Barry Lamar Bonds

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 24, 1964 in Riverside, CA
High School: Serra HS (San Mateo, CA)
School: Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1st round (6th pick) of the 1985 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 1985. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1986 (Age 21)   vs. CHC 1 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB
Teams (by GP): Giants/Pirates 1986-2007
Agents: Jeff Borris, previously: Dennis Gilbert,Rod Wright,Scott Boras [*]
Final Game: September 26, 2007 (Age 43)   vs. SDP 3 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Relatives: Son of Bobby Bonds and Cousin of Reggie Jackson
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• 1/26 StoopSports.com: Can’t Run, Can’t Hide: Kenny Garner- Two weeks ago, the National Baseball Hall of Fame voters were forced to make one of the toughest decisions in baseball...
• 1/25 mlbreports.com : Brian Wilson’s Legacy In San Francisco: Like us on Facebook here Friday January 25, 2013 Kyle Holland (MLB Reports intern): Brian Wilson has been a member of the San...
• 1/24 Billy-Ball.com: Homers by team for the 500+ homer hiters: I was writing about Ken Griffey being inducted into the Mariners HOF and I wrote:   Griffey is sixth on the career home-run...
• 1/23 Wahoo Sam: 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame election results: The voters have spoken. In one of the most anti**** elections in the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no one was elected....
• 1/23 Wahoo Sam: The Big Six and Leftovers: How the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot results will look: Early in January, the results of the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting will be announced, in what should prove to be the most...
• 1/22 Tyler's Think Tank: The Man: Stan "The Man" Musial was one of the ten best baseball players of all time, the National League's answer to Ted Williams...
• 1/22 Bleeding Yankee Blue: PETE ROSE A REALITY STAR? NOW I'VE SEEN EVERYTHING: So, there I was, as I am every weekday morning, getting ready for work with the television news blaring in the background...
• 1/21 RoxPile: The Case Against Carl Pavano For The Rockies: The Colorado Rockies are open to a myriad of mediocre options when it comes to bolstering their awful starting rotation. It is...
• 1/21 Tyler's Think Tank: Baseball's All-African-American Team: In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here's my MLB All-African-American team. Only players who began their careers after Jackie...
• 1/21 The Flagrant Fan: The all time African-American team: Saying, "Happy Martin Luther King" day just doesn't feel right. And it is mostly because I lived through those days and they...
• 1/20 The Baseball Haven: Stan Was The Man: When Stan Musial passed away on January 19th, the baseball world lost a special talent and person. Commishioner Bud Selig stated:...
• 1/19 PaulLebowitz.com: Lance Armstrong’s Half-Hearted Allocution: Lance Armstrong, as was shown during his cancer diagnosis and treatment, is capable of nobility. It also showed him to be defiant,...
• 1/18 Chicken Friars: Not Your Father’s Hall of Fame (Part Two): This year the Hall of Fame shutout left us with many swirling questions making waves throughout the Baseball and Sport communities....
• 1/18 Baseball Musings: Cartilage Contained: For those wondering about the amount of damage to Alex Rodriguez‘s hip cartilage, the news is good: Alex Rodriguez’s surgeon,...
• 1/17 Call to the Pen: Alex Rodriguez Still Has Much To Play For: He’s going to have to go through some pain and suffering to make it happen, and the recent Hall of Fame vote has to be discouraging...
• 1/16 Radical Baseball: Home Run Proficiency: Bonds, McGwire, Sosa.: Let's zero in on the big three bad boys of the steroid era.  There will be more in future posts on others.  Click this...
• 1/16 Radical Baseball: 35: Home Runs and Age.: Read this post.  It covers most of the 35 home run (HR) season stuff. Thursday, January 3, 2013 Home Run Proficiency...
• 1/16 Radical Baseball: Lance Armstrong scandal: lessons for baseball?: Investigative reporter.  That's how The Times describes the author of the article below.  That should be instructive...
• 1/15 Jays Journal: Melky Has Chance To Re-Prove Himself: No one knows for sure if PED’s (performance enhancing drugs) make a professional athlete better at their sport. Especially since...
• 1/15 Cubbies Crib: Obligatory Hall of Fame Post; Good Job, BBWAA: A few days ago the Baseball Writers Association of America voted for the 2013 class of Hall of Fame eligible players and, to no...
• 1/14 Baseball Jerks: Playing God: Bonds and Clemens: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens didn’t get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. This may seem sad, and it may seem ‘correct.’...
• 1/14 SocraticGadfly: Sorry, Texans, cycling fans, some libs — no sympathy for #Lance: Lance and Oprah, together forever in eternity?/Yahoo Sports I don't need to see Oprah's "interview," because I know that...
• 1/14 Radical Baseball: Home Run Proficiency Career: Bonds, Aaron, Mays, Ruth.: Starting to look at batters with at least 493 home runs (HR). Rk Player HR From To Age G PA ...
• 1/14 El Maquino: THE P.E.D. SITUATION WAS MADE MORE THAN CLEAR BACK IN ’69: When Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were decisively locked out of the Hall of Fame this year, many an outside pundit jeered the...
• 1/14 Jays Journal: 2013 Eligible Blue Jays Denied Hall Of Fame Entry And What It Means For The Future: (This piece, while lighter on Blue Jays content than most my other posts, will deal with several issues that the National Baseball...
• 1/14 Call to the Pen: Baseball Increases Drug Testing: Kind of overshadowed last week by the announcement that the Baseball Writers Association of America was standing pat and not voting...
• 1/14 Motor City Bengals: Marcus Thames Retires As Player, Gets Hired As Minor League Hitting Coach: Former Detroit Tigers outfielder Marcus Thames has decided to call it a playing career after spending parts of 10 seasons in the...
• 1/14 Bleeding Yankee Blue: SHOULD ROGER CLEMENS HAVE BEEN "SHUT OUT" OF COOPERSTOWN?: It's been a few days since the Hall of Fame voting... and I have to tell you, I needed to get my point of view into this...
• 1/14 Full Spectrum Baseball: Aaron Sele And Other Hall Of Fame Thoughts: ....no one has to vote for ten players, but it still does not change the fact that someone voted for Aaron Sele. One more time....
• 1/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: An Interview With Patrick Languzzi, The Man Behind The Petition To Get Dwight Evans Back On The Hall of Fame Ballot: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table...
• 1/13 YankeeAnalysts.com: Cap Anson is in the Hall of Fame: Cap Anson played primarily for the team that would go on to become the Chicago Cubs in the late 19th century. He was one of the...
• 1/13 Bleeding Yankee Blue: HANK AARON IS MY HOME RUN KING: Great journalism and a great nugget by Ken Davidoff of the New York Post.  He did something no one else did.  Instead...
• 1/13 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Making Sense of the Hall of Fame Vote: By Bob Toth There were undoubtedly some surprises that stemmed from the announcement Wednesday afternoon that no players from...
• 1/13 Bleeding Yankee Blue: DEFENDING THE HONOR OF BASEBALL: For only the eighth time in the history of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the BBWAA voters declined to elect any new...
• 1/12 PaulLebowitz.com: Lance Armstrong, MLB, Drugs and Confessions of Convenience: Lance Armstrong is preparing to provide what’s been referred to as either a confession or a “limited” confession (whatever...
• 1/12 mlbreports.com : Roger Clemens: A Cardboard God Comes Into Focus: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, January.12, 2013 By Saul Wisnia,  Red Sox Correspondent (Read his blog ‘Fenway Reflections’...
• 1/12 mlbreports.com : Roger Clemens: A Cardboard God Comes Into Focus: Like us on Facebook here Saturday, January.12, 2013 By Saul Wisnia,  Red Sox Correspondent (Read his blog ‘Fenway Reflections’...
• 1/12 MLBRandomFandom: What Happened to the Hall of Fame?: Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 1/12 The High Phive: Baseball’s Hypocrisy Hall of Fame: As we go into the traditional baseball Hall of Fame weekend this summer, there will be no inductions of players into Cooperstown....
• 1/11 Baseball News Source: MLB – Players Union Reach Agreement: Expand Testing For HGH: Major League Baseball and the players Association reach an agreement that will expand testing for human growth hormone (HGH) throughout...
• 1/11 SocraticGadfly: #Stlcards fans - should La Russa be kept out of Hall of Fame?: Now that the dust has settled from no living baseball players being elected to Cooperstown this year, as the black cloud of roiding...
• 1/11 Redbird Rants: Musings from an Optimistic Redbird Fan – 2013: Hall of Fame – Once again there’s controversy regarding the baseball Hall of Fame voting. This time, no eligible players were...
• 1/11 Rising Apple: The Trial of Mike Piazza: In 1989, the man considered by many to be the greatest hitting catcher of all-time was elected into the Hall of Fame on his first...
• 1/11 Mets360.com: Will the Wilpons thumb their nose at Selig over Mike Piazza?: Major League Baseball officially announced their choices for the Hall of Fame. Well, actually, they didn’t announce anyone...
• 1/11 Blog Red Machine: BBWAA Should Get A Dishonorable Discharge from Hall of Fame Voting: The 2013 ballot for the Hall of Fame was stocked with some of the best careers ever assembled on one ballot. The voting results...
• 1/11 WasWatching: Top 30 Retired Batters, Career WAR, Not In The HOF, To Bat In 6+ All-Star Games: Still with me? Here is the list: Rk Player WAR/pos From To Age G PA R H 2B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG 1 Barry Bonds 158.1 1986...
• 1/11 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Timing Everything in MLB Drug Testing Announcement: On Thursday, Major League Baseball and the Player's Union quietly announced that they were expanding drug testing in the...
• 1/11 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Burnitz a Quick Cup of Coffee With Tribe Before Becoming a Regular: By Craig Gifford Jeromy Burnitz did not start his career with the Cleveland Indians. However, the power-hitting outfielder did...
• 1/11 Bleeding Yankee Blue: MAYBE IT'S NOT AROD'S FAULT?: OK, OK, I will admit, I was one of those booing fans in Yankee Stadium as we lost yet another game to our Baltimore nemeses’,...
• 1/11 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 36: Situated on an Isthmus: So I moved to Wisconsin last week, which I think I told y’all about. And it’s great so far–I miss Wawa, and...
• 1/11 WahoosOnFirst: Cooperstown Turning into Hall of Shambles: As a baseball fan, I am appalled at the Baseball Writers Association of America. I can understand the loathing that some have...
• 1/10 Blog Red Machine: The Halls of Immortality: So to quote Count Adhemar in the movie A Knight’s Tale, “You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have...
• 1/10 Baseball Analytics: Who Are The Best Players To Fall Off The HOF Ballot In Year One?: Lofton's all-around game failed to impress BBWAA voters during his first -- and unfortunately last -- year of Hall of Fame eligibility....
• 1/10 Eye On the Tigers: Changing the HOF – No One Left Behind: The 2013 Hall of Fame class has been released and for only the 8th time since its inception, no one was elected.  This has...
• 1/10 Call to the Pen: Hall Of Fame Under Siege: The nice brick building at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown is pretty much a bunker today, one day after the results of the most...
• 1/10 Southside Showdown: The Hall of Fame and engaging history: Wednesday’s announcement that no players would receive the honor of induction into the Hall of Fame was easy to see coming....
• 1/10 Kings of Kauffman: Lack of Leadership Makes for Hall of Shame: Ridiculous. That sums up my opinion of what happened with the Hall of Fame votes cast by the Baseball Writers Association of America....
• 1/10 Yanks Go Yard: Yanks Go Yard Radio Show: Hall Of Fame Roundtable: On Wednesday, the Hall of Fame voting results were announced. This voting result was most important to me because it contained...
• 1/10 Venom Strikes: Hall of Fame Perspective: It’s Not the Voter’s Fault: This year’s Hall of Fame vote brought about its fair share of scrutiny and the announcement yesterday that no one would be enshrined...
• 1/10 WSJ Daily Fix: The Cooperstown Waiting Game: The Count: The last two times baseball writers didn't elect anyone to the Hall of Fame, plenty of the rejected players eventually...
• 1/10 For Baseball Junkies: Knowing Our Roll - The Reaction to HOF Judgment Day: Disinterested in the Hall of Fame vote, Bonds retreated to Hawaii. Yesterday was a sad day for...
• 1/10 MLB Dirt: Hall of Fame Voters Make A Point at Piazza’s Expense: What kind of baseball world do we live in today? Aaron Sele, Steve Finley, and Julio Franco all received Hall of Fame votes. Franco...
• 1/10 Full Spectrum Baseball: The Hall Will Be A Bit Emptier This YearThe first page in baseball’s history of the “steroid era” has been written....
• 1/10 i70baseball.com: Mark McGwire’s Hall of Fame votes should frame Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds debate: The result of this year’s Hall of Fame election, in which no payers were elected, is already controversial enough, but the number...
• 1/10 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY I'M ASHAMED TO BE A BASEBALL FAN TODAY: Well, the BBWAA has done it. They have made their point. These dudes have created such a mess of the Hall of Fame voting...
• 1/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Pablo Sandoval: What to Expect From the Kung-Fu Panda: Ladies and gentlemen, I am stumped. I have followed his whole career extremely closely and am still pretty stumped. What More......
• 1/10 PaulLebowitz.com: The Hall of Fame of Apathy: It’s a byproduct of the times we live in that not only does the vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame have to be counted, but we...
• 1/10 MetsToday.com: Sele Not Elected to HOF: The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced that no one was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year....
• 1/9 Rising Apple: Voters Close Hall of Fame Doors On Mike Piazza; My Reaction: In perhaps the most controversial Hall of Fame ballot ever assembled, the bodies who comprise the BBWAA have spoken.  There will...
• 1/9 Nolan Writin': The Hall Of Fame Has Become An Exercise In Arrogance: Baseball’s Hall of Fame is a joke. And we still don’t understand the punchline. Back in 1994, before I ever dug my...
• 1/9 Blog Red Machine: And None Shall Pass: Shall pass the voting requirement, that is. At 2 PM ET today, Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson announced on MLB Network...
• 1/9 Baseball Musings: The Causes of the 1990s: I responded to this comment by one of long time readers of Baseball Musings, and thought that I should bring it to the front page....
• 1/9 Splash Hit Blog: Analysis: Barry Bonds Was Good: I joined a podcast today, and to prepare for it, I feverishly prepared some great Barry Bonds numbers to back his Hall of Fame-worthy...
• 1/9 Splash Hit Blog: Hall of Fame: Who’s Next: With the addition of nobody to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown this year for Baseball’s Hall of Fame, we prepare for 2014,...
• 1/9 Baseball Big Bro. Proj.: Hall of Fame Results Show No Logic: Well, the votes are in and as some predicted, not a single player achieved induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday. This...
• 1/9 Through The Fence Baseball: Nobody gets into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Really?: In an article during last season’s home stretch, I voiced my consternation about what I think is an excessive, and in many...
• 1/9 Obstructed View: Colin Wyers on the Hall of Fame electing no one: Colin Wyers wrote an excellent article for Baseball Prospectus in response to the BBWAA not electing a single player on a ballot...
• 1/9 My Pinstripes: BBWAA Snubs MLB Eligibles For Hall: Everyone knew that this year's Baseball Hall of Fame vote would be an interesting one. Accused performance enhancing...
• 1/9 Blogging Mets: Digesting Hall of Fame Voting: It’s been a crazy day in baseball, what with the Hall of Fame voting announced and no one getting in. In between posting...
• 1/9 Baseball Jerks: The Hall Doesn’t Call for Anyone in 2013: For the eighth time ever, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America has pitched a shutout. The results of the annual Hall...
• 1/9 Crashburn Alley: On Baseball History: Fair warning: This is just me rambling and getting personal a bit. The results of the Baseball Writers Association of America...
• 1/9 Baseball Musings: Schilling on the Hall: ESPN quotes a number of their baseball analysts on the Hall of Fame vote, but I liked Curt Schilling‘s second comment the...
• 1/9 i70baseball.com: The Baseball Writers Failed To Send A Message: All the debate is over and the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) has decided for the eighth time in history to not...
