Nationals 5, Mets 3: Triple plays and inside the park homers are pretty cool. Sadly, they only count for three outs and one run, respectively. Hats off to Angel Pagan all the same. Royals 8, Indians 4: Kerry Wood came into a save situation in the ninth and gave up a triple, a single, a […]

Here’s a quick look – courtesy of BatCode & PitchCode – at two players who are really turning it on lately.

I’m not really a scout, but I did have the good fortune to see Stephen Strasburg pitch for the Syracuse Chiefs in Rochester, N.Y., tonight. He absolutely lived up to the hype. Strasburg touched 99 mph on the park gun a handful of times and worked consistently in the 96-98 range. He made several hitters […]

Red Sox 7, Yankees 6: For the second time in three days Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera blew a game. This one was way more on Chamberlain — he came into the eighth with a 5-1 lead and the inning ended with things knotted at 5 — but Rivera came in and gave up two […]

Yankees 11, Red Sox 9: Papelplosion.  The Yankees blew a 6-1 lead and found themselves down 9-7 nearly four hours and eight and a third innings into it when A-Rod hit a two run homer to tie it and Marcus Thames hit a two-run homer to win it. Papelbon had a day off on Sunday, […]

On Sunday, the Cubs beat the Pirates 4-3. This was their first win over the NL Central’s typical sadsack of the year. Pittsburgh claimed victory in their previous five meetings this year – and also won their last two contests against the Cubs last year for good measure. OK, so when was the last time […]

Dodgers 1, Padres 0: The Dodgers sweep the West-leading Padres despite being two-hit. Maybe I’m being overly pessimistic, but I’m starting to get the feeling that you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — […]

Since we stopped publishing online stats, we’ve received several requests for Predicted OPS, or PrOPS, the metric that was invented by JC Bradbury five years ago. We haven’t been able to pull the data yet, but JC has and he’s posted the year-to-date results in his most recent post. Enjoy.

As a follow-up to the introduction of BatCode, here’s its estranged twin PitchCode. In this post I’ll share two ways to use PitchCode for John Lester’s 2009 season. The first works just like BatCode – showing the results of each at-bat (against Lester) with a line representing a walk or hit and line thickness representing […]

Back in April, I profiled some of the “stars” of the Atlantic League , which featured guys like Armando Benitez and Edgardo Alfonzo…just to name a few. Luckily for us, there are a variety of other independent leagues out there featuring former major league talent or perhaps simply names you might know. As we continue […]