Fangraphs adds to their posting of pitch types by incorporating leaderboards, such as this one sorting players by average fastball velocity.

Rich Lederer affirms the the two greatest things a pitcher can do is striking people out and generating groundballs.

Bleacher Report has a, well, report on the Padres-Dodgers contest held in China this past week.

Almost since it was posited in the early 1900s, the myth of Abner Doubleday having invented baseball has been debunked. Yet for longer than that, it’s been accepted nearly unanimously by serious baseball historians that the first certifiably organized, recognizable game of baseball occurred on June 19, 1846, between the Knickerbockers and the New Yorks […]

John Lackey is out likely until May with a strained triceps. Lackey joins Kelvim Escobar on the DL to start the season. With the top two in their rotation missing at least all of April, the Angels might not find the road to the AL West crown as easy as some predicted.

Fangraphs deserves a big shoutout as David continues to add new features to his statistical site. Now you can see how often each major league pitcher throws each type of pitch—and the average speed of each pitch type. For instance, 51% of Carlos Marmol’s pitches were sliders last year (seen at the bottom of the […]

James Holzhauer took a look at THT’s Season Preview and found that the team bloggers were 2.6 wins more optimistic than the computer projections. I love it, though comparing our writers to Rick Morrisey is a bit harsh!

Some recent comments by Bob Costas in a Miami Herald column are just the latest in the mainstream media bashing bloggers. What has always bugged me and was pointed out by Craig Calcaterra in the BTF thread discussing the article is why commentators like Costas seem to lack the ability to distinguish between bloggers and […]

Joe P. Sheehan, in his final article for Baseball Analysts graphs pitch locations on 0-0 and 0-2 to compare and contrast.

Kyle Lohse signs with St. Louis and has a chance to post a good season with Dave Duncan as his coach and a poor division to play in.