• 1/9 Baseball News Source: Baseball Hall Of Fame Vote: Writers Say No to Everyone for 2013: Craig Biggio’s 3060 career hits were not enough for induction into the Hall of Fame In a not totally unexpected vote the...
• 1/9 Yankees Fans Unite: Yankees Offseason Notes: No one gets elected into the Hall of Fame: For the first time since 1996, no player had been elected into the Hall of Fame. The results were announced on MLB Network at...
• 1/9 Through The Fence Baseball: BBWAA delivers a shutout to the Baseball Hall of Fame: The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) threw a shutout today when, for only the second time in 42 years, no players...
• 1/9 The Writer's Journey: The 2013 Hall of Fame vote: Craig Biggio and Mike Piazza got less than they deserved. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa got far more than they deserved....
• 1/9 Blogging Mets: Mets Statement on Mike Piazza Hall of Fame Snub: Jeff Wilpon has issued a statement regarding Mike Piazza‘s snub by the Hall of Fame voters. Piazza received 57% of the vote,...
• 1/9 Blogging Mets: Complete Hall of Fame Voting: Here is the complete Hall of Fame vote, with no one getting the 75% necessary for induction. Players who received less than 5%...
• 1/9 Wahoo Sam: 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame election results: The voters have spoken. In one of the most anti**** elections in the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no one was elected....
• 1/9 The Baseball Haven: 2013 MLB Hall of Fame Ballot and Voting Issues: ESPN.com reported that only Craig Biggio was likely to be voted into Cooperstown when the ballots were official on Wednesday....
• 1/9 Baseball Analytics: Hall of Fame Live Reaction Log: Here are some quotes related to today's MLB Hall of Fame Announcements: "My view (and I may have a vote in 7 years) is that voters...
• 1/9 Bleeding Yankee Blue: HALL OF FAME BLAH: NO ONE ELECTED IN: The frame grab above is from the film History of the World Part I.  It's a Mel Brooks flick that was way ahead of it's...
• 1/9 SOX & Dawgs: BBWAA Elects No One to 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Class: For the first time since 1996 and eighth time in history, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) has elected...
• 1/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: No one voted in as the BBWAA has made a joke of the Hall of Fame: There were plenty of players that compare favorably to players already in the Hall of Fame this year, but they won’t be...
• 1/9 It's About the Money (Stupid): BBWAA elects no one to the Hall of Fame: If Jack Morris had ever pitched this kind of shutout he would have been elected to the Hall of Fame years ago. Faced with arguably...
• 1/9 Blogging Mets: Mike Piazza Not Elected to Hall of Fame: It was the news every Mets fan dreaded — Mike Piazza was not elected to the Hall of Fame. Certainly this is unfair, but...
• 1/9 Blogging Mets: No One Elected to Hall of Fame: It was the greatest Hall of Fame Ballot since the likes of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson graced the first one —...
• 1/9 SF Giants Rumors: Barry Bonds, The Hall of Fame Should Be Chanting Your Name: It’s that time of the year again, everyone is going to put in their two cents about which players should or shouldn’t...
• 1/9 El Maquino: A FUTURE WRITER’S REVISED HALL BALLOT [UPDATED WITH RESULTS]: We’re mere minutes away from the Hall of Mess announcement, and according to online straw polls, no one’s getting...
• 1/9 SocraticGadfly: Wow ... nobody elected to #Cooperstown: I thought for For the roiders, they have a new enemy, who may reflect many writers' thoughts.  Ken Burns calls them "****...
• 1/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: My hypothetical Hall of Fame ballot…2013 edition: They announce the Hall of Fame winners today so I thought I would share my thoughts on the ballot and tell you whom I thought...
• 1/9 Through The Fence Baseball: Will anyone get voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today?: The voting results for the Baseball Hall of Fame will be released today, and it’s looking more and more like there may not...
• 1/9 Mets360.com: Mike Piazza’s Hall Of Fame Clock: A true Mets hero begins what we all hope will be a short journey this afternoon. You may have read somewhere that this is Mike...
• 1/9 Blog Red Machine: The HoF: A Distorted Image of Baseball Validity: Everyone has an opinion on the Hall of Fame. But not everyone has one that counts. That prestigious honor is preserved for baseball...
• 1/9 Phillies Nation: If I Had a 2013 HOF Ballot…: This post is not particularly Phillies-related but it is a highly-relevant topic. This year’s Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot...
• 1/9 Baseball News Source: Hall of Fame: Does Barry Bonds Deserve Vote From BBWAA?: Barry Bonds will find out today about induction into the Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers do not report...
• 1/9 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: It’s the Best Day of the Year: …because after the Hall of Fame ballot is announced today, we’re the longest possible time away from having to deal...
• 1/9 Radical Baseball: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, Sosa.: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa. What you thought they were Conquest, War, Famine, and Death?  To...
• 1/9 Bleeding Yankee Blue: KEN BURNS HAS A FILTHY MOUTH: I don't want to get involved in the PEDs debate and the Hall of Fame. There are too many gray areas and with the Hall of Fame...
• 1/9 Baseball Reality Tour: 2013 Hall of Fame "Ballot", Part II: Most baseball fans above the age of 10 have been waiting a long time for this year's Hall of Fame ballot. Later today, the Baseball...
• 1/9 Tyler's Think Tank: Projecting A-Rod: Alex Rodriguez is set to go under the knife next Wednesday, when he will have surgery on his left hip. The three-time...
• 1/9 Jays Journal: Reader Weigh In: Blue Jays Hall of Fame Chances: The National Baseball Hall of Fame will televise the results of the 2013 election on Wednesday at 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time....
• 1/8 Baseballhotcorner.com: Fan Fuel on MLB Hall of Fame Ballot: Bagwell and Biggio in?: BY CLAYTON RICHER – FAN FUEL BLOGGER The BBWAA will announce the newest member(s) to be enshrined in baseball’s holy...
• 1/8 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Hall of Fame, Lance Armstrong, Justin Bieber:   Contributors: Eliza Bayne, Zach Pennington, Stephen Arenholtz, Atman Thakrar, Glen Hentz The hottest topics for the week...
• 1/8 The Captain's Blog: Character Counts but Hall of Fame Has No Moral Majority: Character counts. That’s the message baseball writers have sent to Hall of Fame candidates who are even vaguely linked to performance...
• 1/8 Buhner Dot Com: The 2013 Obligatory Baseball Hall Of Fame Ballot Post: You know the deal. Pretty much every person who writes about baseball on their blog has to do a post on "their ballot" for the...
• 1/8 For Baseball Junkies: BBA Hall of Fame Results - Bagwell in a Class of His Own: Yesterday, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance announced member blog Hall of Fame voting results which serves as the official recommendation...
• 1/8 Through The Fence Baseball: TTFB votes on MLB 2013 Hall of Fame; Craig Biggio leads the way: With a talented 2013 class, Through The Fence Baseball (TTFB) followed through with its Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) duties...
• 1/8 Mets360.com: My 2013 Hall of Fame ballot: This year’s ballot is extremely crowded, due to a host of players who should have been elected previously combined with a strong...
• 1/8 Obstructed View: The 2013 Hall of Fame class and the Keltner List: Over a year ago I applied the Keltner List test to Sammy Sosa and figured I’d do the same thing for most of the eligible...
• 1/8 Baseball Jerks: Baseball Hall of Fame Election Preview: The Steroid Era Controversy Begins: The first major event of baseball’s calendar year is the unveiling of the Hall of Fame voting results. Every January, the Baseball...
• 1/8 Baseball Jerks: Baseball Hall of Fame Election Preview: The Steroid Era Controversy Begins: The first major event of baseball’s calendar year is the unveiling of the Hall of Fame voting results. Every January, the Baseball...
• 1/8 Radical Baseball: How come no one is mad at the Babe?: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Home Run hitting on steroids: 1920s? For purposes of this topic, I'll consider the modern HR record...
• 1/8 i70baseball.com: Cooperstown Choices: Barry BondsExamining the 2013 Hall Of Fame ballot and Barry Bonds's career....
• 1/8 Rising Apple: Quick Hits: Jon Heyman’s HOF Ballot: We’re now less than two days away from the results being announced, and the ballots are continuing to trickle out.  This...
• 1/7 Call to the Pen: FanSided Reveals Mock Hall of Fame Vote: The Baseball Writers Association of America will announce the results of the annual Hall of Fame election at 2 pm Eastern on Wednesday,...
• 1/7 SoDo Mojo: Stanton, Upton, and Ethier Trade Rumors: The Mariners are desperate for bats according to several baseball reporters, and they are already in pursuit of three power hitting...
• 1/7 Kings of Kauffman: Hall of Fame Ballots and Battles: If you’re looking for a way to make the Royals relevant in this year’s Hall of Fame voting, here’s a quick primer...
• 1/7 Baseball Musings: IBWAA Vote: The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) conducted a Hall of Fame vote among it’s members. Los Angeles...
• 1/7 Tyler's Think Tank: My Hall of Fame Ballot: After examining the Hall of Fame ballot holdovers and newcomers, here are the ten players I would vote for on my imaginary...
• 1/7 60ft6in.com: Hall of Fools: The 2013 Hall of Fame ballot…. turns intelligent people into fools. The Steroid Era destroyed cherished baseball records....
• 1/7 Redlegs Review: Baseball Bloggers Alliance tabs Jeff Bagwell as lone Hall of Fame selection: The Baseball Bloggers Alliance released the results of its collective Hall of Fame ballot earlier this morning. For those...
• 1/7 MetsToday.com: Why Marty Noble Didn’t Have Mike Piazza On His Hall of Fame Ballot: On Saturday morning, during an interview on MLB Network Radio, Mets.com beat writer Marty Noble told Casey Stern that Mike Piazza...
• 1/6 Radical Baseball: Home Run Proficiency Career: In 1895, the year Babe Ruth was born, 6' 3", 220 pound Roger Connor at age 37 hit 8 home runs (HR) for St. Louis in the National...
• 1/6 mlbreports.com : MLB Player Profile: The Cubs OF Alfonso Soriano: Like us on Facebook here Sunday, January.06, 2013 Alfonso Soriano: Misunderstood, Good, But Never A Fit     Alex Kantecki (Guest...
• 1/5 SocraticGadfly: #Cooperstown candidacies: My summation of baseball Hall of Fame 2013 odds, merits: My general questions about potential baseball Hall of Fame candidates are along these lines: 1. Should he get in this year?...
• 1/5 Tomahawk Take: My Hall of Fame Vote and Dale Murphy: Next Wednesday at 2 PM EST we’ll hear the results of the 2013 voting ballot. For fans with a Braves only outlook, Dale Murphy’s...
• 1/5 Redlegs Review: Official Redlegs Review Hall of Fame Ballot for Readers: On Friday, we unveiled our staff ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Former Houston Astros second basemen Craig...
• 1/5 Mets360.com: What I’ve learned from movies: A lesson for the 2013 Mets: If I’ve learned anything from the great sports movies of the past it’s that a team of unlikely underdogs is more than capable...
• 1/4 Splash Hit Blog: If I Had A Vote and If I Could Vote for > 10: Hall of Fame announcements are set for January 9th on MLB Network and social media is always very abuzz with arguments over this...
• 1/4 Redlegs Review: Redlegs Review endorses Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza for the Baseball Hall of Fame. : After a collection of Redlegs Review writers voiced their opinion on the matter, and cast their vote, RR is prepared...
• 1/4 SocraticGadfly: Will 3rd time be #Cooperstown charm for Jeff #Bagwell?: Long-time Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell, having hit the 56 percent mark last year, is surely hoping BBWAA writers...
• 1/4 El Maquino: TIMEKILLER Q&A: Where do you think Lohse will end up and how long of a deal do you think he gets?  –JP I wish I could answer in full, but...
• 1/4 YankeeAnalysts.com: Why I Deserve To Be In The Hall Of Fame: All the votes are in, and when the ballot results are released on January 9th, we’ll finally know if I’ve been inducted into...
• 1/4 mlbreports.com : Adam Lind: Ready For His Last Season in the Big Leagues: Like us on Facebook here Friday January 4th, 2013 Jonathan Hacohen  (Baseball Writer and Website Founder):   Living in Toronto,...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Steroids & Home Runs: comments on previous post.: I am neither a physicist nor a statistician.  My comments deal only with basic baseball data. Professor Roger G....
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: On the potential of a chemical Bonds: Possible effects of steroids on home run production in baseball: http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob/Tobin_AJP_Jan08.pdf R. G. Tobin Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: BASEBALL WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA lacks "integrity, sportsmanship, character".: I used the search feature of my web browser but I could not find any of those key words that turn Hall of Fame voting into knots: "integrity,...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Curse of the Bambino: breaking the home run record.: wikipedia: Maris remained bitter about the experience. Speaking at the 1980 All-Star Game, he said, "They acted as though I...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Retrosheet: keeper of the flame or flaming out?: This is my first post in a week, since the home run (HR) proficiency post on seasons with at least 35 HR.  I think it is...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Home Run Proficiency relative to League.: Babe Ruth dominates as do other batters of the 1920s and 1930s.    Ruth took spots 1 through 9, 11, 13.  Of...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Babe Ruth's impact on team Home Runs.: Babe Ruth set the season home run (HR) record in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927.  In both 1920 and 1927 Ruth hit more HR than any...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Season Home Run record 2: Bonds, McGwire, Maris.: It's silly to compare the three most recent record holders to Babe Ruth in terms of how much better they were compared to the...
• 1/4 Radical Baseball: Season Home Run record 1: Bonds, McGwire, Maris, Ruth, Craveth.: Click link to view lots of details on these eight modern record setting seasons.  The percent difference is between...
• 1/3 Baseball With Matt: An Interview with My First Current Player 1/3/13: Hey baseball fans!I have yet another interview for you today! This one is pretty special, because it was the first interview I...
• 1/3 Blogging Mets: The History of Steroids in Baseball: With the Hall of Fame voting set to be released next week and such alleged steroids cheats as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy...
• 1/2 SocraticGadfly: Craig Biggio — anti #roiding 'message' man in Hall of Fame 1st shot?: First, you may ask why I call Houston Astros great Craig Biggio a "message" man? Simple. The Astros' long-term second baseman...
• 1/2 The Baseball Haven: Omar Vizquel: A non-Hall of Famer: Some writers for the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) have picked sides on whether certain players are worthy of...

• 12/31 Mets Merized: Hall Of Fame Ballot Deadline Is Tonight: Tonight, December 31, is the deadline for all eligible BBWAA voters to submit their Hall of Fame ballots. My own ballot has already...
• 12/31 SoDo Mojo: Edgar and the Battle for Cooperstown: Much has been written in the last month about Edgar Martinez‘s fourth bid for the Hall of Fame. Here at SoDo Mojo, we’ve...
• 12/31 SocraticGadfly: My 2013 predictions in sports: For any international readers I have, these predictions are largely, but not entirely, US based. 1. The St. Louis Cardinals...
• 12/31 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot -- Bagwell, McGwire, Piazza, Raines and more: I've done Hall of Fame ballot posts in the past, but this one is more than just for me. As a member of the Internet Baseball Writers...
• 12/29 Rising Apple: The Hall of Fame Ballots and Mike Piazza: A few days ago, I had a back and forth on Twitter with writer/talking head Tim Cowlishaw of ESPN’s “Around the Horn.” ...
• 12/28 For Baseball Junkies: 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot - BBA: As members of the BBA, we're eligible to cast an unofficial Hall of Fame vote.  While our vote has no bearing on the actual...
• 12/28 Call to the Pen: Barry Bonds Has Strong Hall of Fame Case: Even before people began suspecting that Barry Bonds might be using performance-enhancing drugs to enhance his performance he...
• 12/28 It's About the Money (Stupid): Just get rid of the character clause: Obviously I don't agree with the conclusions Ken Rosenthal reaches in his Hall of Fame coulmn, at least with respect to steroid...
