This has almost nothing to do with baseball, but I’ve got to tell you about it anyway. Two of my favorite subjects are graphics and food, and someone has combined them into a fascinating Food Timeline. The scale isn’t accurate (like xkcd’s universal height chart is), but who cares. The Food Timeline is full of […]

Joe Posnanski reads the Hardball Times Annual and starts reminiscing about Dave Kingman. Just another offbeat reason you should order your copy today.

Rich Lederer has the entire roster of arbitration decisions on his site, as well as comments on each team’s decisions.

Our RSS feeds have been challenged by the number of blogs we’re now running (curse you, Calcaterra!). I think I’ve fixed them so that all the links and feeds work properly, but please let me know if you find a problem with any of our RSS feeds. We’ve now got over twelve of them — […]

Great news. One of my very favorite baseball blogs, ShysterBall, has agreed to move its operation to the Hardball Times. Starting Monday, Craig Calcaterra (the actual shyster himself) will be posting several times a day on THT, in a special blog set up for him on our site. We’re pretty excited that Craig has agreed […]

This post is a couple of days old, but you gotta love minor league outfielders with great nicknames. This one just happened to be involved in two key deals for the Brewers.

A very good, Oakland-oriented career review of our next Hall of Famer, Rickey Henderson, is available at Athletics Nation (hat tip: Beyond the Boxscore).

Don’t know who Rinku and Dinesh are? They’re the latest international sensations, a couple of Indian brothers who had never played baseball until six months ago. And now they are members of the Pirates’ organization. Read the entire story at Walkoff Walk and Big League Stew.

Here is an excellent article by Bill Conlin over at Philly.com, talking about the hip injury of Chase Utley. Needless to say, Utley was likely playing through pain during most, if not all of the season. Just another reason why he is one of my favorite players of all-time.

Dave Cameron makes a very interesting observation over at Fangraphs. To use Dave’s example, when people say stuff like “David DeJesus is a very good center fielder, but his bat makes him just an average left fielder,” they’re forgetting that DeJesus’s defense will increase his “runs prevented” over a replacement left fielder (compared to a […]