Nice article outlining the impact Cliff Floyd has had on teams. I’ve always liked Floyd, and it’s nice to see him get credit for something beyond his on-field accomplishments. But is the jab at Bill James really necessary? Obviously, this writer hasn’t read much of Bill James’ work. If he had, he’d realize that James […]

Has Roy Halladay been getting the benefit of the calls this year? Jon Hale takes a look and finds that yes, he has.

Dan Brooks paints some outstanding strike zone pictures, using the Pitch f/x data. Personally, I find these types of graphs much easier to read than the ones with all the dots. Of course, you can only create something like this if you have lots of pitches in your database. (Hat tip, Tango)

MGL has a look at the UZR data from 2008 so far and how it compares to his pre-season predictions. He also gives a leaderboard of best and worst performances by position, but pay attention to sample size issues. Defense needs at least twice as much sample as offense before it becomes as meaningful so […]

Larry Boros laments injuries to two Cardinal starters and what might be done to juggle the rotation around them.

Joe Crede posts a .667/.705/1.800 line over a four game stretch and manages to raise his overall line by .030/.027/.100 a remarkable feat given that it is already June and this was only four games.

Turns out Mark Prior had a second injury to his right shoulder that was hiding. Harry Pavlidis wonders if that injury might have been around since 2003.

Dan Uggla is on pace to become only the second keystoner in baseball history, Rogers Hornsby being the other, to notch 40+ doubles and 40+ home runs in the same season.

Kyle Boddy takes an in-depth look at this favorite pitcher, Justin Duchscherer.

Justin justifies his continued use of OPS by comparing it to other offensive rate stats for teams over the last three years. He produces the usual results (although, as he kind of admits, this sort of analysis isn’t the best way to judge offensive stats for individual batters). But what I like about his analysis […]