• 12/28 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Bell’s Long Career Was Short With Cleveland: By Craig Gifford In the late 1980s, the Cleveland Indians found what they had hoped to be their shortstop of the future in Jay...
• 12/28 Behind the Plate: The Great HOF Debate...And Who I'd Put In Does Barry Bonds deserve HOF justice even with his alleged steroid abuse?   BY: AIDAN FLYNN [...] ...
• 12/27 The Captain's Blog: Hideki Matsui a Hall of Famer?: Hideki Matsui will best be remembered for his seven years in pinstripes, but his last three seasons bouncing around the American...
• 12/27 Baseball Musings: Being Albert Pujols and Barry Bonds: The series on similar ballplayers continues with Albert Pujols and Barry Bonds. I grouped the two together as they are close to...
• 12/26 Tyler's Think Tank: 12 Best Baseball Players of 2012: Trout was baseball's bast player in 2012 (ESPN) 1. Mike Trout Unquestionably the most valuable player in baseball this...
• 12/26 SocraticGadfly: Tim Raines — Hall of Fame or not?: Tim Raines, now that Bert Blyleven is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, has become a focus for some sabermetrically inclined fans...
• 12/26 Through The Fence Baseball: End of year countdown: Mike Trout atop best-player list in 2012: As the year winds down to its official close next Monday, we shift from season’s greetings to best-of list countdowns. Here’s...
• 12/25 Tyler's Think Tank: Hall of Fame Ballot Newcomers: The BBWAA's Hall of Fame ballot results will be released two weeks from tomorrow, so expect plenty of debate in the meantime....
• 12/25 The Baseball Continuum: Merry Rickeymas from the Baseball Continuum: You know the story of who inspired this holiday: His birth was an unusual one, but he grew up to perform amazing feats, and spoke...
• 12/24 SOX & Dawgs: My Vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame: This time of year everyone who is a 10-year member of the Baseball Writers Association of America gets to vote for the Baseball...
• 12/23 Call to the Pen: Sammy Sosa Has Hall of Fame Numbers: Lately I’ve been hearing a crazy argument to keep Sammy Sosa out of the Hall of Fame–that his baseball numbers aren’t...
• 12/23 Through The Fence Baseball: Dan Patrick interview with Josh Hamilton fuels the fire in Texas:   I wanted to defend someone I thought I understood. To me, Josh Hamilton was just misunderstood by those who didn’t...
• 12/23 The Baseball Haven: Guest Article: The Great DH Debate: I’m going to introduce myself real quick. My name is Jackson Johnson and I am currently a junior at Jacksonville State University...
• 12/21 The Baseball Haven: The Legend of Bo Jackson: What Might Have Been…: If you grew up in the late 1980′s, you know that there should be a pagan holiday to celebrate Bo Jackson as the God of Tecmo...
• 12/21 Climbing Tal's Hill: Joe Posnanski says Biggio will get in on first ballot: Today on MLB Network’s Clubhouse Confidential, sportswriter, and Hall of Fame voter Joe Posnanski said Craig Biggio will...
• 12/21 The Captain's Blog: The Historical Cost of Baseball Greatness; BR.com Adds Gold Mine of Salary Data: It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that baseball players are an inflationary commodity (click here for a yearly progression...
• 12/20 El Maquino: A FUTURE VOTER’S 2013 HALL OF FAME PICKS: I don’t have a Hall of Fame vote yet, but I’m going to someday which, I think, makes my 2013 Hall picks at least somewhat...
• 12/20 Halo Hangout: Josh Hamilton’s Past, and How it Affects His Future: Last week the Angels inked Josh Hamilton to a five year, $125 million contract. Not bad. One of the kickers in his contract is...
• 12/20 The Baseball Continuum: My five best position players, pitchers, and managers- just in time for the “End of the World”: Well, here it is. One day until the end of the world, according to the Mayans. Never mind that the Mayans actually didn’t...
• 12/19 Blogging Mets: Moron Doesn’t Vote for Mike Piazza for Hall of Fame: Either Ken Davidoff of the New York Post hates the Mets or he is a moron. Or both. First he writes a sleazy column about R.A....
• 12/19 For Baseball Junkies: Knowing Our Roll - December 2012: It has been a while since I've done one of these but there is some great stuff out there on the Baseball Blogosphere right...
• 12/17 Call to the Pen: Mike Piazza Should Be Elected To Hall Of Fame: Tommy Lasorda was one lucky guy because he was loyal to a childhood friend. His pal was named Vince Piazza and Vince had a son...
• 12/17 Kings of Kauffman: Retro Rumors: Barry Bonds and the Royals: After the 2007 season, the Royals had finished last or second to close to it in most significant offensive categories. Second...
• 12/17 Wahoo Sam: The Big Six and Leftovers: How the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot results will look: Early in January, the results of the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting will be announced, in what should prove to be the most...
• 12/16 Rays Colored Glasses: Could Alfonso Soriano Be The Last Piece of the Rays’ 2013 Lineup?: One glaring need remains on the Rays’ roster for 2013: a designated hitter. Nothing is more telling of that than the Rays’ depth...
• 12/15 Bleeding Yankee Blue: ANOTHER MR. 3000: The Yankees are about the big draw, if we weren't, we wouldn't have ever started the trend of signing big players with big...
• 12/14 Eye On the Tigers: Thoughts on Performance Enhancers and the Hall of Fame: Next month baseball writers will be voting on players for the Hall of Fame.  Over the last couple of years, the ballots have...
• 12/14 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Maris, Known for Homer Mark, Hit First Ones With Tribe: By Craig Gifford When Roger Maris hit his then-record 61 home runs in 1961, it came out of nowhere. Few people saw the kind of...
• 12/14 WasWatching: The Greatest Fielding LF Of All-Time Is…: First, start with this list - Rk Player Rfield From To Age G 1 Barry Bonds 175 1986 2007 21-42 2986 2 Luis Gonzalez 88 1990 2008...
• 12/14 Baseball With Matt: An Interview with the Official Historian for MLB 12/14/12: Hey baseball fans!I just received the answers to the interview questions that I sent to.... John Thorn, the Official Historian...
• 12/13 Southside Showdown: Southside Showdown Hall of Fame Vote Roundtable: There’s just too much objectivity in baseball these days. Too many places to find thorough and exhaustive statistics, reliable...
• 12/10 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE 21ST CENTURY BASEBALL PLAYER: IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN: After reading Casey's post WE DON'T NEED SUPERSTARS, WE NEED BELIEVERS, I started thinking: “What does the 21st Century Baseball...
• 12/9 Blog Red Machine: The PEDs Question: Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Barry Larkin Weighs In: Reds Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin used a charity autograph signing event this week to weigh in on the Hall of Fame ballot....
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: Why I Admire the San Francisco Giants: by Mike Kravik Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 12/9 MLBRandomFandom: CONTRIBUTORS WANTED: by Jon BeckerFirst off, I'd like to thank the readers of MLBRandomFandom for coming back time and time again and hopefully enjoying...
• 12/9 Call to the Pen: Royce Clayton, Steve Finley, Jeff Conine One And Done Hall Candidates: For the next month there is going to be a whole bunch of attention on the biggest names that are appearing on the Baseball Hall...
• 12/8 mlbreports.com : When Can The Baseball Writers For The Hall Of Fame Consider Cheating Through PED Use, Or Not?:   Saturday, December.7, 2012 Prof. Wes Reber Porter and Dan Dressman (Special Guest Writers): When the 2013 MLB Hall of Fame...
• 12/7 Justin Jabs: Friday Morning Reader: Marcum thoughts, Counsell staying put, Dickey on the Daily Show and more: I’ve been trying to get into a pattern lately. Every morning, I wake up to the wonderful app Mornings (highly recommended)...
• 12/7 Yanks Go Yard: Grading The Yankees: Raul Ibanez: By the end of spring training, the Raul Ibanez signing was panned by every pundit and Yankee fan alike. The guy hit well below...
• 12/7 Redlegs Review: Getting caught up on the latest Reds news and notes: Christmas may not be for another two and a half weeks, but tomorrow marks an early Christmas of sorts for Reds Country....
• 12/6 SocraticGadfly: A #sabermetrics #WAR need: Managerial Wins Above Replacement: If you're like me, especially at times like Hall of Fame candidate discussion, besides wanting steroid honesty from folks like...
• 12/5 Jays Journal: Blue Jays Hall of Fame Ballot Profile: David Wells: The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released to the Baseball Writers of America Association, and as expected, it has...
• 12/4 MLB Dirt: This May Be Jack Morris’ year to get into the Hall of Fame: On July 26, 1977, Jack Morris took the hill for the very first time at Comiskey Park against the Chicago White Sox. The 22-year-old...
• 12/4 Radical Baseball: Barry Bonds: suppose he hit 53, not 73?: No single season or career home run record. If you convert 20 2001 homers into doubles, the batting numbers of Barry Bonds...
• 12/3 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers check in on R.A. Dickey, but an acquisition doesn't seem likely: It isn't too often a Cy Young award winner is traded less than a month after winning the award, but the Mets are trying to...
• 12/3 SocraticGadfly: What's next for Yankees, #A-Rod? Last place? (And Bonds head size?): Yahoo's Jeff Passan says that the type of hip surgery that's staring Alex Rodriguez in the eyeballs is one for which it takes...
• 12/3 Radical Baseball: Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron: Home Runs.: Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron are one, two in career home runs, yet neither was considered a big time home run hitter during most...
• 12/3 Baseball Musings: Hating Sheffield: Kyle Lobner explains why Milwaukee fans dislike Gary Sheffield. Of course, it was Sheffield’s off-the-field act that left...
• 12/3 Radical Baseball: Physics in Baseball: do performance enhancing drugs increase home runs?: That's the title of a program from my Radical Baseball series on Blog Talk Radio.  Click to go to the webpage that provides...
• 12/3 Call to the Pen: Please Put Barry Bonds In The Hall Of Fame: The time has finally come for Hall of Fame voters to decide the fate of Barry Bonds, one of the greatest baseball players in history....
• 12/2 Jays Journal: Blue Jays Hall of Fame Profile: Fred McGriff: The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released to the Baseball Writers of America Association, and as expected, it has...
• 12/2 PaulLebowitz.com: Meet the New Bonds, Same As the Old Bonds: There’s a combination of childlike innocence and institutionalized lack of empathy with Barry Bonds whenever he speaks publicly....
• 12/2 YankeeAnalysts.com: The most important Hall of Fame ballot in my lifetime: The Hall of Fame released its 2013 ballot recently, and it reads like a who’s who of the greatest players of the 1990′s....
• 12/1 Jays Journal: Blue Jays HOF Ballot Profile: Jack Morris: The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released to the Baseball Writers of America Association, and as expected, it has...
• 12/1 Call to the Pen: Expect Wild Hall Of Fame Voting: It has begun. The ballot for the 2013 Hall of Fame class is being distributed and the members of the Baseball Writers Association...
• 12/1 Radical Baseball: Hall of Fame: is it business or personal?: Many of us are familiar with one of the famous lines from the movie "The Godfather": it's business, it in't personal. However,...
• 12/1 BoSox Injection: From a Whisper to a Scream: The 2013 Hall of Fame Class Gives Us All Pause For Reflection: For those on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot this is a watershed moment as it indeed is for Major League Baseball. The whispers that...

• 11/30 Motor City Bengals: Hall Of Fame Voting Gets Interesting: In a typical year, Hall of Fame voting leaves a little to be desired – as far as excitement is concerned. The real megastars...
• 11/30 Baseball Jerks: Bonds, Clemens, Sosa Deserve To Be In the Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame voters ahould put away their halos and let them in So here we are. It’s time for Major League Baseball’s Hall...
• 11/30 Baseball Jerks: Keep Bonds, Clemens and Sosa Out of the Hall: Baseball has a BCS controversy No, it’s not whether there should be a playoff for a national championship; nor does it have...
• 11/30 Swingin' A's: Former A’s and Their Quest For Cooperstown: If you have ever been to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY you know how overwhelming the experience really...
• 11/30 StlSportsMinute.com: Wiber: Juicers should be left out of Hall of Fame: Juice anyone? The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out and the list goes on and on with former juice heads.  The list...
• 11/29 My Pinstripes: YCN: PED Era Stars Led By Clemens, Bonds on Hall Ballot: This may be one of my last articles for Yahoo, since they have revamped much of the way they operate their contributor...
• 11/29 Venom Strikes: Former AZ D’Back Curt Schilling is on the Hall of Fame Ballot: The ballot for the 2013 Hall of Fame candidates has been released and while much of the talk has centered on “steroid guys”...
• 11/29 The Baseball Haven: Is Curt Schilling a Hall of Famer?: The 2013 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame class is one for the ages. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, and Rafael Palmeiro...
• 11/29 Baseball News Source: Not Everyone Thinks Steroids Should Exclude Stars From HOF: Yesterday we said that 2013 may be the year that we see a shift in philosophy towards the steroid era players. New York Times...
• 11/29 AroundTheFoghorn: 2013 Giants Hall of Fame Nominees: Yesterday, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America formally announced the 2013 nominees for the Hall of Fame. Among...
• 11/29 Rising Apple: Mike Piazza Debuts on Hall of Fame Ballot; Deal for Wright is Closer Than We Think: Mike Piazza is officially taking his first crack at being selected into the Hall of Fame, as he was announced on the ballot yesterday....
• 11/29 WahoosOnFirst: Six Former Indians Make 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot: Six former Cleveland Indians players appear on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot, which was publicly released Wednesday afternoon....
• 11/28 El Maquino: I’D LET BONDS AND CLEMENS INTO COOPERSTOWN… I GUESS: So the Hall of Fame ballot was released today, and of course the three guys that matter this time around are Barry Bonds, Roger...
• 11/28 60ft6in.com: Hall of Fame Morals: When it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame, they need to either change the record books, or let in everybody that cheated. Roger...
• 11/28 The Flagrant Fan: One Fan's Hall of Fame Ballot: The BBWAA released the official ballot for the 2013 Hall of Fame today and by now you have all seen it and have read a dozen...
• 11/28 Southside Showdown: Hall of Fame Candidates Announced: The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has published the official 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot. It’s nothing you couldn’t...
• 11/28 SocraticGadfly: Clemens, Bonds officially on HOF ballot: Bonds & Clemens together forever in eternity/Yahoo Sports It's official, baseball fans! Big Head (Barry Bonds)...
• 11/28 Baseball Musings: Hall of Fame Ballot: The 2013 Hall of Fame ballot is out. The first time class is very deep, and very controversial. As for the returning players,...
• 11/28 Baseball News Source: 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot – Features Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, and Debate: Baseball writers will decide the HOF fate of steroid era greats The 2013 Hall of Fame Ballot includes first-timers Barry Bonds,...
• 11/28 Bronx Baseball Daily: Roger Clemens makes debut on Hall of Fame ballot: In what surely will be a highly debated topic, former Yankee Roger Clemens will be on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first...
• 11/28 Crashburn Alley: Carlos Ruiz Suspended 25 Games for Using Banned Substance: Via Todd Zolecki on Phillies.com: Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz has been suspended...
• 11/27 Full Spectrum Baseball: With January’s Hall of Fame Inductions will come the rewriting of History.: This January, as it does every year, the Baseball Writer’s Association of America (BWAA) will be voting on the National Baseball...
• 11/27 Baseball Musings: Hall of Fame Talk: Bill Shaikin talks to Hall of Fame voters about the first ballot for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens: In a Los Angeles Times survey...
• 11/26 WasWatching: The 130+ Walk Clubs: Batters with seasons where they had at least 130 walks: Rk Yrs From To Age 1 Babe Ruth 9 1920 1932 25-37 Ind. Seasons 2 Barry...
• 11/22 Foul Ground: A Moment With Tribe was a Prelude to a Moment in Time:   By Christian Petrila Is it coincidence that this week’s obscure Indian pitched exactly 216 career innings to match the...
• 11/21 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: A Moment With Tribe was a Prelude to a Moment in Time: By Christian Petrila Is it coincidence that this week’s obscure Indian pitched exactly 216 career innings to match the area...
