Cleveland set a major league record last night when they were hit by a pitch for the 101st time this season. Michael Bourn, of Plunk Biggo fame, has written a guest column at Let’s Go Tribe about the Indians’ new mark.

A few Chicago Cubs got together and posted a video on Funny or Die. So this is what they do to pass time on the road?

The standings in the AL Central: White Sox 86-71 Twins 86-72 Indians 79-79 Royals 73-86 Tigers 71-86 I haven’t researched this at all, but I suspect this is the closest any league or division has ever gotten to perfect symmetry in the win-loss records this late in the year. It has no bearing on anything, […]

Alex Eisenberg has a nice scouting report up on Yankee prospect Brett Marshall.

Despite Arizona winning six of their last seven games, Jon Weisman notes the Dodgers remain the NL West favorites with 13 games left to play…

Vegas Watch assesses the various preseason predictions from some of the major outlets. His finding: don’t listen to ESPN. Plus, it’s past time to give PECOTA its due. Nate Silver is concentrating on the presidential race these days, but his PECOTA system is a gift that keeps giving.

Shysterball looks deep into the fantasies of major league owners. Hey, if it could happen to AIG, why not NYA?

I’m working away on the 2009 Hardball Times Annual (preorder it now!), collecting articles from over 40 prominent baseball writers and preparing THT’s usual stable of stupendous stats. Among other things, we list each team’s wins, losses, ERA and other stats on a monthly basis. So I have a lot of spreadsheets of 2008 data […]

Patrick Sullivan has posted a “Getting It Done” list of All Stars—those players who have performed the best since August 1st. Here is the list of position players and here are the pitchers. In other words, these players are helping their teams stay in the pennant race as the season comes to its conclusion. We […]

John Dewan of BIS has a new “stat of the week” out, and it’s a good one. BIS has been collecting fielding data for six years now, but one item they’ve never published is a “plus/minus” leaderboard for pitchers. Now they have, and it turns out that the writers have been right on this one: […]