Giants 6, Reds 5: Jose Uribe gave the Giants a 4-1 lead with a two-run single in the third and their 6-5 lead with a two-run single in the seventh. Your moment of random, from the game story: “A man wearing a Mike Krukow Giants jersey and waving a ‘Go Buster’ sign dived over a […]

This draft is going to make some teams look really smart. Since it’s a relatively weak class, there’s not a lot of differentiation once you get past the top five or ten guys. Some players got into the top 20 by surprise; others dropped into the supplemental round or beyond even though teams were on […]

Here are immediate reactions to some of the 32 players taken in the first round tonight. Keep in mind that I spend all my time studying the college guys, so I’m not going to pretend I have anything to say about the prepsters. 1. Bryce Harper – Nats. Obviously no surprise here, except that he […]

This is a very simple question: Where is the best location on the field to get a base hit? It is very difficult for a hitter to put the ball in play exactly where he wants it. But the hitter has a majority influence on where the ball will go. He will either pull it, […]

In this year’s Hardball Times Annual, I had a lot of fun writing about Jack “Lucky” Lohrke, the infielder with modest stats but vast quantities of luck in the field, on the battlefront and in the air. One of his many qualifications as a Player of Luck was his presence on the roster of the […]

Orioles 4, Red Sox 3: Juan Samuel gets his first win as the O’s manager and the O’s get their first win in ten games. Nick Markakis breaks an 0-14 slump with the game-winning RBI single in the 11th. According to the game story, they were doing the shaving cream pie in the face thing […]

When I did my preseason team projections, I included a spreadsheet that has, among other things, defensive projection totals by team. The spreadsheet can be found at the bottom of this page. I didn’t have any team projected better than +38, or worse than -24. I took some heat for that, most notably from TangoTiger, […]

It seems like everyone is talking about how great the Ray’s starting rotation is. But when I dig deeper, it looks like many of their starters have had a fair amount of luck thus far. Using Pitchometer to look at rotations based on FIP, the Rays rotation doesn’t look as “awesome” as is widely publicized. […]

For the 10 years before I was born, Father’s Day had special meaning to my Dad. Every Phillies fan—like Dad—knows the significance of Father’s Day of 1964: Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game. It was just the fifth time in modern baseball history that someone could claim such an extraordinary feat: 27 up/27 down. The […]

Astros 6, Nationals 4: A walkoff two-run homer for Carlos Lee. The Nationals helped set it up, however, when Cristan Guzman lost a Lance Berkman liner in the lights and had it bounce in front of him allowing Michael Bourn to score. Braves 4, Dodgers 3: The best kept secret in baseball? Kris Medlen. The […]