Sky has some good math and perspective on the recent Evan Longoria deal. The Rays’ management team has been very creative with long-term deals and option years for several years now. Every once in a while, they’ll sign a clunker (as in Rocco Baldelli) but it’s a very smart strategy for the team. And, as […]

Just some extra stuff I researched on what early results mean: The league leaders on May 1 of every year since divisional play began (except for strike-shortened years, since the dates are messed up) have the eventual playoff team atop their division/wild card 47 percent of the time. In other words, if this year is […]

Peter Bendix goes in-depth into C.C. Sabathia’s struggles to begin the year. Sabathia is throwing less sliders than in previous years; is he hurt?

No, I’m not joking. Evan Longoria and the Rays agreed to a 9-year deal today. It buys out all of his arbitration years at a guaranteed $17.5 million and then there are three team option years with the potential maximum value of the entire contract at $44 million.

Last night, my infant son woke us up at 4 am. It was your typical night-waking: I picked him up, shooshed him in his ear, rocked him for a few minutes, and he went right back to sleep. He was asleep, but now I was wide awake. I stumbled out to the living room, fired […]

Another former THT writer, Dan Fox, has been hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to be their Director of Baseball Systems Development. Dan has written for Baseball Prospectus the last two years, but he contributed to THT for a year before that, so we take a little bit of pride in Dan’s success. By my count, […]

This isn’t exactly shocking news, but Miguel Tejada acknowledged an age discrepancy today that he is actually two years older than his date of birth listed in media guides. To Tejada’s credit, his driver’s license, green card, etc all list the correct date of birth.

Royals Review brings us a good meta-analysis of the pitch counts debate.

The Brewers owner is reaping the benefits of his work with the franchise and the fans don’t seem to begrudge him his spoils.

John Sickels profiles the young Brewers pitcher.