In this just-started offseason, Akinori Iwamura, Mark Teahen and Jeremy Hermida have headlined trades. Now, J.J. Hardy makes four. Hardy, acquired by the Minnesota Twins in exchange for Carlos Gomez, leaves Milwaukee after five seasons. Debuting as a 22-year old, Hardy had quickly established himself as a top-tier shortstop in quick order until 2009 brought […]

As I was reading through old Baseball Digests on Google Books for an upcoming article series, I found this quote: “There’s an American League joke which has a gag line: ‘Switch to the National League and add five years to your career.’” Although it could describe modern baseball well enough, the quote is from May […]

The Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals hooked up for an intradivision trade the day after the World Series ended, agreeing to send 3B/RF Mark Teahen to the south side of Chicago in exchange for 2B Chris Getz and 3B Josh Fields. This trade is certainly no blockbuster, but the trade appears to be […]

Another round of chatting about the World Series during the game. World Series Game 6

I have to say, I’m pretty impressed by Tampa Bay’s ability to turn Akinori Iwamura into a young, cost-controllable fireballing reliever. It was essentially a done deal that Iwamura would become a free agent so Tampa could move to Ben Zobrist as a full-time second baseman (with Sean Rodriguez knocking on the door for playing […]

I was very tempted to write a different title for this post, but I didn’t want to scare away any readers. This edition is a strange one by our usual standards. Why is that? Because Carson Cistulli chimed in saying he’d like to take part. I mean that in the most positive way possible, Carson. […]

I don’t have anything of value—in terms of insight or comedy—to add to what’s already been said about this ridiculous Mike Lupica article from today’s NY Daily News. Craig already talked about it at NBC during his morning in exile from his soon to be retired lawyer unique perspective. But Jay at Fack Youk gives […]

Well, the Phillies staved off elimination, giving us our first World Series to reach Game Six in a half-dozen years. The question now is: what does history tell us of teams in this situation? Well, there have been 57 previous best-of-seven World Series that reached a Game Six. In the sixth contest*, the trailing has […]

As I’m sure you all have heard, Johnny Damon took advantage of the shift to advance an extra base on a steal of second last night. It was 2 outs in the ninth, and after a walk to Texeira, next batter A-Rod hit a walkoff double. As you can expect, Damon’s steal was given a […]

Once again, we’ll be hosting a liveblog/chat for the World Series Game 5 tonight. I’m trying to arrange some moderators to cover for me in the early innings. It’s been fun the last four games. Come join us tonight if you want to have some good sabermetric-inclined fun while watching the game. World Series Game […]