Pizza Cutter has a nice study of foul ball tendencies at Statistically Speaking. This is the first analysis of foul balls that I can remember, and it’s good that he distinguishes between two types of foul ball hitters.

Francisco Liriano returned to the big leagues Sunday, 17 months after undergoing Tommy John surgery. What did we learn about his stuff? During spring training, scouts expressed concerns about Twins left hander Francisco Liriano’s stuff in comparison to his dominant pre-injury repertoire in 2006. Liriano struggled to locate his fastball and had particular trouble with […]

Edwin Jackson is off to a fast start in the traditional pitching categories, but a quick look at the untraditional ones reveals reasons to be skeptical that its going to continue.

Construction crews were diverted for a few hours in New York to jackhammer through concrete and dig up the buried Boston jersey at new Yankee Stadium. It has the Yankee brass talking possible criminal charges which is ridiculous.

Oakland is sitting atop the AL West for now, but there are some good reasons to not expect that to last, so says their own blogging fans.

FanGraphs kicks off its new addition, daily commentary, with Dave Cameron’s, of USS Mariner fame, piece on Gabe Kapler’s return.

There are several good reasons to be rooting for the Rays this year.

Ever since I was a kid watching Giants games on TBS, Greg Maddux has been one of my favorite pitchers. Here’s an awesome, if someone fluffy, profile done on him, chronicling some nice anecdotes about his ability to throw pitches catchers can catch with their eyes closed and other such wonders.

Justin has put together a detailed analysis of Dusty Baker’s lineup choices, compared to some alternatives suggested by Reds fans. His surprising finding is that Baker’s lineup is actually tough to beat (despite leading off with Corey Patterson!). This is some great work by Justin, featuring John Beamer’s Markov spreadsheet (the right tool to use […]

Kyle Boddy has a very nice piece up about Chien-Ming Wang’s pitching mechanics and pitch f/x statistics. The bottom line: Kyle likes what he sees.