Tim Marchman laments the fact that Tim Lincecum almost certainly won’t win the Cy Young award this year. Tim also has a surprising idea about a pitcher who just might sneak in to take it.

No, this isn’t a spam email. It’s just a reference to David Pinto’s latest article for the Sporting News, in which he looks at the impact size has on a player’s stats—as in clean-up batter Dustin Pedroia. Reminds me of David Gassko’s superb six-part series on size in these pages two years ago. Here’s the […]

Some Rays fans are starting to grow into their contender status and talk some more trash with Yankees fans. It’s hard to say that the Yankees won’t be back in the near future with their payroll resources, so Rays fans should definitely milk this run for all it’s worth.

It’s always interesting to read about baseball in the non-sports press. This BusinessWeek article breaks down MLB Advanced Media as a business. Bookmark this for the next time owners cry poor.

Gelf Magazine has an interesting interview with Buster Olney. We baseball analysts have a “love/hate/mostly disagree” thing going on with Buster, but I do respect how well he does his job. Olney will also be part of Gelf Magazine’s Varsity Letters event this Thursday in New York City.

Pizza Cutter argues that Kelly Johnson has actually gotten better at bat this year, despite posting a batting line of .263/.331/.402, compared to .276/.375/.457 last year. Cutter feels that Johnson’s decline has been a matter of bad luck because he’s swinging at more appropriate times this year and hitting line drives at a higher rate. […]

River Avenue Blues contemplates (for the first time in over a decade) what it means to give up a season. Not anything that fans of other teams are unfamiliar with, but it’s nice to see the Yankees fans deal with it too for once. (Pardon my schadenfreude.)

The Boston Globe’s excellent sports section takes us inside MLB’s new $2.5 million replay center, which will be used to provide replay footage to umpires working all MLB games. You can slow a picture down so much that you can see the grains of sand and the clay around the bag. You can see whether […]

Thanks to Sal Baxamusa, our batter projections for the rest of the year have been updated.

Patrick Sullivan over at Baseball Analysts compares the start of Grady Sizemore’s career with other historical center fielders, and finds that he matches up will with the likes of Fred Lynn and Jimmy Wynn. While this obviously in no way means he’ll have their careers, it does help put his performance into context.