Back around the trade deadline, when the Rangers were trading for a new player every day, I remembered wondering how necessary this really was.  There were definitely some holes, with Kinsler out, first base and catcher being played poorly, and the back end of the rotation was equally bad.  So the ...

UPDATE: We are back up. Our additional outage was due to DNS problems as our web host didn’t bind the IPs for our DNS servers to the network card on our new motherboard. :(

Whew, we’re back. At about 12:00 PM, I started getting txts and emails about the site being down. I contacted our server host ...

It’s been an odd season for me. I haven’t really followed the minors too closely, largely because (1) I’ve been preoccupied with work and (2) the local minors haven’t really been that interesting in terms of prospects this year. Yes, there’s been Jeremy Hellickson and Desmond Jennings at Durham and ...

I attended this symposium two years ago, and it’s well worth it. $25 for students, $45 for non-students, registration link is here. There’s one oral presentation on baseball, four poster presentations specific to baseball, plus this rather intriguing poster presentation:

Never Too Late To Win
by ...

Thanks to my years hanging out at Baseball Think Factory, I have been aware of SABR for quite a while, and have given consideration to joining.  I had planned to attend the convention in St. Louis, then the one in Cleveland.  However, at the time of SABR 37 (St. Louis), my wife was four months ...

This is the season where we can start speculating about which major league teams will be working with which minor league teams come next season, as many Player Development Contracts (AKA working agreements) expire this offseason. Teams have the option, in even-numbered years, of signing two-year or ...

On the way back to the hotel we drunkenly decided it would be wise to instead get dropped off at a 24-hour diner where we combined beer and breakfast food in what’s technically known as a “bad decision.”

The tentative dates for SABR 41 are July 7-10, 2011 in L.A.  Both teams are supposed to be in ...

As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Montgomery, Alabama, on the first leg of my SABR trip. It is currently pouring rain in torrents outside, with one hour and fifty minutes to go before the start of tonight’s game between the hometown Biscuits (Rays’ AA affiliate) and the Tennessee ...

The Red Sox are, of course, not dead yet.  A 5-1 stretch this last week has them still within shouting distance of the Rays and Yankees.  BP’s numbers have the Sox at 25% to make the playoffs (regular playoff odds), 10% (PECOTA-adjusted odds), or 20% (ELO odds).

But the trade deadline has come ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE - This should have been posted last weekend, but I’ve had a great deal of internet woes.  Until Time-Warner fixed a broken line, I was surfing on the crappy phone and on a bad connection in my car at McDonald’s -DS]

This is my All-Star Break report on the Cardinals. It has folded ...