Thanks to Chris over at Baseball Reference’s Stat of the Day, we learn that Frank Thomas is on the cusp of setting a new major league record: most career plate appearances without a single sacrifice hit.

It’s the song that never ends, it just goes on and on and friends…

Barry Zito was booed during the introductions at the Giants home opener. He’s off to a rough start and his fastball velocity has dipped all the way down to just 82.7 mph over his first 10 innings. (Hattip: Dave Cameron)

A local CPA has started a blog delving into the financial aspects of the Florida Marlins. It’s good stuff.

The 2008 Giants offense is so anemic, even the Onion has noticed after less than two weeks of baseball.

Mitchel Lichtman writes a fascinating post, finding some evidence that hitters struggle against relievers in Tim Wakefield’s starts.

This year, MLBAM unveiled an algorithm for classifying pitches for their Gameday application. How successful is their algorithm? I looked at data from nine pitchers in 14 appearances in the first week and a half of data. The nine pitchers are Tim Hudson, Odalis Perez, Brian Bannister, Jon Lester, Doug Davis, Johnny Cueto, Phil Hughes, […]

This has nothing to do with baseball, but I just love this post exploring the “common wisdom” that red-shirt Enterprise crew members are most likely to die. The surprising finding? Red-shirt crew members are much less likely to die if Kirk “meets” a woman. If this guy were a baseball fan, he’d be a true […]

FishStripes brings us news that top Marlins prospect Andrew Miller is being told to damn the torpedoes and throw as hard as he can. I hadn’t realized what a poor start Miller had gotten off to.

Baseball Analysts’ Marc Hulet continues his excellent series picking apart previous drafts with the 2001 edition.