A wise man once said, “What happens when you combine Hit Tracker data with Pitch f/x data? You get a whole lot of data.” On his Physics of Baseball website, Alan Nathan recently studied home run park effects using data from both Hitf/x and HitTracker. Some of the goodies include how difficult it is to […]

I already wrote one liveblog entry partially inspired by last night’s White Sox-Mariners game, in which Seattle won 1-0 in 14 innings. Other stupid thoughts . . . . Last night was the first time the Mariners won an extra-inning game 1-0. They previously lost five such contests, most recently on April 24, 1993 to […]

Tonight, (this morning? – whatever, the game began on August 12) the White Sox and Mariners played a game where no runs were scored until the 14th inning. Five days earlier, on August 7, the Yanks and Red Sox went until the 15th until a run was scored. How often does that happen? Well, I […]

Fearless Leader’s entry today on how to improve graphs has inspired some conversation at BtB and Tango’s blog. For the most part I agree with everything Dave says – I do think that having the WAR values on the y-axis is helpful, which is about my only reservation with his advice. But. His graphs were […]

Angels prospect Trevor Bell made his major league debut today against Tampa Bay. Bell started the game lasting 5.1 innings giving up four runs on nine hits including a pair of home runs by Carlos Pena. Bell struck out four and walked just one batter. He threw 75 pitches in the outing, flashing his entire […]

The Milwaukee Brewers imported David Weathers, now they’re shaking up their offense by bringing up Alcides Escobar along with Jason Bourgeois and kicking Bill Hall and J.J. Hardy to the curb. Okay, maybe they aren’t exactly shaking up their offense by bringing Escobar in the fold. Escobar, 22, has long been known for his defense […]

Here’s some random stuff I haphazardly found out while noodling at Baseball-Reference.com. In his last 33 games, Scott Podsednik’s hit .258/.313./341 for an OPS of 653 (well, I get 654, but b-ref says otherwise, I guess they’re adding up SLG & OBP’s full numbers, and not just rounding off). For comparison, Josh Fields as a […]

Red Sox prospect Junichi Tazawa will make his first major league start tonight for Boston. Tazawa got the emergency call Friday night when he came out of the pen and took the loss in extra innings against the Yankees. Fellow writer Mike Fast detailed his outing last weekend on this very blog. Tazawa was signed […]

Let’s try a little thought experiment. Let’s say that tomorrow morning Bud Selig declares that he’s exercising the “best intrests of baseball” clause to have Albert Pujols’ contract nullified, making him a free agent immediately. How many teams offer him a job? And how much money do they offer him? Yeah, I know – that […]

Today, we found out that the White Sox were indeed the claiming team on Alex Rios. The White Sox received the 28-year old off waivers — not even giving up anyone. The waiver claim of Alex Rios generated quite a bit of furor in the blogosphere, much to the bewilderment of Dan Novick. In the […]