The Dodgers haven’t lost three straight games since last August. Really.

In last year’s Hardball Times Annual, I led off my Ten Things article with a brash finding: Major league players had gotten younger at a record pace in 2008. I double- and triple-checked all my spreadsheets and databases and it seemed to be true. A vast youth movement had taken over the game. I should […]

Reader Abbot Katz checks in with this note on batting average on balls in play. It has been some time now since the BABIP established its place in the sabermetric canon, and understandably so. BABIP means to aim a quantified scrutiny at a rather interesting problem: the extent to which a batter’s skill at directing […]

The Red Sox were certainly busy today. Mere hours after it was announced that the Red Sox had acquired first baseman Adam LaRoche, first baseman/left-fielder Chris Duncan has joined LaRoche in a Sox uniform, as reported by Nick Steiner here at THT Live along with an as-yet unnamed player. Steiner touches on the fact that […]

That would hurt a lot more in Fenway (Icon/SMI) As first reported by my homies at VIva El Birdos, Chris Duncan has been traded to the Boston Red Sox for Julio Lugo. Duncan, coming off a surgery to address a herniated cervical disk in his neck, was one of the worst players in baseball this […]

Earlier today, Philadelphia’s 10-game winning streak came to an end. In their honor, here is a list of the most recent ten-game winning streaks for all 30 teams. Included is the day they won #10 (which is also how they’re ranked, from most recent to oldest) and also noted is how long the winning streak […]

The Red Sox today completed a trade to bring first-baseman Andy LaRoche to Boston in exchange for two minor league prospects: shortstop Argenis Diaz and starter Hunter Strickland. LaRoche will make about $2.95 million the rest of the way, a salary that will be covered by Boston. On the Sox’s end of things, LaRoche gives […]

Let me flip around what I’ve done in my previous THT Live entries. Instead of providing perspective on the worst team in baseball, let’s look at the squad with the best record. The Dodgers have won four straight giving them a record of 60-34. It’s not nearly as historically impressive as Washington’s futility, so instead […]

The big news of Monday evening was the Roy Halladay-to-the-Mets rumor, as reported by SI. That rumor has since been debunked by several sources, and it was hard to believe at the time I heard it. When my friend told me about the report via text message, I responded with some choice words about Omar […]

Philadelphia outfield prospect Michael Taylor has earned a recent promotion to Triple-A Leigh Valley after a dominating stint in Double-A. Taylor, a former 5th round selection in 2007 out of Stanford University, was third in the Eastern League with a .333 average and OPS of .977 was 252 points above the league average. Taylor entered […]