• 11/15 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Ryu, Affeldt, Giambi, Rockies: Buster Posey was named the NL MVP today, becoming the first Giant since Barry Bonds in 2004 to capture the leagues highest...
• 11/15 Baseball Jerks: Cabrera, Posey Claim MVPs; We Debate “Value”: American League Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera and San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey claimed their leagues’ Most...
• 11/15 Blog Red Machine: Jay Bruce Wants to be a Red Forever: Coming from the desk of Mark Sheldon… In a couple of weeks, (Jay) Bruce will make a lifetime commitment to his fiancee when...
• 11/14 It's About the Money (Stupid): The union is making noise about collusion again: Well here's a story I didn't expect to read this morning: according to Ken Rosenthal the MLBPA is letting it be known that they're...
• 11/14 WahoosOnFirst: What the Indians Can Learn from the World Champion Giants: Two weeks ago, after staving off elimination multiple times and then sweeping the Detroit Tigers, the San Francisco Giants raised...
• 11/13 Halo Hangout: Mike Trout Is Rookie of the Year/All-Time: The BBWAA made it official on Monday evening when it announced Mike Trout was the unanimous selection for American League Rookie...
• 11/13 Baseball Musings: Hunting the Tigers?: Torii Hunter is in Detroit talking to the Tigers about a free agent deal: With the Yankees and Dodgers dropping out of the Hunter...
• 11/13 Kings of Kauffman: Rookie of the Year Winners Announced and Past Royals Winners: The rookie of the year winners were announced today.  It’s a no brainer in the American League as Mike Trout took home...
• 11/12 MLBRandomFandom: CONTRIBUTORS WANTED: by Jon BeckerFirst off, I'd like to thank the readers of MLBRandomFandom for coming back time and time again and hopefully enjoying...
• 11/12 MLBRandomFandom: Why I Admire the San Francisco Giants: by Mike Kravik Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
• 11/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Melky Cabrera Fantasy: What Signing with Tigers would Do to his Value: I’ve had some time to think about how valuable Melky Cabrera really is since I detailed what you can really expect More...The...
• 11/10 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Impact of a Tim Lincecum-Jacoby Ellsbury Trade: If you love the Hot Stove season as much as I do, you should probably get used to the names More...The post Fantasy Baseball 2013:...
• 11/9 Baseball Ruminations: Why Mike Trout Is the MVP and If You Believe Otherwise You’re Probably Old: I debated between a few titles for this article. Before we really get into the guts of this debate I’d like to list a few of...
• 11/9 AroundTheFoghorn: Buster Posey Secures First Silver Slugger Award: On Thursday, MLB Network revealed its eighteen Silver Slugger Award recipients, honoring the players who made significant offensive...
• 11/7 Lasorda's Lair: Free Agent Rumors-Scott Hairston: The Dodgers are looking for outfield depth this shopping season, also known to us as the hot stove. The starting Dodger outfield...
• 11/7 The Baseball Haven: 10 Players to Watch in 2013: Whether they are rookies, players who may have had a surprising second half in 2012, or a feeling, here are players you will want...
• 11/7 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Melky Cabrera Fantasy: What Signing with Tigers would Do to his Value: I’ve had some time to think about how valuable Melky Cabrera really is since I detailed what you can really expect from...
• 11/6 MLB Injury News: Money For Nothing: Melky Cabrera Edition: For those who don't know, Money For Nothing is a wonderfully terrible John Cusak movie from the early 90's.  Look it up,...
• 11/4 Blog Red Machine: The Search for “It”, Day One // Joey Votto: The Man, the Myth, the Legend: This is part one of my attempt to find a true “It” factor on the Cincinnati Reds 40 man roster. Each article in the...
• 11/4 mlbreports.com : ATR: Ask the Reports Answers Your Baseball Questions: MLB Free Agency Season Is Upon Us!: Sunday November 4th, 2012 Posted every Weekend: Your top baseball questions from the past week are answered. E-mail all questions...
• 11/3 mlbreports.com : Looking to Break the Pete Rose Hits Record: All Eyes Are On Derek Jeter: Saturday November 3rd, 2012 Luke Whitecotton:  Pete Rose likes to talk baseball whenever he gets the chance to. When the subject...
• 11/3 Puckett's Pond: Would you Rather? Gene Larkin or Torii Hunter?: It’s an age old debate!  Would you Rather?  One of my favorite comedy podcasts, Comedy Bang Bang, often ends with a game...
• 11/2 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: Fantasy Baseball 2013: Impact of a Tim Lincecum-Jacoby Ellsbury Trade: If you love the Hot Stove season as much as I do, you should probably get used to the names of Jacoby Ellsbury and Tim Lincecum,...
• 11/2 For Baseball Junkies: BBA Announces Willie Mays Award Winners For Top Rookies: Yesterday, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) announced the recipients of the 2012 Willie Mays Award which honors the best...
• 11/2 Crashburn Alley: Crashburn Alley 2012 MLB Awards: At long last, we here at Crashburn Alley will hand out our end-of-season awards for the 2012 season. It was a surprisingly entertaining...

• 10/31 mlbreports.com : Pablo Sandoval: A Tribute to Panda’s Historic World Series Night: Wednesday October 31st, 2012 Luke Whitecotton:  When I mention Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, and Albert Pujols, what words come...
• 10/24 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1997 Bernard Gilkey: 1997 TOPPS PRO SHOOTERS MARBLES BERNARD GILKEY Back in the late ’90s when New York was still my home, I used to haunt the...
• 10/23 High Heat Stats: Eddie Yost, 1926-2012: Eddie Yost, the aptly-dubbed Walking Man who was the Senators’ regular third baseman from 1947-58, died last week, three...
• 10/23 That Ball's Outta Here: Cards On The Table: All Brothers Are Not Created Equal: If Alex Rodriguez had a brother, the Phillies would have signed him. If Barry Bonds had a brother, the Phillies would have signed...
• 10/23 Crashburn Alley: Reminder: Chase Utley Is Still Good: The Phillies have operated without superstar second baseman Chase Utley for large chunks of each of the past two seasons. In 2011,...
• 10/22 Baseball Jerks: Bring Steroids Back, Pitching is Boring.: I’m tired of watching strikeouts. Tired of double plays, tired of leaping grabs at the wall, tired of ERAs and WHIPs. I...
• 10/22 Through The Fence Baseball: Alex Rodriguez to Miami Marlins rumor made little sense: I decided to wait for the Alex Rodriguez-to-Miami fervor to wane before commenting. Partially because I was laughing too hard...
• 10/19 Tyler's Think Tank: Yankee Free Agents: There are a lot of question marks surrounding the New York Yankees these days, most of them concerning how GM Brian Cashman...
• 10/19 Southside Showdown: Addressing Alex Rodriguez to the White Sox Rumors: The marriage between Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees has gone sour. You could make the case that it’s been that way for some...
• 10/18 Radical Baseball: Alex Rodriguez: reachable milestones in 2013 worth $$$?: Alex Rodriguez can easily reach these milestones in 2013: - 2,000 RBI: needs 50 - 3,000 Hits: needs 99. More...
• 10/18 Release Points: A-Rod to Miami? Yanks Better Be Prepared to Pay Big: Not even to the World Series yet and the rumor mill is in full force, this time linking Alex Rodriguezto the Marlins in a potential...
• 10/18 mlbreports.com : Cincinnati’s Favorite Son (Pete Rose) Still Awaits Baseball Re-Instatement And A Spot In Cooperstown: Thursday, October.18/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer): I started watching baseball when I was really young.  Back in the...
• 10/18 mlbreports.com : Cincinnati’s Favorite Son (Pete Rose) Still Awaits Baseball Re-Instatement And A Spot In Cooperstown: Thursday, October.18/2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer): I started watching baseball when I was really young.  Back in the...
• 10/17 Through The Fence Baseball: What will the Yankees do with A-Rod in 2013?: I’ve been a huge hater of Alex Rodriguez for a long time now. To me, he exemplifies everything that’s wrong with baseball...
• 10/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Hot Corner: Felix Baumgartner, Derek Jeter, Lance Armstrong: Contributors: Eliza Bayne, Zach Pennington, Stephen Arenholtz, Glen Hentz, Jon Sumple, Atman Thakrar The hottest topics for the...
• 10/16 Through The Fence Baseball: It’s time for baseball’s PED witch hunt to come to an end: With all the discussion of Melky Cabrera and asterisks, I’d like to commend Melky for taking himself out of the race for...
• 10/15 Southside Showdown: Adam Dunn and the 40 Home Run Club:   Including six this season, there have been a total of 310 40+ HR seasons in baseball history, by 130 different players....
• 10/15 Call to the Pen: 2012 Season Review Series: Pittsburgh Pirates: For the second straight year, the Pittsburgh Pirates were among the top teams in the National League mid-way through the season....
• 10/13 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco Giants And St. Louis Cardinals Ready To Renew NLCS Rivalry: They say baseball can be a game of inches and boy – has that ever shown in the past 48 hours. Another six inches to the...
• 10/12 Radical Baseball: One seeds blow their advantage.: Maybe they're just trying to make me look bad but both one seeds (Washington and the Yankees) have turned themselves into wild...
• 10/11 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays 2012 Positional Review: Center Field: Aside from the beginning part of the season when he was injured, center field for the Rays was essentially the B.J. Upton Show....
• 10/8 The Flagrant Fan: It is time to embrace Dusty Baker: Dusty Baker has been a punching bag for manager-bashers for years. It started with his decade as the manager of the Giants where...
• 10/6 mlbreports.com : Where Does Miguel Cabrera’s Season Rank All-Time?: Saturday October 6th, 2012 Dedrick Hendrix:  This season, Miguel Cabrera has accomplished what few hitters have ever done, the...
• 10/5 It's About the Money (Stupid): The 2012 IIATMS MLB Awards: With the regular season in the rear view mirror and the postseason not quite upon us yet, it's time to hand out some regular...
• 10/2 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Miguel Cabrera, Ryder Cup, Justin Bieber:   Contributors: Eliza Bayne, Zach Pennington, Stephen Arenholtz, Atman Thakrar, Glen Hentz The hottest topics for the week...
• 10/2 Halo Hangout: Link Hangout – Taps edition: Mike Trout becomes youngest member of the 30-30 club, Torii Hunter is on his way to his first .300 season and, C.J. Wilson to...
• 10/2 Crashburn Alley: The League of Extraordinary Nobodies: As a fan, perhaps the biggest drawback of rooting for a team, both besieged by injuries and experiencing a talent drought at the...
• 10/1 Baseball Musings: Twenty Years of Losing: The Pirates’ loss on Sunday condemns the team to 20 consecutive losing season. Needless to say, they own the worst record...

• 9/30 MLBTradeRumors: AL Notes: Trout, Ventura, Peavy, Twins, Playoffs: Rookie outfielder Mike Trout hit his 30th home run in the opener of the Angels-Rangers doubleheader this afternoon to become...
• 9/30 Rays Colored Glasses: Fernando Rodney’s Season For The Ages: One of the great things about baseball is how the past and present can intermingle. As players climb the all time leaderboards,...
• 9/30 MLBTradeRumors: AL Notes: Trout, Ventura, Peavy, Twins: Rookie outfielder Mike Trout hit his 30th home run in the opener of the Angels-Rangers doubleheader this afternoon to become...
• 9/30 Baseball Jerks: Baseball Jerks 2012 MLB Power Rankings—Week 27: Like always, a handful of new teams on this week’s power rankings—and a few old standbys. 1. Pittsburgh Pirates (↑ 1) Pittsburgh...
• 9/29 Reviewing the Brew: 40/30 – Braun by the Numbers: Add another notch to reasons why we love Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun. Last night the All-Star slugger swiped his...
• 9/29 Halo Hangout: Mike Trout Has Come For Your Records: It’s getting hard to keep up with the assault Mike Trout has put on Major League Baseball. Despite my pleas and baskets...
• 9/27 Halo Hangout: Fun With WAR: Mike Trout vs Miguel Cabrera: I realize WAR (wins above replacement) isn’t for everybody and is widely considered a nerdy, sabermetric crutch. While most...
• 9/27 Cubs Stats: Jay Cutler Is The Problem: Here is a great piece from Grantland's Bill Barnwell concerning Jay Cutler: Compare Cutler to Brett Favre, for example,...
• 9/25 Kings of Kauffman: Fun with WAR (Wins Above Replacement): After reading Buster Olney’s latest blog post “Framing the American League MVP debate“, it had me thinking about...
• 9/25 Baseball Analytics: The 40-homer club: Minus his homers, Curtis Granderson is hitting .171 The 40-homer club is pleased to welcome it’s newest members:  Curtis...
• 9/25 Full Spectrum Baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates Working on 20th Year of Futility: The last time the Pittsburgh Pirates finished with a record above .500 Barry Bonds was skinny, George H. W. Bush was the President...
• 9/24 Halo Hangout: Mike Trout’s Pink Teddy Bear: If you see Mike Trout gallivanting around Orange County with a big, pink teddy bear, it’s not an homage to the pink bear...
• 9/23 Climbing Tal's Hill: Pirates collapse continues; Reds, Giants clinch: While the Reds and Giants clinched their respective divisions with wins on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Pirates continued their assault...
• 9/22 Tyler's Think Tank: Melky Cabrera Forfeits Batting Title: Thanks for giving up the batting title, Melky. How about that All-Star Game MVP? In an unprecedented but well-received...
• 9/21 Tyler's Think Tank: McCutchen Mashing Way to MVP: For much of the summer, Andrew McCutchen seemed to have a stranglehold on the National League MVP race.  His Pirates were...
• 9/21 Baseball Musings: Tough Training: I’ve been very busy this week with work and missed this story on training the Pirates minor leaguers: It’s not just...
• 9/20 Puckett's Pond: 35!:   They said it was impossible. Okay, maybe they didn’t say that. But it sure seemed impossible. For a while, it looked...
• 9/19 WasWatching: 2013 Potential Hall of Fame Ballot: Who would you vote for? Rk YoB %vote WAR ▾ 1 Barry Bonds 1st 158.1 2 Roger Clemens 1st 133.9 3 Jeff Bagwell 3rd 56.0% 76.7...
• 9/18 Tyler's Think Tank: Pagan, Scutaro Sparking San Francisco: Posey has overshadowed the torrid hitting of Angel Pagan (left) and Marco Scutaro  Ask the average baseball...
• 9/18 Baseball Musings: MVP Race: OBM promotes Buster Posey for MVP and notes the presses hypocrisy concerning Ryan Braun: With all due respect to Braun’s productivity,...
• 9/18 Rays Colored Glasses: Figuring Out B.J. Upton’s Future: During the Andrew Friedman era, the Tampa Bay Rays have demonstrated a willingness to lock up players they feel will be integral...
• 9/18 Call to the Pen: Ryan Braun Great Again, But No MVP: Somehow Ryan Braun became the first Major League player to wiggle out of  a drug policy violation accusation shortly after he...
• 9/17 D.C. Baseball Yesterday and Today: This Day in D.C. Baseball History – Soriano becomes the 4th player to join 40/40 Club: September 16, 2006 Alfonso Soriano becomes the fourth player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season when he steals...
• 9/15 The Baseball Page: The Ripken Brothers homer in same game; Willie Mays and Barry Bonds on TDIBB:   September 15, 1990: Despite solo homers in the 5th by brothers...
• 9/11 Baseball Musings: Racist Pirates?: Brandon Phillips was not happy with things he heard from the Pirates Monday night during a brawl: #RealTalk… Not really surprised...
• 9/10 AroundTheFoghorn: San Francisco-Era Records Being Threatened by Players of the 2012 Giants: The Giants have been in San Francisco since 1958, and that leaves 53 years for records to have been compiled, and it’s always...
• 9/10 i70baseball.com: Is .390 the greatest Royals record?: As it becomes more and more apparent that Billy Butler will not be breaking the most embarrassing record in Kansas City Royals...
