Driveline Mechanics reviews the Rich Harden trade and analyzes Sean Gallagher’s stuff and mechanics. Kyle likes this deal from the A’s perspective.

Our Win Shares are now updated through yesterday’s games (July 10). Ian Kinsler now leads the majors with 24 Win Shares and is tied with Lance Berkman for the major league lead in WSAB at 16. In fact, Kinsler has been the majors’ best players over the last 16 days (or, since I last updated […]

JC Bradbury hits upon one of my pet peeves, which is asking players to significantly modify their approach. In this case, he harps on Braves commentator Joe Simpson for calling on Jeff Francouer to hit more to the opposite field; I feel the same way when people want Jack Cust to “just try to make […]

Beyond the Box Score has an interesting analysis of John Danks’ breakout this season, mostly using PITCHf/x data to tease out differences in pitch selection and velocity. I’m still not 100 percent convinced of the causality in cases like this—i.e. is he pitching better because of his pitch selection/approach, or is his approach different because […]

For those interested, Mitchel Lichtman (MGL) and I will be teaching a class at MIT focusing on sabermetric analysis of pitching and defense. The class is for high school aged kids, but this one will be open to the public, so anyone who wants to can come. The class will be in room 4-231 (here’s […]

Bob Timmerman over at Baseball Toaster commemorates the 76th anniversary of the day the single-day AL hits record was set, with eight teams accumulating 190 hits in one day of baseball.

Paul DePodesta with some excellent philosophic and strategic notes about mid-season trades. I like this: The Volume Myth I have to address this one, because we always joke about it internally. Overwhelming teams with volume is not a recipe for bringing back quality players. Every team out there is smart enough to know that four […]

Mike Pindelski takes a closer look at John Danks’ improvement this season, using various stats and Josh Kalk’s PITCHf/x graphs and data. The bottom line: Danks is for real.

Newly minted two-time All Star Justin Duchscherer is looking for a three-year extension. Amazingly, the A’s still own two arbitration years on him, and even though as a fan it’d be awesome to lock up and take care of the guy who went from under the radar starting prospect to middle relief ace to All […]

Always interesting when newspapers change their stories after they’ve been published. JC Bradbury tracks some of the changes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution made to a piece about Jeff Francouer.