Unexpectedly, the St. Louis Cardinals announced yesterday that starting third baseman Troy Glaus underwent right shoulder surgery on Wednesday. Initial reports had said that it was a debridement of his labrum, though it is now being reported that it was not the labrum – rather, it was a debridement of a muscle. He is expected […]

Readers in the Chicago area may be interested to hear that Dave Studeman will be speaking at Northwestern University this Thursday (Jan. 22) at 7 pm. His topic will be an introduction to Win Shares and key sabermetric concepts. The event is open to public and will be held at University Hall at the Evanston […]

Former A’s and Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson will be sharing his pitching thoughts with Full Count Pitch twice a month. Here is the first installment, in which he talks about four basic areas of pitching: the pitch count, evaluating pitchers, getting ahead of hitters, and the makeup of a successful pitcher.

Our own Chris Jaffe did a fine job of predicting the Hall of Fame results, correctly forecasting that Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice would make it, and Andre Dawson and Bert Blyleven would fall short. I’m sure he’ll brag about this himself, but here’s a close look at his predictions vs. the actual voting: Player […]

It’s Messrs. Henderson and Rice in the Hall from the “standard” BBWAA method. The jury’s out as to whether more articles will be written henceforward on how Rice should or should not be in the Hall as were written before the election.

You can now read past editions of the Hardball Times Annual for free. A PDF file of the 2004 Annual is available on our FTP site, and the 2007 and 2008 editions are available at Wowio. Here’s the link to the 2007 book, and here’s the link for 2008. We’re working on the 2006. And, […]

There are rumblings out of Atlanta that the John Smoltz era may soon be coming to an end. Multiple sources have the Red Sox as the high bidders for his services. After undergoing right shoulder surgery that was widely thought to be a sure thing to end his magnificent career, Smoltz is apparently on the […]

During the Chisox’ World Series year, Ozzie Guillen notably stayed with his starters longer than most managers. That’s no longer true, and South Side Sox investigates further.

Here’s a nice little analysis over at Fire Jim Bowden, rating managers by the situations in which they ordered intentional walks.

In Peter Gammons’s blog of today, he discusses the upcoming youth movement (citing favorably to Mr. Studeman’s piece in this year’s Annual) and debunks the idea that this year’s spending in New York is new, noting that the “good old days” had plenty of it. (FYI, 39 of the first 61 World Series featured at […]