• 9/10 MLB Dirt: The Return of Roger Clemens is All Show and No Substance: With two scoreless outings with the independent league Sugar Land Skeeters under his belted paunch, 50 year old Roger Clemens...
• 9/10 AroundTheFoghorn: Making A Splash: Brandon Belt In Splash Hit History: Last Tuesday, Brandon Belt launched his fifth home run of the season. Ian Kennedy‘s unfortunately-placed fastball brought...
• 9/9 Baseball Musings: Marmol Teases: Carlos Marmol came into the Cubs/Pirates game in the bottom of the ninth with the Cubs leading 4-2. In typical Marmol fashion,...
• 9/8 High Heat Stats: Who will be the next 400 HR hitter?: This season, Paul Konerko, David Ortiz and Adam Dunn have joined the 400 HR club that now boasts 50 members. But, it’s not...
• 9/8 Baseball News Source: Roger Clemens – Koby Clemens Battery Mates for Skeeters: Roger Clemens pitched 4.2 scoreless innings for  Sugar Land Skeeters A father and son played a game of catch Friday night...
• 9/8 MLBTradeRumors: Roger Clemens Hopes To Be With Astros in 2013: Fifty-year-old Roger Clemens made his second start for the independent Sugar Land Skeeters last night, throwing 4 2/3 scoreless...
• 9/6 The Baseball Page: Cal Ripken plays in 2,131st consecutive game on This Day in Baseball: September 6, 1995 - Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in...
• 9/6 Crashburn Alley: Jimmy Rollins and His Place in Baseball History: Jimmy Rollins got his 2,000th career hit on Tuesday in a 2-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. The controversial shortstop and 2007...
• 9/4 The Baseball Page: Bonds hits his 755th homer and ARod hits his 500th on This Day in Baseball: August 4, 2007 marks performance enhanced historical moments when Barry...
• 9/4 Phillies Nation: Erik Kratz: XBH Machine: Erik Kratz broke open Sunday’s game against the Braves with a three-run double in the first inning. Though the Phillies...
• 9/3 mlbreports.com : ATR: Ask the Reports Answers Your Baseball Questions: WBC, Pascucci, MLB Standings, Bonds, Clemens, Pedroia, Bautista and Wild Cards: Monday September 3rd, 2012 Posted every Weekend: Your top baseball questions from the past week are answered. E-mail all questions...
• 9/2 mlbreports.com : Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon: Will Their Absences Be Amplified Down the Stretch?: Sunday September 2nd, 2012 Jake Dal Porto: It has been a couple of weeks since Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon were suspended...

• 8/31 Call to the Pen: Ryan Braun Has A Strong Case For Another MVP Award: It’s been a strange ride for Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun of late. The star slugger had the best season of his...
• 8/30 Call to the Pen: Roger Clemens to Join Astros: I have purposely stayed away from covering the fiasco that is Roger Clemens pitching for the independent league Sugar Land Skeeters....
• 8/30 Full Spectrum Baseball: Bring on the Asterisk Era: Despite public outcry over well-established baseball "cheats", MLB blatantly refuses to mark record book items with an asterisk...
• 8/29 MLB Dirt: For Your Consideration: Adrian Beltre: Last week, Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers, was a regular fixture on ESPN SportsCenter, becoming the only major league player...
• 8/28 High Heat Stats: Adam Dunn, meet David Letterman: Adam Dunn’s most unusual season is an endless source of quirky statistical curiosities. Dunn launched two more bombs Friday...
• 8/28 The Baseball Page: Drugs In Sports: It comes as no surprise to anyone, anymore when high-profile athletes...
• 8/27 Through The Fence Baseball: Breaking Balls: What Boston-LA mega-trade means for each team:   Around this time of year, most of the sports world has its attention fixated on the upcoming college and pro football seasons....
• 8/27 Bus League Baseball: The Most Uninvited Guest in all of Baseball – Newest Skeeter, Roger Clemens: He’s back.  Like an uninvited guest at your birthday, the man who just won’t stay down and be retired is back.  Now, he’s...
• 8/26 Rising Apple: Mike Piazza and the Hall of Fame: When I got home at about 3PM on May 22nd, 1998, I flipped on WFAN (as was my usual habit) and began listening to Mike and the...
• 8/26 Climbing Tal's Hill: Roger Clemens Pitching for Astros Beneficial to Both Sides: Hey Houston, let’s take the Rocket for one last flight. Let’s clear one thing up before I get into the reasons why I would...
• 8/25 Bleeding Yankee Blue: ROGER CLEMENS HOPES YOU FORGET: Today Suzyn Waldman’s favorite person, Roger Clemens (proof HERE), will be pitching in a game for the Sugarland Skeeters of...
• 8/23 Reviewing the Brew: MLB Steroids Issue: A Need for Perspective:   I was going to try and stay away from this, I really was. The very last thing I wanted to do was wrap myself up in an issue...
• 8/22 PaulLebowitz.com: The Roger Clemens Comeback Attempt: Whatever Roger Clemens’s agenda is, he doesn’t have to explain himself to anyone as to why he wants to pitch again. It could...
• 8/21 My Pinstripes: Roger Clemens Gets Job As Exterminator: Wait, what? It's not an exterminator company? I just saw Skeeter and assumed it meant he was going to be spraying mosquito...
• 8/21 The Baseball Page: 5 Years Ago This Month…Hank Aaron and the tainted “Home Run King”: Just five years ago this month, Hank Aaron, the Milwaukee and Atlanta...
• 8/21 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Roger Clemens, Melky Cabrera, Madonna:   The hottest topics for the week of August 19, 2012 … Don’t call it a comeback: Roger Clemens is returning to baseball...
• 8/20 Lasorda's Lair: The Dodgers And The Melky-Less Giants Battle For First Place: Dodgers Lineup vs. Giants Victorino 7 M.Ellis 4 Kemp 8 Ramirez 6 Ethier 9 Rivera 3 Cruz 5 Ellis 2 Kershaw 1 Madison Bumgarner-13-7...
• 8/20 SocraticGadfly: Rioger Clemens — worse than Michael Jordan?: Can somebody please chloroform Roger Clemens, or something, rather than him pitching minor league baseball? Please, please,...
• 8/20 Bus League Baseball: Q&A: National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum President Jeff Idelson: It’s becoming a bit of a cliche at this point, but last year our hive mind of writers was emailing back and forth about...
• 8/20 The Baseball Page: Babe Ruth's bat gets banned and Gehrig hits grand slam number 23 on This Day in Baseball: August 20th, 1923 - A four-piece bat used by Babe Ruth is banned by...
• 8/19 Baseball News Source: Pedro Ciriaco’s Legend Growing in Boston: Don’t look for Pedro Ciriaco‘s name on any of the lists that rank the game’s top prospects. It is nowhere to...
• 8/19 Baseball Musings: Cabrera Tried to Cheat on Cheating: The Melky Cabrera story gets more bizarre: In a bizarre attempt to avoid a 50-game drug suspension, San Francisco Giants star...
• 8/18 PaulLebowitz.com: Bobby Valentine—Sympathetic Figure?: The Red Sox have done the impossible. They’ve made Bobby Valentine, one of the most polarizing people in baseball this side...
• 8/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Daily minor league curtain call: Shelby Miller flashing superb control: Promotions have been the biggest story of late around the minor leagues. Among the more notable ones were Rangers’ first round...
• 8/16 Call to the Pen: Pirates’ Neil Walker Avoids the DL: The Pittsburgh Pirates have been one of baseball’s feel good stories this season, just as they were last year. In 2011,...
• 8/16 Raising Matt Cain: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle!: The Melky story was too good to be true, apparently. Not that I ascribe all of his recent baseball accomplishments to chemical...
• 8/15 StanGraphs: Melky Cabrera, Consumer of Testosterone: As you’ve all no doubt already heard/read/seen, Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera has been handed a 50-game suspension after...
• 8/15 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers @ Pirates August 15, 2012: Kershaw vs Wandy: Tonight in Pittsburgh, the Dodgers and Pir– Wait, hang on a second. BahahahahahahahaMelky Cabrerabahahaha. We should try...
• 8/15 mlbreports.com : Baseball’s Greatest One Hit Wonders Part 1: The Batters: Wedesday August 15th, 2012 Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)- Music has one hit wonders, some...
• 8/15 Mets360.com: Mets Card of the Week: 1993 Eddie Murray: 1993 TOPPS FINEST EDDIE MURRAY Eddie Murray is one of four players in baseball history to have 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. Yet...
• 8/14 El Maquino: CAIN GETS MESSED UP, LOHSE’S CONTRACT LOOMS AND THE PUJOLS STIGMA: THE POSTGAME: CARDS 8, GIANTS 2 > The Cards took out the trash tonight, wrecking San Francisco’s Matt Cain (5 ER) before...
• 8/14 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Barry Bonds, Derek Lowe, Taylor Swift:   Welcome to the Anniversary Edition of the Hot Corner. We are celebrating by giving you the same gold-standard jokes and...
• 8/13 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers @ Pirates August 13, 2012: Harang vs Karstens: You can make an argument for Baltimore or Oakland or Washington, I suppose, but for my money, no team tops Pittsburgh in the “well,...
• 8/12 Baseball Musings: Don’t Panic: One observer doesn’t want fans to panic about the Pirates yet. Once upon a time, the top of this site was adorned with an...
• 8/11 SocraticGadfly: The baseball Hall of Fame and morals clause hypocrisy: I recently blogged about how I would like for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and other presumed top steroiders...
• 8/11 Bronx Baseball Daily: The Grandyman Can’t: The Yankees should let Granderson walk next year: How many times has this happened to you?  You live in Tampa.  You can’t watch the Yankees on MLB.tv because, as the log-in...
• 8/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Figures of Attendance, Part III—the Genius Can’t Conjure Fans to Come to the Park: When discussing attendance and its connectivity or lack of connectivity to publicity and results, how can we ignore the Athletics?...
• 8/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Attendance Figures, Part II—Some Teams Just Don’t Try: It’s not a remote experience for clubs to be content with losing 90 games, occasionally getting lucky and hovering around .500...
• 8/9 mlbreports.com : It Is The 5 Year Anniversary Of His Re-Debut As A Hitter: What Is Next For Rick Ankiel?: Thursday August.09, 2012 ­Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)- Playing the game of baseball is...
• 8/9 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: The Giants Are 61-50: Scouting Report Giants Prospect Kyle Crick | Bullpen Banter A comprehensive scouting report on Giants prospect and Augusta...
• 8/8 High Heat Stats: Tuesday game notes – NL: @Brewers 3, Reds 2: You’re never as good as you look when you’re winning 15 of 16, says the adage, and the Reds suddenly...
• 8/8 Raising Matt Cain: The Barry & Buster Show: Barry Zito put together another good start, this time on the road against an outstanding lineup. Think about it: Rafael Furcal...
• 8/7 SocraticGadfly: Shock me: Bonds says 'I belong in the #HOF': So Barry Bonds thinks he and his size 12 1/2 cranium (not the other head, the one whose "twin companions" and steroids, via Bonds,...
• 8/7 High Heat Stats: It’s been 5 years since Barry became king: My how time flies. It was 5 years ago today that Barry Bonds passed Hank Aaron as the all-time home run leader among MLB players....
• 8/7 The Baseball Page: Barry Bonds becomes the all-time home run king and Boggs hits 3,000th on This Day in Baseball: August 7, 2007 marks a performance enhanced historical moment when Giants...
• 8/6 mlbreports.com : Baseball in the Olympics: Born in 1904 to Elimination in 2008: Monday August 6th, 2012             Robert Whitmer:  Have you ever loved something so much that the only way to see...
• 8/5 Redbird Rants: Carlos Beltran: Breakout Season: Make no mistake about it. Carlos Beltran, playing his first season for the St. Louis Cardinals, is enjoying his best season in...
• 8/5 Giants Nirvana: Maybe Coors Field Isn’t So Bad After All: After the way that homestand went, I was kind of dreading this Rockies series. Sure, the Rockies have been battling it out with...
• 8/4 High Heat Stats: Out with a bang, out with a whimper: Out with a bang Here are retired players since 1901 with the highest OPS+ values in their final season (minimum 200 plate appearances):...
• 8/4 Rays Colored Glasses: Rays Notes: More On B.J. Upton’s 100th, Longoria Set To Return: B.J. Upton and his brother Justin Upton each hit their 100th home run last night. Justin became the 755th player in MLB history...

• 7/31 Puckett's Pond: Closing the Book on the A.J. Pierzynski Trade: The trade of Francisco Liriano to Chicago marked the end of an era. Coincidentally, it reunited him with a certain catcher whom...
• 7/27 Tyler's Think Tank: Karma's A-****: What goes around comes around.  We've all heard that one before.  It's a simple lesson that's been drilled...
• 7/27 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 12: Last Call at Red Hot Tomatoes: I have a confession to make: As I write this, I’ve been up more than 24 hours straight, so this might make even less sense...
• 7/26 High Heat Stats: Adam Dunn and triple-W games: In a recent post, John Autin identified that Jim Thome has the most career games with at least one of each of the TTO components...
• 7/26 The Baseball Page: Trout vs. Harper; Baseball's future is strong: Baseball is always looking for its next big superstar(s). My generation...
• 7/25 The Baseball Page: National League Potential Stars: National League Potential Stars NL East Giancarlo Stanton- Just ask...
• 7/24 High Heat Stats: Ichiro and 2500 Hit Teammates: With Ichiro‘s arrival in the Bronx, he joins Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriquez as Yankees with 2500 or more career hits....
• 7/24 i70baseball.com: An ode to Country Breakfast: Lost in the roasting of Kansas City over the booing of Robinson Can0 was the sentiment that fans around baseball would not want...
• 7/24 The Baseball Page: Barry Bonds Tribute (Video): On the birthday of Barry Bonds, we found a tribute to *the greatest...
• 7/23 Full Spectrum Baseball: Who’s Hot: Andrew McCutchen: Welcome to Who’s Hot, Who’s Not, my new weekly feature where I’ll shine the spotlight on a handful of players who have killed...
• 7/23 Bleeding Yankee Blue: ENOUGH'S ENOUGH. TIME FOR PETE ROSE TO GO TO COOPERSTOWN: If Barry Larkin, one of the most respected ballplayers in the game, can give huge compliments to the all-time hit king Pete...
• 7/23 mlbreports.com : A Tribute to Hall of Fame Shortstop Barry Larkin: The Measure of a Man: Monday July 23, 2012 Robert Whitmer:  If you ask any player that is in the game today, the two goals that they have is to win...
• 7/22 High Heat Stats: Saturday game notes: @Cardinals 12, Cubs 0: We’ve seen a 12-run inning before (right?) — but in the home 7th of a scoreless game? It began...
• 7/21 Blog Red Machine: Barry Larkin: Hall of Fame Player: Droves of Reds fans continue their trek to Cooperstown to see #11 be enshrined into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. If you’re...
• 7/20 Tubbs Baseball Blog: Had Fred McGriff Played In The "Second Deadball Era" Rather Than The Steroid Era He'd Already Be In The Hall of Fame: Fred McGriff 1994 Upper DeckIf any player is in danger of becoming a victim of the era he played in, it's Fred McGriff. ...
• 7/20 StanGraphs: Cardboard Chronicles: A Baseball Card Journey Begins (or Makes a Comeback): So my nephew Nathan, who is like the coolest kid of seven in history, has really started getting into baseball thanks to my brother...
• 7/19 Through The Fence Baseball: Andrew McCutchen having best season ever for a Pirates player?: Caption: McCutchen has the Pirates in first place and is a threat to win the NL Triple Crown. In case you haven’t heard,...
• 7/18 Yankees Fans Unite: Teixeira Turning It Around:   Mark Teixeira’s season so far has gone true to form. It started out with his usual slow April and he has had a very hot summer...
• 7/14 The Greatest 21 Days: Barney Nugent, Caring Guy - 251: Dwight Gooden was playing in that May 1987 game with AAA Tidewater on a rehab assignment, saw one of his fastballs hit Ken Dowell...
