John Patterson gets dumped by the Nationals, which doesn’t even save them much money. He’ll be sure to land on a team willing to pay a little for the chance Patterson can re-capture 2005.

The Reds have forgone using Jay Bruce at the outset of the season, leaving some very upset.

Current MLB scout Frankie Piliere and friend Kiley McDaniel have started a new blog dedicated to bringing some advanced scouting with a statistical flair to the internet.

For those who purchased The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008 (and for those who haven’t, it’s not too late!), we’ve posted a couple updated projection files to the Preview site. The first file contains updated projections and fantasy values, as well as a column with depth charts generously donated by SG of RLYW fame. Otherwise, […]

The Baseball Crank uses Win Shares to project the AL East for the year. In particular, he sees the Tampa Bay Rays a little differently than Baseball Prospectus does.

Curt Schilling checks in with the background of yesterday’s events on/off the ballfield. This seems like a very fair overview by Schilling, as this quote shows: No one party is to blame for any of this. First off everyone is at fault for not getting ALL of this in writing at the time of the […]

Beerleaguer checks in with some of the highlights and lowlights of the Phillies’ Spring Training camp.

Here’s a nice summary piece by Marc Hulet of Baseball Analysts on the status of some of the key Spring Training questions.

This doesn’t have much to do with baseball, but here are three great stories from everyone’s favorite baseball writer, Joe Posnanski, about times he screwed up royally on the job. Which reminds me of one of my own stories… I was a disc jockey at a small radio station in the mid-70’s. Back then, Ford […]

Apparently the Reds and Rays were interested in bringing the aging speedster aboard.