Dan Fox has a nice review of managerial changes in baseball history similar to yesterday’s Ned Yost’s late-in-the-season-while-his-team-is-still-contending firing.

If you want to know what Carlos Zambrano was bringing to the plate last night in his no-hitter against the Astros, check out the detailed PITCHf/x breakdown by Harry Pavlidis, always a great source for Cubs analysis. For example, left-handed batters saw 14 splitters from Zambrano, all down and away, including the pitch that struck […]

Tango uses hockey officials as a possible allegory to MLB managers. So what does it take to be a good manager?

2009 will mark the last season that the Twins play in the HHH Metrodome and now they have a name for the new park, Target Field.

John Kreese from NoMaas lays out the reasons why Yankee fans must have patience with Brian Cashman as he “unwinds the misguided and poor decisions of the past several years”. Of course, the question is if he will be given the authority to do so.

Read a funny article a few days ago over at The Crawfish Boxes. Seems the Brewer’s lead on the Astros has lessened ever since Brett Favre was traded out of state.

Joe Posnanski posted a typically fantastic piece on Carlos Beltran yesterday. Beltran is the best all-around player in the majors today (though Sizemore gives him a run for the title) and deserves a lot of the MVP jazz that is currently heading Delgado’s way.

I agree with Sky 100% on this one. Not only is Carlos Delgado not the National League MVP, he’s not even the Mets’ MVP. Wright and Beltran have been more valuable to the Mets than Delgado. Or maybe we should just change the name of the award to “Best story about a slugger whose team […]

Joe Sheehan has a great post up at Baseball Prospectus (it’s free), pointing out that Cliff Lee hasn’t faced nearly the level of competition that Roy Halladay has. We spend a lot of time adjusting baseball statistics for context, but we don’t often adjust for one important aspect of context: level of competition. Perhaps we […]

Win Shares are now current through yesterday’s games. The best player over the last five weeks has been Manny Ramirez, who accumulated five WSAB in that time. Manny has been spectacular for the Dodgers, creating 44 runs in 152 plate appearances. Other hot players have been Roy Oswalt, Curtis Granderson, Dustin Pedroia and Hunter Pence […]