Eric Seidman takes a look over at FanGraphs. Tigers fans might not be happy. Seidman identifies the main culprit as being a decrease in strikeout rate and an increase in walk rate, and attributes it to a decrease in average fastball velocity from 94.8 mph to 93.0 mph. While it seems as good an explanation […]

This short Boston Globe piece on Julian Tavarez gives an interesting little slice of life for baseball players, describing how rookie Craig Hansen found out that he was staying with the Red Sox when Tavarez started walking around the hotel dining room saying good bye to his former teammates. I always find it interesting to […]

David Pinto points out that the Cubs have scored an average of 5.9 runs a game, but they have yet to score either four or five runs in a single game. That is just nuts. Across the major leagues, teams have scored either four or five runs almost 30% of the time.

Pizza Cutter has a nice article on what happens to starting pitchers as they stay in the game. My quick interpretation: every ten pitches adds about .04 runs per game, so a pitcher who has a 4.00 ERA at the beginning of a game has become 4.40 ERA pitcher by his 100th pitch. I’m unclear […]

Jeff Sullivan and I were looking around Baseball-Reference’s team BABIP numbers a bit and, to paraphrase Jeff’s words: Part of it has to do with the batted ball profile yielded by the pitching staff, but if the Rays keep up their current pace, their 2008 defense would be 248 plays better than their 2007 defense […]

Here is a hilarious video featuring Carlos Zambrano. Be sure to watch it until the end. (Hat tip: Paul DePodesta).

It looks like San Diego Padres front office member, Paul DePodesta, now has a blog. He also mentions Ducksnorts, a blog written by THT writer Geoff Young. Cool stuff.

MGL looks at hitters who have extraordinarily good or bad Aprils and what they end up doing for the rest of the season. It’s an interesting phenomenon especially how it dovetails with his look into the same effects for pitchers.

Dave Cameron brings Ryan Ludwick, the unexpected provocateur of helping St. Louis craft a winning team thus far, under the microscope to see if his early season performance is sustainable.

Batter’s Box goes back and traces the baseball lineage of our current group of General Managers. It is interesting to note just how many personal connections there are across these people.