Last night, Bronson Arroyo threw his 13th straight quality start. Pretty impressive, huh? One quality start is a middling achievement, but 13 in a row usually means you are regularly beating the 6 IP, 3 ER baseline. For instance, Arroyo has posted a 1.91 ERA during his stretch. So, how impressive is it? It’s the […]

I stumbled across an interesting post on Xconomy today about the Baseball World Cup qualification in Sweden. This got me thinking about the great potential for baseball to spread its market into Europe and across the globe. We have already seen the Latin American community and emerging asian markets embrace the game, why not Europe? […]

If you look at Ken Griffey’s numbers this year, they sure don’t stay a lot: wOBA: .321 OBP: .324 SLG: .402 WAR: 0.1 For a DH, these numbers are not exactly “pretty.” Junior was signed in the off-season to $2 million dollar deal that could reach up to $4.5 million if Griffey reached certain incentives. […]

Hey, if you’re in New York, I highly recommend you drop by Gelf’s Varsity Letters reading festival. It will be held at JLA Studios in Brooklyn at 7:30 Thursday night, and guests will include Larry Tye (I reviewed his book on Satchel Paige a while ago) and baseball blogging superstar Joe Posnanski, among others. Admission […]

On the 28th of September, the Phillies activated J.C. Romero from the 15-day disabled list. Romero had been knocked out since August 4th with a forearm strain, this coming after missing the first 50 days of the season thanks to a positive test for PEDs. As a result, the left-hander has appeared in only 16.2 […]

I usually ignore press releases, but there’s a TV show tonight that sounds like it might be fun. Man vs. Food travels to three minor league ballparks to gulp down their well-known food. I like the fact that they focused on minor league parks instead of the bigs (obviously, not a live show!) and that […]

Word is, the perpetually underachieving Indians just canned their manager, Eric Wedge. Question: When was the most recent managerial change for all 30 teams. Before checking the list can you guess which team has gone the longest without doing it? Longest in the other league? Well, here they are, bunched by fives for convenience sake. […]

In a complete ripoff of THT great Josh Kalk’s old format, I’d like to take a look one of the very talented, yet basically unheard of, young pitchers in the game. As you may have guessed by the title, I’m talking about Marc Rzepczynski, a 24 year old left handed pitcher on the Blue Jays. […]

From Rays Index: How many times have you seen it written or heard somebody say: “Wins is a useless way to evaluate a starting pitcher” Apparently at least one time less than it needs to be said. The thrust of the post: What we see is a very clear trend. As a pitcher’s ERA+ goes […]

Well, the Yanks did it again – posted another 100 win season. That ended their hellish drought where their fans were deprived of triple-digit regular season success since 2004. That leads me to wonder – what is the most recent 100-win season for all 30 franchises? Other questions to ponder: What’s the oldest team to […]