True Blue LA is concerned over Juan Pierre’s increase in playing time. Who had one week in the “how long Matt Kemp will last as a starter” pool?

The guys at Statistically Speaking engage in a roundtable with our own John Beamer. Among other things, there’s an interesting discussion of manager evaluation.

There’s a new blog in town about pitching mechanics. It’s Kyle Boddy’s Driveline Mechanics and it looks to be another good entry in the field. If you haven’t seen other similar sites, check out Chris O’Leary’s website (Chris also posts at Baseball Digest Daily), the Saber Scouting blog and Alex Eisenberg’s work at Baseball Intellect […]

Dan Turkenkopf takes a look at which catchers best frame pitches using Pitch f/x data. Fascinating stuff.

This is a couple of days old, but I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this great scouting report on Kei Igawa from Saber-scouting.

Here’s a nice piece from the New York Times comparing Ichiro and Wee Willie Keeler.

There’s a baseball brouhaha on the Internet, stoked by Bugs and Cranks’ contention that Bill James “thinks steroids fueled the Twins’ two championship.” James didn’t say that… What he said, in the Bill James Gold Mine, was that Kirby Puckett’s and Gary Gaetti’s years in 1984 were two of the greatest “underproducers” relative to their […]

The Hardball Times’ team stats for 2008 are up and running. I hope to post these every morning during the season. There’s a lot to digest on the page, which features what we consider to be unique and cutting-edge ways of understanding each team’s performance. Consider, for example, the woebegone Giants, whose fielders are 13 […]

This needs to be mentioned more than it is: During his relief apperance for the Braves last night, Chris Resop went to left field for a batter before going back to the mound to lose the game. Pirates starter Ian Snell also showed up as a pinch-runner, giving this game a hearty dose of managerial […]

A look at Johnny Cueto’s big-league debut using PITCHf/x data. Johnny Cueto is a 22-year-old right-handed pitcher from the famous Dominican baseball city of San Pedro de Macoris. He was signed by the Cincinnati Reds in 2004. He pitched in Rookie ball and A-ball in 2005 and 2006, and in 2007 he shot through the […]