• 7/12 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees don’t ban Reggie Jackson over remarks: Reggie Jackson is at it again. The former Yankees star and Hall of Famer who infamously got into trouble back in the 70′s...
• 7/12 Call to the Pen: Hank Aaron Still Has A Story To Tell: KANSAS CITY– There was a hush in the big room as Hank Aaron spoke. Many of the 200 listeners knew the outlines of the story....
• 7/11 Halo Hangout: Mike Trout Is Mike Trout At The All Star Game: Playing with and against the best players in baseball, future Hall of Famers, his childhood hero Derek Jeter. The All Star Game...
• 7/11 Fantasy Baseball Crackerjacks: All Star Repost: A List of All-Time Mashers: During the Baseball All-Star break we’ll be reposting some of our “All-Star” articles. This is a repost of an...
• 7/11 Call to the Pen: Royals Would Love Do Over With Melky Cabrera Trade: I got introduced to the concept of trading at a young age. It was the summer of 1987 and a couple of friends and I had just started...
• 7/10 Bleeding Yankee Blue: REGGIE STIRRED THE WRONG DRINK: It appears the New York Yankees did what they had to do, tell the great Reggie Jackson that he needed to stay away from...
• 7/9 North Side Notch: An attempt to put Andrew McCutchen’s first half into perspective: Since the inception of a league Most Valuable Player Award, there have been seven years in which a Pittsburgh Pirate has won the...
• 7/9 High Heat Stats: Sunday leftovers: @Diamondbacks 7, Dodgers 1: Arizona snapped out of a 6-game swoon over the weekend to take the last 3 of a 4-game set and reach...
• 7/9 Through The Fence Baseball: All-Star Game more than just an exhibition to fans and players: One of the many aspects of baseball that makes it more compelling than any other sport is the annual All-Star Game. While this...
• 7/9 mlbreports.com : 2012 MLB All-Star Game Preview: Comparisons, Winners, and the “Reallys”: Monday July 9th, 2012 Robert Whitmer:  The same thing happens every year. We sit down and watch baseball for the first 2 months...
• 7/9 PaulLebowitz.com: National League—Mid-Season Award Winners: Yesterday I listed my American League mid-season award winners. Now here’s the National League along with my preseason picks...
• 7/8 High Heat Stats: Quiz – Seinfeld hitters: HHS reader with the moniker “Insert Name Here” was lamenting that a recent quiz was too easy, and was pining for something...
• 7/8 PaulLebowitz.com: American League Mid-Season Award Winners: Normally I don’t like doling out awards for half-a-season, but everyone else does it so someone has to do it right when they’re...
• 7/7 Raise the Jolly Roger: Andrew McCutchen to parti**** in Home Run Derby: If you weren’t planning on watching the Home Run Derby on Monday night, you might want to change that. Andrew McCutchen...
• 7/7 Baseball Musings: Mr. Back to Back: The Yankees defeat the Red Sox in game one of their split admission double header, 6-1. Andruw Jones took part in two back-to-back...
• 7/7 Yanks Go Yard: Reggie Jackson: Still stirring things up: Sports Illustrated, in their most recent printed copy, produced a ‘Where are they Now?’ double-issue and Reggie Jackson,...
• 7/6 Kings of Kauffman: Top Royals All-Star Game Performances: Honorable Mention: Since the Royals are hosting the 2012 MLB All-Star Game, I got nostalgic. While the current team hasn’t been good for very...
• 7/6 Bleeding Yankee Blue: BURNETT'S THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING IN PITTSBURGH: I trailed my toddler son as he barreled toward the playground in my New Jersey town. A group of elementary school kids were...
• 7/5 Lasorda's Lair: Why I Don’t Care About This Year’s All-Star Game: I’m sorry guys, but I just don’t care much about this year’s all-star game. It’s like a guilty pleasure I’m scared...
• 7/5 High Heat Stats: July 4th game notes: @White Sox 5, Rangers 4 (10): One day after swatting his first HR in his new stockings, Kevin Youkilis got his first game-winning...
• 7/5 PaulLebowitz.com: The Carlos Lee Trade—Full Analysis: Marlins acquire 1B/OF Carlos Lee from the Astros for minor league 3B Matt Dominguez and LHP Rob Rasmussen. — For Carlos...
• 7/4 Tyler's Think Tank: Halfway Point Hitting Paces: With most teams at or about to reach the season's midway point, it's time to check out some interesting on-pace numbers. ...
• 7/3 Tyler's Think Tank: Home Run Derby Teams: The two teams for the 2012 State Farm Home Run Derby were unveiled over the past two days.  The American League team is the...
• 7/3 Baseball Musings: Advice for Votto: Joey Votto took advice from two players to help improve his hitting. He learned selectivity from Barry Bonds, but Prince Fielder...
• 7/1 The Biz of Baseball: Final 2012 MLB All-Star Game Voting Numbers: The following is compiled from press releases for AL and NL voting Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, the 2012 leading...

• 6/30 AroundTheFoghorn: Programming Reminder: 2002 National League Champion San Francisco Giants Reunion: If you were one of the lucky early bird’s at today’s Reds/Giants game, chances are you scored one of the bobble-heads...
• 6/30 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Andrew McCutchen And 30/30: Last night I was watching the Cardinals and Pirates playing and in his second at bat Andrew McCutchen laced a ball into the...
• 6/30 Bleeding Yankee Blue: COULD GRANDERSON CRACK THE 40-40 CLUB?: The 40-40 Club. A group of professional baseball players that have accomplished something so difficult that only four men are...
• 6/28 Halo Hangout: The Catch Featuring Mike Trout: After flipping through a dictionary, I could not find any words to describe the catch Mike Trout made on Wednesday night. The...
• 6/27 MetsToday.com: Mets Game 76: Win Over Cubs: Mets 17 Cubs 1 In a big way, Mets unleash their frustration over losing a series to the worst team in baseball. Mets Game Notes...
• 6/26 High Heat Stats: Tuesday teasers (from Monday’s games): As if crafting the first double-complete-game in almost a calendar year wasn’t enough, Luke Hochevar and Alex Cobb enhanced...
• 6/26 Full Spectrum Baseball: Roger Clemens…Where do we go from here?: Clemens was acquitted Monday on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress in denying he used performance-enhancing drugs....
• 6/26 PaulLebowitz.com: Guilty By Association; Innocent By Facts: It’s a strange world we live in when the person who was rummaging through the garbage on his own time and by his own volition...
• 6/25 StanGraphs: The StanGraphs Home Run Derby: Since out opinion is of the utmost importance, and since they let you say pretty much whatever you want on the internet, it seems...
• 6/24 High Heat Stats: Weekend game notes: [I'll keep updating during the Dickey-Sabathia game.] Sunday Rays 7, @Phillies 3: In the nightcap, Tampa scored 3 in the 2nd off Cliff...
• 6/24 mlbreports.com : Top 10 Stat of the Week ( Career HRs With One Team ): Sunday June.24/2012 Douglas “Chuck” Booth (Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)-  Seemingly gone are the...
• 6/24 STLCardinalBaseball: Are Any Steroid-Era Players Worthy Of The Hall Of Fame?: When Roger Clemens received acquittals on all counts of perjury and obstruction of justice in his steroid trial/witch hunt last...
• 6/23 Bronx Baseball Daily: Without Roger Clemens, the Hall of Fame is a Joke: A federal jury’s acquittal of Roger Clemens earlier this week has provided the occasion for fans and pundits alike to confront...
• 6/22 Call to the Pen: Former Giants’ Second Baseman Jeff Kent Could Be On Survivor: Jeff Kent always came off as a tough guy.  He was not always personable, but he played through pain, he hustled, and he put together...
• 6/22 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 7: Baseball a la Luhrmann: The Phillies took two out of three from the Rockies this week, and could easily have swept. It’s the most fun I’ve...
• 6/21 Bleeding Yankee Blue: AROUND YANKEELAND, AROUND MLB AND KATE UPTON: There is plenty of news going on around the Yankees and Major league baseball that I had to fill you in on. Plus, you need to...
• 6/21 Seedlings to Stars: Gerrit Cole Takes Another Step Towards The Big Leagues: Pittsburgh Pirates’ fans have not had the easiest time in the past few years.  Actually, they’ve been suffering ever...
• 6/19 PaulLebowitz.com: No Connection Between Baseball and the Clemens Verdict: You can read the news details here on NYTimes.com. For our purposes, let’s look at the Roger Clemens trial and its aftermath....
• 6/16 High Heat Stats: Adam Dunn and all-or-nothing hitters: Adam Dunn is enjoying a spectacular bounce-back season from his nightmarish 2011 campaign. Presently, he is on pace for 58 HR,...
• 6/16 FanSided: Trevor Plouffe: All he does is hit home runs!: Remember Cris Carter? Before he became a superstar receiver for the Vikings, Carter was a troubled young player trying to make...
• 6/15 Tyler's Think Tank: Some Random Thoughts: Baseball -On Wednesday night's Yankees/Braves game, in the top of the eighth inning in a 3-2 game with Dewayne Wise in...
• 6/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Bombers’ Blast: Putting the “interesting” back into interleague:   As much as I’ve enjoyed watching the Yankees sweep away both the Mets and Braves this past week, I have to admit I am...
• 6/14 Call to the Pen: Alex Rodriguez Ties Another Kind of Homer Mark: It’s been a while since I heard anybody discuss the idea of Alex Rodriguez catching up to Barry Bonds and breaking the all-time...
• 6/13 Through The Fence Baseball: What will happen if or when A-Rod breaks home run record?: While listening to a broadcast of the Yankees-Braves game this week, one of the Braves announcers was talking about Alex Rodriguez...
• 6/13 The Captain's Blog: Arod Slams Record Book, Continues Assault on All-Time Leaders: Alex Rodriguez’ grand slam in the eighth inning of yesterday’s game against the Atlanta Braves did more than just tie the...
• 6/13 D.C. Baseball Yesterday and Today: This Date in Washington Senators History – Goose Goslin is traded: June 13 1905 - Chicago easily disposes of the Nats, 7-0. Sox RHP Frank Owen not only collects the win and shutout. He also steals...
• 6/12 Bleeding Yankee Blue: THE YANKEES RUMBLE IN ATLANTA: I don't like to be the "called it" guy because that's the guy whose chops I like to break because 9 times out of 10, they...
• 6/11 High Heat Stats: Nyjer Morgan and runners NOT driven in: Nyjer Morgan went 44 games to start this season, before recording his first RBI. How unusual is that? I’ll take a look after...
• 6/11 MLB Dirt: Carlos Beltran and The 300/300 Club: I have always been a fan of players who possess both the skill of speed and power. As a kid I was a big Jose Canseco fan who was...
• 6/11 mlbreports.com : Top Ten Stat of the Week: HRs per AB Career (Active): Monday June.11, 2012 Douglas “Chuck” Booth (Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)- Chicks dig the long ball...
• 6/8 mlbreports.com : He is a 30/30 Club Member: But How Good Was Eric Davis?: Friday June.8, 2012 Douglas “Chuck” Booth (Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)- Eric Davis was an amazing...
• 6/8 Crashburn Alley: Crash Bag, Vol. 5: Takk…ing About Cliff Lee: I’ve defended Chad Qualls all season. I thought he was a good pickup in the offseason, a scrap heap guy who was once dominant...
• 6/6 mlbreports.com : Passing of the Torch as The Greatest Player in The MLB: From Pujols to Hamilton: Wednesday June.6, 2012 Douglas ‘Chuck’ Booth (Baseball Writer and @chuckbooth3024)- While watching Josh Hamilton this...

• 5/31 Baseball With Matt: The Anti-Babe Ruth 4/3/12: Hey Guys!Matt N here with your next blog. Considering I started from the beginning of the baseball era, I'll stay in chronological...
• 5/31 High Heat Stats: Quiz – the Big Klu: Ted Kluszewski was among the most feared NL hitters of the early and mid 1950s. In his best 4-year run from 1953 to 1956, he compiled...
• 5/29 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Lincecum or Gone?: Giants fans biggest worry this season is not what most of them have been worrying about.  The offense has actually been pretty...
• 5/28 High Heat Stats: Quiz – Heavy Hitters: I’ve given you guys some really tough quizzes in the last while, so here’s an easier one (I think). After the jump...
• 5/28 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Abreu, Dodgers, Padres, Giants: The Dodgers are sitting atop the National League West with a 32-15 record but have reason to worry with Ted Lilly sidelined due...
• 5/28 Tyler's Think Tank: Adam Jones and the Orioles: Here we are, nearly two full months into the 2012 season and the lowly Baltimore Orioles, a once proud franchise turned...
• 5/27 High Heat Stats: Paul Konerko – one of the greatest 34-36 year old players in history: With Paul Konerko reaching 400 career White Sox homers today, it seems like a good time to repeat how amazing he’s been...
• 5/25 WSJ Daily Fix: Pujols Survives the Slump: The Count: The new Angels slugger has recovered from his long home-run drought at the start of his Anaheim career, but he's entering...
• 5/23 mlbreports.com : The Yankees and Their Milestones Tracker: Jeter, A-Rod, Teixeira and CC: Wednesday, May.23/2012 Douglas ‘Chuck’ Booth (Baseball Writer- and @chuckbooth3024 on twitter)-Heading into tonight’s...
• 5/23 Rising Apple: David Wright: MLB’s Next .400 Hitter?: OK, don’t jump all over me just yet; I know that it’s not even June yet and the Major league Baseball season is only...
• 5/22 NY Baseball Digest: Beating The Shift: About a week ago I received an interesting email from ACTA Sports, the same group that publishes the Bill James Handbook, The...
• 5/20 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY THERE'S A PLAN FOR ALEX RODRIGUEZ: In December 2007, Alex Rodriguez reworked his contract with the Yankees for 10 years and $275 million, read HERE.   ...
• 5/17 Bronx Baseball Daily: Cano picks up his 300th career double: With his 6th inning double, Robinson Cano picked up a hit in 13 of his last 14 games and has hit .382/.414/.600/1.014 over...
• 5/16 FanSided: Jeff Francoeur, the Greatest Outfield Arm of Our Generation: There are thousands of different statistics in baseball.  Some statistics get lots of press – home runs, strike outs, batting...
• 5/16 Yankees Fans Unite: Nova’s Quietly Bad Season Thus Far:  Ivan Nova has quietly been pretty awful for the Yankees this season. He has been getting a pass because of the run support the...
• 5/15 PaulLebowitz.com: Hamilton’s Poised For A Run At The Home Run Record, But Which One?: Josh Hamilton‘s home run binge is making a run at the major league record a legitimate possibility. The question is, which...
• 5/14 MetsToday.com: The Best Closers in Mets History: The Chernobyl-style pitching of Mets closer Frank Francisco over the weekend had fans clamoring for the old days, when K-Rod,...
• 5/11 High Heat Stats: Is Brett Lawrie one of the greatest fielders ever?: This post was suggested by reader Paul E who remarked on the defensive accomplishments of Brett Lawrie of the Blue Jays. Toronto...
• 5/11 STLCardinalBaseball: Looking back at the TLR era: Since tonight is a special night in St. Louis, honoring future hall of fame manager Tony La Russa by retiring his number. I think...
• 5/11 Tyler's Think Tank: Josh Hamilton's Big Night: On Tuesday night, Josh Hamilton accomplished something only 15 other major league players have ever done, a feat nobody...
• 5/10 Baseball Musings: Upside Down Lineup: Take a look at Buck Showalter‘s lineup for the soon to start game against Texas (original here): Orioles starting line 5/10/2012...
• 5/10 Fire Brand of the American League: The Art of Perception: Regardless of our levels of objectivity, we're all doomed to fall prey to misperceptions and bias from time to time. The key...
• 5/10 WSJ Daily Fix: Mixed Message of Hamilton’s Homers: The Count: Josh Hamilton joined a small group with his four home runs in one game, but his fellow members didn't always combine...
• 5/10 The Writer's Journey: Long gone: Josh Hamilton became only the sixteenth player in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game. Babe Ruth never did it; neither...
