Today at THT

TGIF, babies:

Richard Barbieri’s this annotated week in baseball history puts Google Earth to a fantastic use.

Dan Turkenkopf investigates whether pitchers can control how a ball is hit. I won’t even pretend to understand all that, but I do know that some pitchers seem to have every ball hit off of them rattle off bleacher seats, and that can’t be sheer happenstance.

There would have another article today, but after 16 hours of feverish research, I realized that once you control for the 1970s, there is no causal relationship between mustache size and MVP voting.