For those of you who follow players that blog here is a new one for you, with a slight spin. Jeff Francoeur, right fielder for the Atlanta Braves, will blog for Delta Airlines this season (one of his principal sponsors). Not only will he talk about his travel experiences but also about baseball. Here is […]

Chris Resop was claimed off waivers from the Angels last October by the Atlanta Braves. He was coming off elbow surgery for tendinitis that ended his 2007 season in July. Prior to this year, his fastball was in the 93-95 mph range (his average fastball speed clocked by PITCHf/x during 2007 was 94.5 mph on […]

Available here from our friends at Heater Magazine.

So I’m trying to watch some games on the MLB website, and it just isn’t working. I paid $100 for this service, and I can’t watch a game on one of the most important days of the season? Is it working for anyone else out there?

FoxSports comes out with their Opening Day power rankings. THT’s own version of the power rankings, the Dartboard, will debut this coming weekend.

Tango has the Bill James interview embedded at this site.

JC Bradbury lists two possible important jobs for managers and why some are paid a lot more when there doesn’t appear to be any quantitative reason why; PR work and being a signal to fans about the organization’s commitment to winning.

Here at the Hardball Times, we have analyzed Retrosheet data to evaluate outfield throwing and we publish our results from time to time on the site. For example, you can read about our evaluation of outfield arms in 2007 here. Now, thanks to technical wiz Bryan Donovan, these outfield arms stats are available in our […]

This being the first day of continental major league baseball in 2008, the New York Times is running an analysis of Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak in its editorial section. The two writers—a math professor and graduate student at Cornell—ran 10,000 simulations of major league history, using actual season totals, to calculate the most likely record […]

THT’s “senior writer” (who knew we had titles around here?) Steve Treder is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about baseball in the next 100 years. 100 years, of course, being the amount of time the Cubs last won a pennant. It’s a nice article, and even includes quotes from people called “futurists.” Is Steve […]