• 5/7 Full Spectrum Baseball: Allow MLB to Jump the Shark: If the commissioner wants more interesting baseball near the end of the season, then he should be just as interested in compelling...
• 5/3 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: The Class of 2001: The Bizarro Hall of Fame was a series I ran on my old blog, One More Dying Quail, in 2007. It consists of players who appeared...
• 5/1 i70baseball.com: Beltran on pace to do something no other Cardinal or Royal ever hasPower and speed. Two basic elements that the best of professional athletes posses....

• 4/30 High Heat Stats: Jose Bautista is having a really sloooow start: Through 20 games, Jose Bautista is not reminding anyone of the player who terrorized AL pitchers the past two seasons. I was wondering...
• 4/29 Full Spectrum Baseball: A Very Special Episode of Arli$$ – Testimony begins on Monday in the Roger Clemens TrialThe Roger Clemens case becomes more confusing and contradictory by the hour....
• 4/28 Bronx Baseball Daily: Contracts Can Kill: Alex Rodriguez: As a diasporic Yankee fan living in Tampa, I really like Alex Rodriguez.  Rays fans hate him. They boo him at their stadium,...
• 4/28 WasWatching: Angels Release Bobby Abreu: Via SB Nation - Well, the Los Angeles Angels are shaking up their roster. The Angels announced after Friday’s loss that...
• 4/27 NY Baseball Digest: Can Derek Jeter Hit .400?: Steroids created a lot of “video game” type of results over two decades. Two records that still were elusive to jacked...
• 4/26 Baseball Musings: Batter Rankings: Since I coded historical Bill James Pitcher Rankings, I started thinking about coding something similar for batters. I wanted...
• 4/26 Full Spectrum Baseball: No! That’s not Roger Clemens on “The Simpsons”. It’s the Opening Statements in his Perjury Trial!The first three full days of court did not disappoint in the Roger Clemens perjury trial....
• 4/24 SocraticGadfly: Clemens goes all in on perjury trial: Rusty Hardin, the flamboyant lawyer for alleged steroid user and accused perjurer Roger Clemens, started Clemens' perjury trial...
• 4/22 Full Spectrum Baseball: A very special episode of Arli$$ – Opening Arguments begin in the Roger Clemens TrialThe game plan as it stands now is to have the luckiest jury on the face of the earth sat by Monday morning....
• 4/21 22gigantes.com: Giants pay tribute to former bat girl: Eleven years ago, a fifteen year old girl stood alone at home plate to celebrate Barry Bonds’ 500th home run. That was April...
• 4/21 Bronx Baseball Daily: A-Rod passes Griffey as MLB nixes historic bonuses: Alex Rodriguez hit his second home run of the season against the Red Sox yesterday which was his 631st of his career, putting...
• 4/21 NY Baseball Digest: Baseball Sees Itself in Canseco: Great day I walked on to the field and then flexed for the crowd got a loud possitive cheer loved it — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco)...
• 4/18 Crashburn Alley: Older and Better: Earlier this evening, Bradley Ankrom and I were talking about how well Barry Bonds would hit if he came back now, at age 47. I...
• 4/16 Tyler's Think Tank: MLB All Decade Team 1990s: C Mike Piazza 1B Frank Thomas 2B Chuck Knoblauch 3B Chipper Jones SS Barry Larkin OF Ken Griffey Jr. OF Barry Bonds OF...
• 4/16 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Matt Kemp is good at baseball: I'm going to be 100 percent honest: I was slightly worried Matt Kemp wouldn't be as good this season as he was last season. I'm...
• 4/15 Tyler's Think Tank: MLB All Decade Team: 2000s: C Joe Mauer 1B Albert Pujols 2B Chase Utley 3B Alex Rodriguez SS Derek Jeter OF Barry Bonds OF Carlos Beltran OF...
• 4/15 High Heat Stats: Four-fifteen: Of all the words of baseball history I’ve come across, I think the most beautiful are these attributed to then-NL President...
• 4/13 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Some fun with Dodgers' early-season projections: We all know guys aren't going to hit 96 home runs and drive in 215 runs, but it's always a little fun to look at what guys are...
• 4/13 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Kinsler, Baker, Trout, Loney: Eight years ago today, Barry Bonds passed Willie Mays on the all-time home run list by taking Ben Ford of the Brewers deep. His...
• 4/13 The Daily Catch: Astros History: Craig Biggio And The Number Seven: This article is courtesy of our friends at Crawfish Boxes Written by: Timothy De Block For game seven on the season we’ll...
• 4/11 FanSided: Vlad Guerrero Not Charged In Disco Attack: Fight Club Discotheque is the name of my punk garage band. I play the keytar. [caption id="attachment_3448" align="aligncenter"...
• 4/11 Full Spectrum Baseball: Prediction: The Pirates will finish .500 or better in 2012In this space last week, I wrote that I wasn't buying the steadfast hype this offseason for the Washington Nationals....
• 4/10 James Smyth Broadcast: All-Time Bluefield Team - Cal Ripken Jr.: The next entry on the All-Time Bluefield to the Bigs Team features one of two Hall of Famers on the roster. The shortstop is the...
• 4/7 WasWatching: 6+ Season Opener Homeruns: It’s a small list - Rk Player #Matching   PA HR 6 1 Frank Robinson 8 Ind. Games 37 8 2 Ken Griffey 7 Ind. Games 31 8 3...
• 4/6 High Heat Stats: The four players to homer each of the last 2 opening days: Four players have homered in their team’s first game in both 2011 and 2012: Rk Player #Matching 1 Cameron Maybin 2 Ind....
• 4/5 James Smyth Broadcast: All-Time Bluefield Team - Don Baylor: For the first entry in my All-Time Bluefield to the Bigs Team, I'm writing about Don Baylor, my starting left fielder. I cheated...
• 4/4 The "Mc" Effect: Big Players, Big Contracts, and the Pittsburgh Pirates: In case you haven't heard, the Cincinnati Reds gave Joey Votto a 12-year, $251.5 million dollar contract earlier this week. That...
• 4/3 WasWatching: What If Jeff Conine & Jorge Posada Had A Race?: Maybe the winner could then race Paul Konerko? Here’s a fun list - From 1955 to 2011, players with 6+ seasons of at least...

• 3/30 The Daily Catch: The Reds are Dusty: This article is courtesy of our friends at The Flagrant Fan Written by: William Tasker You know how you avoid bending over so...
• 3/23 Baseball Musings: The Changing Face of Greatness: Rob Neyer examines the ranking of Derek Jeter among the greatest shortstops of all time. I’ll let you decide if Rob is right...
• 3/22 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 1920s: 1921 Babe Ruth (14.0 bWAR) ESPN rated this as the best offensive season of all time, and with good reason.  It's too bad...
• 3/19 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 1940s: I guess a case could be made for Stan Musial's 1948, but this one wasn't much of a contest. 1941 Ted Williams (11.3 bWAR) Teddy...
• 3/19 Ramblings of Baseball: RomoBall Fantasy Preview – Eleventh Edition (101-110): The Testing Era can only be viewed as a success. In an industry as corrupt and top heavy as any other, baseball’s belated...
• 3/18 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 1950s: Like Barry Bonds in the 2000s edition of this series, there was no debate over who the player would be.  Instead, the only...
• 3/16 The Baseball Page: Let’s Go Blue Jays: Fantasy Baseball Options North of the BorderFantasy Baseball Options North of the Border...
• 3/16 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 1970s: This was an extremely close call because of Joe Morgan's huge 1976 season.  I probably should have just flipped a coin, because...
• 3/14 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Papelbon, Canseco, Jessica Simpson:   The hottest topics for the week of March 12, 2012 … Brown noser: Jonathan Papelbon says Phillies fans are smarter...
• 3/14 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 1990s: 1998 Mark McGwire (7.2 bWAR) Big Mac had been knocking on Roger Maris's door the previous two seasons when he cranked out 52...
• 3/13 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Today in Tribe History: March 13, 2006: Compiled by Jason Kaminski Legendary Cleveland pitcher Bob  Feller, who has been in the Hall of Fame longer than any other living ...
• 3/13 Tyler's Think Tank: Best Offensive Baseball Season of the 2000s: I got the idea from ESPN's March Madness-style "Greatest Season Ever" bracket that used online voting to determine the greatest...
• 3/12 The Baseball Page: Deep Thoughts – Bob Costas Spouts OffDeep Thoughts - Bob Costas Spouts Off...
• 3/8 The Baseball Page: Is Curt Schilling Hall of Fame Material?Larry underwood chimes in on his thoughts about Curt Schilling and the Hall of Fame....
• 3/6 Tyler's Think Tank: 10 Stats You Probably Didn't Know: AL West: -Adrian Beltre missed nearly 40 games last season but still managed to blast 32 home runs and drive in 105 runners, both of which...
• 3/6 Baseball Musings: Good Day for A-Rod: Alex Rodriguez missed the cycle by a triple in his first spring training game. He wasn’t too excited by it: “I don’t...

• 2/29 Baseball Musings: Quote of the Day: Giants Win posts on a sports writer pumping up Barry Zito: He appears to be a very nice man, at least to sportswriters. Sort of...
• 2/28 Tyler's Think Tank: Why I think Ryan Braun is Innocent: We all know the grimy details of the Ryan Braun scandal by now, so I won't bother to rehash them here.  All I want to say...
• 2/28 MetsToday.com: Mets Hall of Fame: The Roberto Alomar Wing: It’s a little-known fact that the Mets have a special wing of their team hall of fame.  It’s reserved for players...
• 2/24 Obstructed View: On Ryan Braun’s overturned suspension: I’m not here to exonerate Ryan Braun or declare that he’s definitely clean. I have no idea if he used steroids or...
• 2/23 Through The Fence Baseball: “Best” is a four-letter word in baseball: I learned this morning there is a lot of deception in baseball. “How did I learn this?” you might be asking. Shouldn’t I...
• 2/23 El Maquino: > WHAT THE MEDIA FAILED TO TELL US REGARDING BRAUN: BRAUN: FREE MAN It was reported today that bitter writers who shouldn’t have elected him over Matt Kemp in the first...
• 2/21 Roto Think Tank: Seismic Shifts in Valuation: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 742 4235 Roto Think Tank 35 8 5200 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18...
• 2/19 High Heat Stats: POLL: Gary Sheffield and the Hall of Fame: Gary Sheffield is an interesting case for the Hall of Fame. As with so many guys of his era, steroids come up a a big issue. Sheffield...
• 2/19 Tyler's Think Tank: Wakefield's Teammates: When you spend 19 seasons on major league rosters, you end up playing with a lot of big names.  This list isn't complete,...
• 2/18 Tyler's Think Tank: Wakefield Retires: Tim Wakefield, the 45 year-old knuckleballer, retired yesterday after 19 seasons, all but two of which he spent as...
• 2/17 High Heat Stats: Is Hank Aaron still the home run king?: On August 8, 2007, Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run in the major leagues, passing Hank Aaron as the all-time leader. Those are...
• 2/17 High Heat Stats: Gary Carter 1954-2012: The inevitable has happened, with Gary Carter’s passing today from cancer. Carter had a very large personality and had a...
• 2/17 Baseball Reality Tour: Basic Appreciation for Edgar Martinez: As we noted in our last post, one stat never tells the whole story. Nonetheless, it is widely believed that the most important...
• 2/15 The Pesky Pole: 1942 Red Sox: A Flawed Team: This is a historical replay of the Boston Red Sox starting in 1942 using the Out of the Park Baseball text simulation program....
• 2/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Possible HoF injustice for Craig Biggio: Next year will be a watershed year for the Baseball Hall of Fame as some all-time greats join the ballot with asterisks attached,...
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Voters: Don't Overlook Fred McGriff and Tim Raines: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */...
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: The Best Players Not In the Hall of Fame By Position-Part 2: Tim Raines and Dwight Evans Highlight the Outfield: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */...
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: The Best Players Not In the Hall of Fame By Position-Part 1: Fred McGriff and Ron Santo Highlight the Infield: Over the years I have come across many articles about who is the best player at each position not in the Hall of Fame. Usually...
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: Fred McGriff, The Hall of Fame and The High Road In The Steroid Era: McGriff 1987 Topps Traded           It was a tough year for sluggers from the...
• 2/13 Tubbs Baseball Blog: Taking The High Road Hasn't Helped McGriff (So Far): Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */...
• 2/13 Ramblings of Baseball: What To Wear XXIV: Pittsburgh Pirates I’ll be **** if the team with the toughest road the last 20 years wasn’t the easiest to choose a jersey...
• 2/13 Through The Fence Baseball: “Stuff” fantasy baseball owners say: With the recent phenomena of  videos being posted on the interwebz about what certain groups of people say, such as, “Stuff...
• 2/12 Yanks Go Yard: Joltin’ Joe’s hit-streak still sport’s greatest featCal Ripken boasts MLB’s longest Iron-man streak, the controversial...
• 2/8 WasWatching: Power, Speed & Walks: The 250/750/250 Club - Rk Player WAR/pos BB HR SB From To Age G PA R RBI SO OPS 1 Barry Bonds 171.8 2558 762 514 1986 2007 21-42...
• 2/7 Tyler's Think Tank: Hitters Still Hunting For Jobs: Spring training is almost upon us, the Hot Stove has cooled, and teams are still finalizing their rosters.  Even...
• 2/6 Through The Fence Baseball: “Stuff” fantasy baseball owners say: With the recent phenomena of  videos being posted on the interwebz about what certain groups of people say, such as, “Stuff...
• 2/4 Baseball Daily Digest: Deadly Accurate: NL Central: The National League Central is in a state of flux, given the cross-league emigration of two of the game’s biggest sluggers,...
• 2/2 22gigantes.com: Should Duane Kuiper be added to the Giants’ Wall of Fame?: Kruk without Kuip is like peanut butter without jelly, Mike without Ike, Tommy Lasorda without his spaghetti… Yet, there...
• 2/1 22gigantes.com: An inside look at Pat Burrell’s love shack: Now that former San Francisco Giants outfielder Pat Burrell has formally announced his retirement, it’s time to do what...
• 2/1 Fire Brand of the American League: Wednesday Morning Links: Today’s featured article will be out later this morning at 9:30 sharp, so please stop back and check it out.  In the mean...
• 2/1 Phillies Nation: Why Have Black Fans Rallied Around the Phillies?: This is a special guest post written by a friend of Phillies Nation, Zaki Edwards, from the always-funny website, PhillyGameday.com....
• 2/1 NY Baseball Digest: Tom Brady Was Nearly a Expo, Passed on by the Yankees: Here is another cool baseball-football connection this Super Bowl week. I am sure this has been talked about before, but Jeff...
• 2/1 Baseball Musings: Trading Outs for Bunts: Mark Teixeira says he may lay down bunts against the shift this season: He believes an occasional bunt and an increased concentration...

• 1/31 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Call PG&E There’s A Power Outage in Oakland: Let me tell you something you already know the A’s haven’t hit many home runs lately. And the members of their current...
• 1/30 NY Baseball Digest: Pete Rose Received Two Write-In Votes This Past HOF Election: Update 10 AM: Repoz from Baseball Think Factory has informed me the other Rose supporting is perennial backer Jack McCaffery...
• 1/29 Justin Jabs: Reliving SI Covers: Pittsburgh Pirates: Remember, there’s only 2 days left to like Baseblog on Facebook, follow on Twitter or Tumblr and be entered to win ten...
• 1/29 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Call PG&E There’s A Power Outage in Oakland: Let me tell you something you already know the A’s haven’t hit many home runs lately. And the members of their current...
• 1/28 NY Baseball Digest: The Biggest Save of John Franco’s Career: Earlier in the week I talked about why John Franco deserves to be in the Mets Hall of Fame. It wouldn’t be complete unless...
• 1/27 WasWatching: 6+ Seasons Of 20+ HR & 80+ RBI @ Age 30 Or Older Since 1982: Here’s the list - Rk   Yrs From To Age   1 Rafael Palmeiro 10 1995 2004 30-39 Ind. Seasons 2 Barry Bonds 10 1995 2004...
