Taj Adib of Athletics Nation has an impressive rundown on the various goings-on in the Oakland minor league system, which is regarded by many as the best system in baseball at the moment.

Dave Cameron rails against the current system of free agent compensation because he thinks it doesn’t actually accomplish anything worthwhile. He has a point.

Magpie has put together a database of all Blue Jay starts and posts his results here. This is a nice reminder of how awesome Dave Steib was.

After fifteen games, Mark Teixeira is batting .375/.471/.625 for the Angels. What’s more, he’s already leading all Angel batters in WPA.

Maybe this has already occurred to you folks, but I just found out that Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Craig Biggio and Mike Piazza, (not to mention Kenny Lofton) are all likely to be first-timers on the Hall of Fame ballot at the same time. (Thanks, Billy Ball). If not for steroids, […]

Tim Marchman has another nice commentary, this time talking about baseball’s latest attempts to fix the baseball drat and why they aren’t working.

Colin Wyers has done something I meant to do earlier this year: a new and in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of various ERA “component” stats. The study seems sound to me, though I would have created a league-specific FIP add-on for each year (which is what we do here at THT), instead of using 3.2 […]

On the DL for the second time this season, Padres starting pitcher Chris Young is now dealing with a strained right forearm. You have to wonder if this very condition was bothering him earlier in the ’08 season, as his production was down across the board from a Sabermetrics standpoint as well as a PITCHf/x […]

Here’s an excellent interview with SI’s Jon Heyman at the Big Lead. Heyman is very open here, giving his thoughts about the competitive nature of scooping baseball stories. (Hat tip: Shysterball)

Matthew Carruth and Graham MacAree have created a cool new baseball stats site that lists some cutting-edge baseball stats, including Tango’s wOBA and Graham’s tRA, as well as some basic batted ball and pitch results from publicly available data sources. It’s still in development, so let Matthew and Graham know if you have any suggestions […]