One of my favorite baseball writers, Jules Tygiel, passed away yesterday. He was only 59 years old. Bob Timmerman has a fitting tribute at Baseball Toaster. Like Bob, I highly recommend both of Tygiel’s books.

Since Sportvision and MLBAM introduced the PITCHf/x pitch tracking system in the 2006 World Series, people have been analyzing the data and writing about it, starting with pioneers like Dan Fox and Joe P. Sheehan. When I began looking at the PITCHf/x data last summer, I quickly realized that I needed to know what had […]

If you’re a baseball fan in New York City, you might want to check out Gelf Magazine’s Varsity Letters get-together this Thursday. Featured authors include Milton H. Jamail, Deidre Silva, Jackie Koney, and Tim Wendel. Admission is free.

This game preview at MLB.com notes that Oakland has used 64 different lineups in their first 81 games. The implication is that 64 different lineups is a lot, but in fact it’s league-average. The AL leader in lineup variety is Cleveland (71 different lineups in its first 82 games). The trailer is Chicago (only 55 […]

Another manager bats his pitcher eighth.

Aaron Gleeman (the very personification of dignity as long as you skip the last photo) has posted his annual SABR recap, which is always required reading. In fact, Aaron’s recaps are probably the best recruitment campaign SABR has ever run (as Mike Veeck said, “SABR is fun!”).

Political shenanigans related to baseball are afoot in Pittsfield, MA once again, and Shysterball has a take on the situation.

Sandy Alderson on why the Padres will be sellers rather than buyers.

New York is going to have to replace two old ballparks next year. Here’s an amazing piece of architecture in Japan, built to replace an old ballpark in Osaka.

Pittsburgh Dan Fox has posted an outtake from the Baseball Prospectus pennant race book, in which he ranks the greatest pennant races of all time. No surprise that the 1908 NL is first; the fun fact is that the 1908 AL is 13th. In the multi-division era, the 1977 American League East is ranked first.