Kelvim Escobar experienced shoulder discomfort and has stopped his throwing program for now. Escobar never even made it back to throwing off a mound before this surfaced. A return in May is now quite optimistic.

Patrick Sullivan tackles over unders for wins over at Baseball Analysts, introducing his piece with the following introduction: Many would argue that the crux of Sabermetrics is that you can predict a team’s win total by analyzing a team’s ability to score and prevent runs. Virtually all other research aimed at determining what contributes to […]

Phil Birnbaum looks into a Bill James piece that claims that players perform better when approaching round number goals, such as 20 wins. Birnbaum argues that the difference could be attributed more to opportunity, and presents some compelling evidence for his claim in the piece. Personally, I think Birnbaum is probably right, and there’s not […]

One of my readers over at The Disabled List Informer had posed a question pertaining to Adrian Beltre and his lingering left thumb pain. The article can be found at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Dan Scotto lays out the case for signing Reed Johnson as a fourth outfielder over at Mets Geek.

Craig Calcaterra reports that the Yankees have already sold 3.8 million tickets for this season.

The Red Sox placed ace Josh Beckett on the DL today. Most projections have the Red Sox a few games better than the Yankees, and losing Beckett for a couple weeks shouldn’t hurt that much; reports of the Red Sox demise seem far too premature, in my opinion. That said, if he’s not going to […]

Despite the fact that most pitchers can generate greater velocity from a higher mound, they can also generate more injuries, too. Nice article here. David Pinto from Baseball Musings directed me to it.

Over at the Yankee Replacement Level Blog, SG has posted the 2008 version of his team projections, using six different sets of player projections. Here is a link to the second post (he created so much info, it took two posts), which includes the average of all projections. SG has the Yankees winning the AL […]

The Good Phight finds each team’s spiritual band comparable. Arizona Diamondbacks are The Eagles: Initially assembled from members of other great groups, they later developed their own look and sound, including ditching the hideous clothes of their early days. Both strongly associated with the desert, and with one unlikely and confusing yet defining work (“Hotel […]