The title says it all.

Geoff Young has the first part of a three-part interview with Padres CEO Sandy Alderson up on his Ducksnorts site.

Maury Brown gathered people inside and outside the game of baseball to share their opinion on the current state of the game. It’s a fantastic insight into the differing viewpoints of the game and the many concerns people have.

For those who want to keep up with the rumor mill, Brian Joseph recaps the origin and status of the C.C. Sabathia and Ken Griffey Jr. trade rumors.

That’s not exactly what he says, but Willie Bloomquist (.160/.288/.160) does admit to his hometown newspaper that he would have more value in the National League. Fans at USS Mariner and Lookout Landing rejoice.

In my recent article here looking at how quickly pitchers work and how that affects the defense behind them, I listed the fastest-working and slowest-working pitcher on each team. I’ve had some interest from the fans of various teams in seeing the whole list for their team, so I have reproduced the full list (as […]

You can find it here. The pitch classification isn’t so great right now so you should probably first check to see what the algorithm thinks the pitcher throws by looking at his player card. You can also still use the 2007 tool here.

More emphasis on speeding up games has led to a decrease in average game time by a couple minutes since May 23. Since it’s such a small sample and short period of improvement, I’m a bit skeptical that this is a real effect, but at least it seems like MLB cares about speeding up the […]

Matthew Cerrone does a good job of summing up the criticisms against Omar Minaya’s roster construction.

A website called Baseball Playoffs Now, which uses a proprietary set of calculations to predict the season standings, predicts that both Chicago teams will meet in the World Series and the Cubs will win in six. Though their methods seem sound, they predicted the Red Sox would be in the Series just four days ago. […]