Today’s playoff odds, courtesy of MLB Playoff Odds. DS% Lg% WS% Boston .927 .493 .277 Tampa Bay .911 .442 .236 Chicago (A) .089 .032 .012 Los Angeles (A) .073 .033 .016 Philadelphia .763 .402 .193 Milwaukee .237 .106 .046 Los Angeles .492 .219

The latest playoff odds, courtesy of MLB Playoff Odds, of course. Changes: – Derek Lowe starting Game 4 on short rest DS% Lg% WS% Boston .927 .493 .274 Tampa Bay .911 .442 .234 Chicago (A) .089 .032 .012 Los Angeles (A) .073 .033 .016 Philadelphia .877 .457 .220 Chicago (N) .117 .062 .030 Milwaukee .123 […]

Imagine Sports had some interesting comments about yesterday’s games. And they made them before the games were played. Here are their comments for todays games: White Sox/Rays and Red Sox/Angels

For my BR/PRC list, I split players into individual teams. Naturally, an alert reader asked me what C.C. Sabathia’s and Manny Ramirez’s totals would look like combined. The answer is that Sabathia accrued 157 Pitching Runs Created for Cleveland and Milwaukee, while Ramirez totaled 129 Base Runs for Boston and Los Angeles.

I like to combine David Smith’s Base Runs and David Gassko’s Pitching Runs Created into one single list of “run creation/prevention” leaders for the year. It gives you a pretty good idea of each player’s impact on offense and defense, leaving only fielding out of the equation. Here’s the final list for 2008. As you […]

Here is the latest take from MLB Playoff Odds. DS% Lg% WS% Boston .762 .417 .232 Tampa Bay .788 .392 .207 Chicago (A) .212 .077 .030 Los Angeles (A) .238 .114 .054 Philadelphia .877 .456 .225 Chicago (N) .127 .067 .033 Milwaukee .123 .055 .024 Los Angeles .873 .422 .193

Will Carroll and Eric Seidman have a free BPro post up about the recent comments that batting in front of Manny has helped Andre Ethier. Of course, a detailed look at Pitchf/x data reveals no such thing. It’s worth remembering that JC Bradbury and Doug Drinen found that batting in front of a superstar may, […]

Imagine Sports did a nice job of forecasting the critical dynamic in yesterday’s games.

Here are the latest odds from MLB Playoff Odds: DS% Lg% WS% Boston .762 .432 .241 Tampa Bay .630 .313 .166 Chicago (A) .370 .135 .052 Los Angeles (A) .238 .119 .057 Philadelphia .688 .351 .176 Chicago (N) .328 .176 .090 Milwaukee .312 .138 .062 Los Angeles .672 .335 .156 You can read this post […]

Just to put to rest one of the more debated about subjects, especially among Yankee fans, Brian Cashman announced that Joba Chamberlain will be placed in the starting rotation for the 2009 season. H/T to River Ave. Blues, which provides the link to the interview in which Cashman makes this announcement. This is a good […]