfortable” behind the plate. That’s bad news for any young backstop, but it’s particularly bad for Salome. Granted, there have been question marks about Salome’s receiving skills from day one. The last two years, he has failed to throw out more than a quarter of would-be […]

Useless trivia department: See if you can figure this one out before clicking on the link. At some point today, it’ll be one billion seconds since one of the most famous homers in baseball history.

Now that the draft is officially over we will take a team by team look at the 2010 MLB first year player draft. Check out the team reports after the jump. Arizona The Diamondbacks put a heavy emphasis on pitching this year using their first eight picks to stock up on arms. They grabbed Texas […]

I used to update our division race graphs every morning, but I haven’t been able to get to it this year. I’m still hoping to figure out some system, but in the meantime I thought you might like to see the two most interesting graphs—the two divisions that have featured last-to-first surges in the past […]