AZ Snakepit has the first installment of a two-part interview with Dbacks GM Josh Byrnes.

If you haven’t yet ordered The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009, now is the perfect time, as it is shipping starting today. You can read more about it here, and order here.

Thanks to comments at Tango’s blog, Ballhype and reader e-mails, I’ve made some revisions to the player value spreadsheet I published last week. The highlights: Fixed a bug in the way pitcher replacement level was calculated. (Special thanks to KJOK.) Adjusted the linear weights I was using – I reconciled using the IBB, but excluded […]

I’m going to link this without much commentary at this point. SI is claiming that that Alex Rodriguez was one of the players who tested positive in the 2003 survey test of major league baseball players. The test results were supposed to be destroyed, but the Federal government seized them from the testing labs as […]

We have recently updated our outfield arm stats through the 2008 season. Actually, it’s more than an update, it’s a true upgrade, since we now estimate park effects on outfield throwing. See here for our discussion of outfield throwing this past season. That piece has results for many outfielders, but now you can check out […]

Howard Bryant wrote this article on Hank Aaron’s 75th birthday bash and how much Aaron had to endure in his time and so forth. I agree with him completely that Aaron pioneered a lot and had solid integrity. More than most, I even agree with Bryant that baseball owes a duty of morality to the […]

Stats takes a look at Aaron Heilman and tries to answer the question: how good is he? As many analysts have said, he does have some very good stuff. I particularly like what Stats does with whiff rates. But the real clue to Heilman’s poor 2008 lies in his lefty/righty split data.

Here is some great work about called third strikes, focusing particularly on the dormant bats of the A’s. Is there anything more frustrating?

You know that cool Obama poster that is now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery? Want to see the baseball equivalent? Here it is: Many thanks to Obamaicon.me

Well, not you in particular, but the co-founder of THT and current Rotoworld writer ]is looking for new writers to work as part-timers for that site. Qualificiations: Previous writing experience is an absolute must, as is significant knowledge of and passion for both baseball and fantasy baseball. Qualified applicants would work under baseball editors Aaron […]