The Brewers are going to experiment with their starting pitchers at Single-A Brevard County. In order to get projected starters accustomed to pitching to the end of games, the relievers are going to start each game, with the starter relieving the reliever in the third or fourth inning. That way, once the projected starters have […]

Not surprisingly, a recent study finds that while Latinos are well represented on major league baseball teams, there are relatively few playing NCAA baseball. I agree with JC Bradbury that this is not that interesting a finding, but it would be interesting to see whether Latinos are underrepresented on NCAA baseball teams compared to their […]

More Tuesday fun with this Molina brothers quiz over on JoePos’ blog.

Always fun to read about what players do in their spare time. Unbowed by his blown save earlier in the day, Papelbon challenged Dropkick Murphy Ken Casey to a game of Guitar Hero in the bar’s VIP room and actually won. The pair squared off on “Story of My Life” by Social Distortion.

Pizza Cutter is developing a new rating system for fielders. In this post, he looks at 2007 infielders. Though I’m no expert at fielding systems, I like how he has broken his results into different categories.

Phil Birnbaum has posted a third article looking at the issue of whether teams play worse when they’re jet lagged. Phil’s research has been inspired by a study that claimed teams were affected by jet lag but Phil’s detailed and excellent research has failed to find a correlaton.

It’s About the Money, Stupid (nothing personal; that’s the name of the blog) has an interview with agent Matt Solsnick. It’s good to hear from the agency side of the business of baseball.

I don’t know if you’ve followed the story of Josh Hamilton and his agent (I haven’t), but it’s resulted in an ethical dilemma for one fan, who did the natural thing: He asked Shysterball what he should do. The “Hamilton situation” has been covered nicely by It is about the Money, Stupid. Hamilton recently fired […]

The omnipresent Eric Seideman has compiled some cool data on the outcome of fastballs at various speeds.

Willie Randolph has penned his own article for the Daily News, covering the details of how he was fired. Here’s a tip to Omar Minaya and all of you who may fire people in the future: Tell them at the beginning of the discussion. Don’t draw it out. Only makes it worse. Take it from […]