Here’s something we never thought of: graphing baseball stats as human faces.

A look at the ways and wiles of Padres CEO Sandy Alderson.

“Baseball has never been more popular, or more expensive to watch.” So says Team Marketing Report in their Fan Cost Index.

David Appelman takes a cool look at how well pitch identification data from Baseball Info Solutions matches up with that gathered from Pitch f/x, and finds that it matched up relatively well for Tim Hudson and not so well for Odalis Perez on Opening Day. Data quality issues are one of the most important under […]

Being a complete idiot, I forgot to include our staff’s attempt to predict the uncertain in our recent prediction article. So below the fold find out whose #### we think will work in this year’s playoffs. Ben Jacobs Red Sox over Mets Brandon Isleib Tigers over Brewers Richard Barbieri Cubs over Tigers Chris Jaffe Red […]

Andrew Hess, the Tigers 19th round draft pick in the 2007 draft, gives some general impressions on his first spring training.

Camden Chat reacts to the deal, which sends Roberts to Chicago for Felix Pie, Ronny Cedeno, Sean Gallagher, Sean Marshall and Donny Veal.

John Sickels gives us the lowdown on Dirk Vadjer, a 17-year-old pitching prospect for the Twins.

I’ll admit it, I picked up Carlos Gomez for the THT Writer’s League yesterday.

The season is underway, and so are the many websites that track it. One site to keep in mind is Greg Rybarczyk’s Hit Tracker, which measures the physical details of each major league home run. The most impressive of yesterday’s home runs was Carlos Guillen’s, which would have gone 458 feet in a “standard” setting […]