On Saturday night, as you may have heard, a bit of odd baseball history was made when Marlins infielder Jose Reyes muffed a play for the 500,000th recorded error in baseball history. It wasn’t that long ago that baseball had its 250,000th home run (Gary Sheffield hit it on Sept. 8, 2008). Last year on […]

Twenty years ago today occurred one of the more memorable baseball fights of recent times. It wasn’t the most violent or long-lasting fight, so purely as a fight, it wasn’t that memorable. But it wasn’t just another baseball fight. It was a fight between two people wearing the same uniform. In the clubhouse. In front […]

In 2003, former THT writer Aaron Gleeman, invented a statistic called Gross Productive Average. The statistic was meant to be a better version of OPS, by using: {exp:list_maker}A simple acronym (GPA) A scale close to batting average, which is easier for the casual fan to interpret than OPS Weighting on-base percentage onto the same scale […]

As the Brewers spent most of the 2012 floundering as a result of atrocious relief pitching, it was easy for the mainstream sports media to ignore Ryan Braun’s performance. Quietly, Braun has been putting together another MVP candidate-caliber season. Some will claim that Braun was a victim of the coastal bias in sports media coverage, […]

Cardinals 2, Dodgers 1: A must-win for both teams if they wanted to stop the bleeding, but a muster-win for L.A. since they’re behind in the standings. Just didn’t happen, though. Lance Lynn, back in the rotation in a spot start, allowed one run in six innings and struck out seven to give the Cardinals a […]

So often, and of course in our Twitter-infused, must-have-it-now sports world, we want to know immediately what will be the impact of things like big trades. Who won the Josh Beckett-Adrian Gonzalez-Carl Crawford to Los Angeles fiasco of a trade? You couldn’t listen to sports-talk radio the next day without being inundated with that question, […]

25 years ago today, one of baseball’s most amazing streaks came to an end. It’s not the most heavily publicized streak, but it’s a truly impressive iron man streak. Naturally, it involves Cal Ripken Jr. On Sept. 14, 1987, Cal Ripken took an inning off, ending a streak of playing 8,423 consecutive innings. As it […]

Brewers 8, Braves 2; Phillies 3, Marlins 1; Padres 3, Cardinals 2: Um, yeah, this keeps happening. The Cardinals, beneficiaries of an epic collapse by the Braves last year are themselves collapsing. And Philly and Milwaukee look like they’ll never lose again.  Just insanity in the NL Wild Card race these days. It’s kinda great. […]

Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers is Ray Negron’s story of a career spent in baseball, mostly with the New York Yankees, and how some of the biggest names in Yankees history impacted his life. It is an unapologetically biased retelling of relationships Negron built throughout his years in the organization. […]

The philosophy for the American League-leading Texas Rangers has been pretty simple so far this season: let our pitching keep us in the game and wait for the big bats to produce at the right times. How else do you explain a team with 83 wins and the 12th-best ERA (3.87) in all of baseball? […]