• 1/26 MLBTradeRumors: Giants Agree To Sign Clay Hensley: 8:02pm: The contract is non-guaranteed, tweets Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle, meaning Hensley will have to win...
• 1/26 MetsToday.com: John Franco is a Mets Hall-of-Famer: Today, the Mets announced that John Franco will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame this season. The long-time Mets closer...
• 1/26 C70 At The Bat: UCB January Project: Top 5 Iconic Moments: Before we take on the latest of the United Cardinal Blogger projects, it seems to me that we have to define the terms...
• 1/24 High Heat Stats: The 50 most underrated batters in baseball history: Following is the list of the most underrated batters in baseball history. Just as with our list of the 50 most overrated batters,...
• 1/23 Justin Jabs: Reliving SI Covers: St. Louis Cardinals: Remember, there’s only nine days left to like Baseblog on Facebook, follow on Twitter or Tumblr and be entered to win ten...
• 1/22 Baseball Musings: Scrappy Retirement: One of my favorite players, David Eckstein, retired from baseball. I don’t really care about the scrapiness, but he and...
• 1/18 Through The Fence Baseball: Chicago Cubs prospect watch: Shawon Dunston Jr.: The name is familiar, especially if you were a Cubs fan in the mid-80s to early-90s. The game, however, is different. Sure, there...
• 1/17 Tyler's Think Tank: Questionable Baseball MVPs; 1922-1929: In 1922 the American League created a new award to honor "the baseball player who is of the greatest all-around service to his...
• 1/17 MLB Dirt: Logic: I Won’t Vote for Bonds Because You Stopped Voting For Morris: In the upper echelon of absurd there sits an article by Mr.Ca**** he explains, in an elementary school yard kind of way, why he...
• 1/16 Bus League Baseball: All-Time MLB Draft: Introduction and Round 1 (Picks 1-50): At least a year ago, maybe longer, I had an idea: wouldn’t it be cool to go through every draft pick in major league history,...
• 1/15 Tyler's Think Tank: Questionable Baseball MVPs; 1940-1949: 1947 NL Bob Elliott over everyone else Elliot (6.2 bWAR), also known as Mr. Team, had a nice season for the third place Boston...
• 1/15 High Heat Stats: The Oldest Pair of Starting ________ in a Game: Years ago when I was a child, I remember it being a  big deal that the American League featured two 42 year old catchers,...
• 1/15 Bronx Baseball Daily: Classic Yankees: Tino Martinez: It’s hard seeing legends retire. 2010 saw the last of Andy Pettitte in a Yankees uniform, and it looks as if 2011 will be...
• 1/13 Yanks Go Yard: Alex Rodriguez: Hall of Famer?: With Barry Larkin being elected earlier this week as the latest player to be enshrined in Cooperstown, and in light of the fact...
• 1/13 Through The Fence Baseball: Baseball eras (for better or worse) a big reason why some records will never be broken: Baseball and numbers go together like, well, I hate to do this, but, they go together like hand and glove. 511, 61, 755, 56, 4,256,...
• 1/13 Fire Brand of the American League: The Crowded Ballot: On Monday afternoon, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that former Cincinnati Reds shortstop, Barry Larkin, had been elected...
• 1/12 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Thursday Notes: Old Money, New Money, and the Unlikely Prince: We have another potential new name in the Dodger bidding war and an update on another, and holy good lord, could these two guys...
• 1/12 Mets360.com: Will HOF voters induct Mike Piazza on the first ballot?: This year Barry Larkin was the lone inductee to the baseball Hall of Fame receiving 86.4% of the votes, in this his third year...
• 1/12 For Baseball Junkies: All-Decade Team: 1990's NL: We're getting close to wrapping up our all-decade teams.  This decade has presented us with some challenges.  As Mc...
• 1/11 The Daily Catch: Is Mike Piazza A First-Ballot Hall of Famer?: This article is courtesy of our friends at Mets Merized Online Written by: Jim Mancari With the dust settled from this year’s...
• 1/11 WahoosOnFirst: Kenny Lofton, Hall of Famer?: Indians fans have quite a few reasons to look forward to next year’s Hall of Fame ballot. In addition to returning candidate...
• 1/11 Fire Brand of the American League: Those Whom Have Been Left Behind: Hall of Fame election time does strange things to a lot of baseball fans.  Rather than focusing on the here and now, we step...
• 1/11 Bus League Baseball: The Bizarro Hall of Fame: Introducing the Class of 2012: Every January, I like to pay homage to those players who enjoyed successful major league careers, were rewarded with a spot on...
• 1/10 Tyler's Think Tank: Barry Larkin Elected to Hall: The third time was a charm for former lifelong Cincinnati Red Barry Larkin, who skated into Cooperstown with over 86 percent...
• 1/10 Through The Fence Baseball: Larkin gets the only call to the Hall this year: The question of who deserves to get voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame has always been a very debatable topic. There are arguments...
• 1/10 Through The Fence Baseball: Chicago Cubs prospect watch: Daniel Vogelbach: Albert Pujols has it. Mark McGwire had it. Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. had it, too. Barry Bondshad it so much that ESPN would...
• 1/10 Bus League Baseball: Q&A: Sportswriter Kevin Gray: For most of the past two seasons, I’ve meant to approach Kevin Gray, sports reporter at The Union Leader and a good guy...
• 1/9 SocraticGadfly: Larkin is a HOFer: For someone like me, who's generally, on the Baseball Hall of Fame, a "small Hall" guy, but, who tries to keep an open sabermetric...
• 1/9 NY Baseball Digest: Holding Writers More Accountable for Their HOF Vote: Barry Larkin was elected to the Hall of Fame earlier today with 86% of the vote. Although he had a tremendous career, I believe...
• 1/9 For Baseball Junkies: Barry Larkin Elected Into Baseball Hall of Fame: Barry Larkin will join Ron Santo as the only two members of the Hall of Fame class of 2012.  Santo was elected by the Veteran's...
• 1/9 Call to the Pen: Picks of the Pen: The Hall of Fame tallies came in, and now all we have to look forward to is 2013, when Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will be on...
• 1/9 It's About the Money (Stupid): Barry Larkin elected to Hall of Fame: IIATMS extends its congratulations to longtime Reds' shortstop Barry Larkin on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame today....
• 1/6 For Baseball Junkies: All Decade Team: 1990's AL: In retrospect, the advent of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) during the 1990s has muddied up how we view the top level players...
• 1/6 High Heat Stats: More intentional walks than unintentional walks: Tony Pena & Joe Girardi: two guys who had seasons with more IBB than non-IBBIcon SMIIt's not uncommon for the 8th-place...
• 1/5 SocraticGadfly: Angels pay Pujols all that #stlcards should have: I blogged more than once, before Albert Pujols left the St. Louis Cardinals, that Cards management should have given him a contract...
• 1/4 SocraticGadfly: #ESPN fluffs #MLB non-#HOF players again: The baseball writers at ESPN have a VERY "wide" view of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and this new year is no exception. Jim Caple...
• 1/3 Redbird Dugout: Why the MLB still has a steroid problem: Mark McGwire has been passed over for the Hall of Fame for likely the sixth time. Rafael Palmeiro the second. It seems that the...
• 1/3 PaulLebowitz.com: Tim Lincecum Trade Pa-Troll: Reading the teaser headline and you’d automatically take the “news” on a slow day as an inviting and irresistible lure to...
• 1/3 The Daily Catch: Harper on A-Rod’s Terrible Terrible Contract: This article is courtesy of our friends at Sliding Into Home Written by: Greg Cohen, quote from John Harper Harper: In case you’d...
• 1/2 Tyler's Think Tank: Willie, Mickey, or the Duke?: During baseball’s golden age of the 1950s, New York City was the sport’s capital.  Three big league teams called “the...
• 1/2 El Maquino: THE JEFF BAGWELL PARADOX: “McCarthyism was the practice of making accusations of pro-Communist, anti-American disloyalty, subversion, or treason,...
• 1/2 Giants Nirvana: Reopening Will Clark’s Hall of Fame Case: It’s Hall of Fame debate season, so now seems like as good a time as any to reopen Will Clark’s Hall of Fame case...
• 1/2 RoxPile: Rockies Retread – May 10, 1993: The Rockies Retread series recaps significant games from the Rockies’ past. You can find previous installments in this series...
• 1/2 Fragile Freddy's: 2012 Storylines: With 2012 now in full swing and most of us back to work and school I thought I would take an early look at some big storylines...

• 12/31 Did The Tribe Win Last Night?: Countdown To Pitchers And Catchers: #51 Mike Bacsik: Today continues our countdown to the start of Indians pitchers and catchers reporting to Goodyear, Arizona on February 20. We’ll...
• 12/31 PaulLebowitz.com: Hall of Fame 2012—Larkin and Raines and Pray for the Sane?: Let’s talk about the Hall of Fame candidates for 2012. I use every aspect of a player to assess his candidacy from stats; to...
• 12/30 Through The Fence Baseball: New Year’s resolutions for the Pirates in 2012: Another year is down, and though I’m only 24, I feel like time is moving entirely too fast for comfort. Now, 2012 is upon...
• 12/29 MLB Dirt: Historically Underrated: John Olerud: When the Hall of Fame ballots come out I love to look at the names that are included for the first time. To simply be named on...
• 12/28 MLBTradeRumors: Scott Boras Talks Prince Fielder: Agent Scott Boras told Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports that Prince Fielder hasn’t signed because the process of acquainting MLB...
• 12/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Scott Boras, You Just Keep Being You: The problems that Prince Fielder is going to have in securing the contract he wants are many. Without the Yankees, Red Sox and...
• 12/27 NY Baseball Digest: Pete Abe Speaks Out Against Baseball “McCarthyism”: Back in the 40s and 50s the United States was facing a huge threat – communism. During this era, thousands of Americans...
• 12/25 High Heat Stats: Most career WAR by number of franchises played for: All totals are 1901-present and for batters onlyHere is the most career WAR for players who played for the given number of franchises:1...
• 12/24 High Heat Stats: The best and worst value among batters in 1998 using $WAR: Matt Stairs, one of the most productivebatters of 1998 / Icon SMIHere are the players who produced the most and least value...
• 12/24 22gigantes.com: Barry Bonds appeals conviction…just in time for Hall of Fame consideration: by Troy Nelson, 22gigantes.com Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds finished his scandal-shortened career with...
• 12/21 NY Baseball Digest: No Justification for Keeping Bonds Out of Hall of Fame: We could all rest easy now knowing the Federal Government achieved a sentence of two years’ probation, 30-day home confinement,...
• 12/20 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Yu Darvish, Ryan Braun, Kim Jong-Il:   The hottest topics for the week of December 18, 2011 … Darvish, Texas Ranger: The Texas Rangers were announced as...
• 12/20 High Heat Stats: 2012 Career milestones: Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's milestones page, we can see which players have a shot at major career milestones in 2012.Ivan...
• 12/20 NY Baseball Digest: BBWAA Will Not Induct Anyone Until 2014: It’s been nearly 15 years since the BBWAA elected to not enshrine someone in Cooperstown. During the 1996 election, Phil...
• 12/19 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: 12/19/11: A Catch With Pop « Baseball Prose “I never played catch with my father.” The Default Position of McCovey Chronicles...
• 12/19 NY Baseball Digest: BBWAA Will Not Induct Anyone Until 2014: It’s been nearly 15 years since the BBWAA elected to not enshrine someone in Cooperstown. During the 1996 election, Phil...
• 12/19 WasWatching: Best Defensive Seasons By A Modern Outfielder: Here’s one way to look at it - Rk Player Rfield G Year Age Tm Pos 1 Darin Erstad 39 150 2002 28 ANA *8/3D 2 Jose Cruz 38...
• 12/18 The Writer's Journey: Retired Numbers: #29 & #30: Three Hall of Famers, and one guy who might be the best non-steroid player outside the Hall (that won’t get voted in this...
• 12/17 Call to the Pen: Barry Bonds Sentenced to Probation, House Arrest; No Jail Time: Sentencing was handed down in the Barry Bonds obstruction of justice case yesterday.  Bonds, Major League Baseball’s all-time...
• 12/16 Call to the Pen: Ryan Braun, Banned Substances, and MLB’s Drug Testing: As you can see from the title, I refuse to say Ryan Braun tested positive for a Performance Enhancing Drug.  He tested positive...
• 12/16 WasWatching: 10+ Seasons Of 250+ TOB w/o ROE: Here’s the list of those batters to reach base 250+ times in a season, excluding reaching on an error, ten or more times...
• 12/15 High Heat Stats: Brian Jordan: The Gold Gloves' biggest snub?: Since 1961, here are the outfield leaders in WAR Runs-Fielding:RkPlayerRfieldFromToAgeGPosTm1Andruw Jones2431996201119-342102*89/D73ATL-LAD-TEX-CHW-NYY2Barry...
• 12/13 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Albert Pujols, Ryan Braun, Lindsay Lohan:   The hottest topics for the week of December 11, 2011 … Angels and diamonds: Albert Pujols signed a $250 million 10-year...
• 12/13 B-R Blog: B-R: HoF Candidate – Juan Gonzalez: Juan González Juan Alberto (Vazquez) Gonzalez (Juan Gone or Igor) Position: Outfielder Bats: Right, Throws: Right Height: 6'...
• 12/13 i70baseball.com: What Hurts The Most: History Will Remember Pujols As An Angel10-Year Deal With Angels Wasn’t a Break-up, It was a Divorce From Cardinal Nation...
• 12/12 House of the Bluebird: Blue Jays Mid-Season Milestones: Photo by Keith Allison licensed under Creative CommonsAs we reach the mid point in the season and we approach the...
• 12/12 High Heat Stats: Win Probability Added (Jose Bautista posts an all-time great season): Here's a look at Win Probability Added (WPA) leaders in 2011. Turns out we saw a little bit of history. Rk Player WPA ...
• 12/12 22gigantes.com: On this date in Giants history — Dec. 12: 2007: Free agent Aaron Rowand (.309, 27 HR, 89 RBI) and the Giants agree to a five year, $60 million deal. The 30-year old Gold...
• 12/11 The "Mc" Effect: Cryin' Lyin' Ryan: As if this offseason wasn't going well enough for the Pirates with the departure of Albert Pujols and eventual departure of...
• 12/11 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: On Ryan Braun and Public Opinion: I didn’t really want to write about this, but the Ryan Braun situation has inflamed enough Dodger fans to demand that Matt...
• 12/11 Mets360.com: Daniel Murphy, the Dodgers and family ties: Yesterday we learned that the Dodgers wanted to acquire Daniel Murphy from the Mets during the Winter Meetings but the trade never...
• 12/11 PaulLebowitz.com: Ryan Braun’s MVP is Suddenly Not Kosher: Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun, AKA the Hebrew Hammer, saw the Kosher status of his Most Valuable Player award called...
• 12/10 High Heat Stats: Ryan Braun: MLB's greatest fallen hero: Ryan Braun has allegedly tested positive for a banned substance and faces a 50-game suspension, pending the result of a dispute...
• 12/9 SocraticGadfly: #Pujols, Bonds and the record books: Now that Albert Pujols has agreed to sign with the California Angels, what does this mean for the possibility of him chasing...
• 12/9 WasWatching: Baseball’s All-Time Best All-Around Players?: These are the only players in baseball history to have both 120+ WAR Fielding Runs and 120+ WAR Batting runs in their career:...
• 12/9 MLBTradeRumors: Interpreting Scott Boras' Comments On Prince Fielder: There’s more finesse to Scott Boras’ sales pitch than there is to Prince Fielder’s swing, but neither man holds back. In...
• 12/9 Call to the Pen: Barry Bonds Jailbird?: The federal government has been on Barry Bonds‘ tail for severalyears now, dogging him on allegations revolving around steroid...
• 12/8 High Heat Stats: Baseball behemoths: rolling three-year WAR leaders (batters edition): Here are the leaders among batters in total Wins Above Replacement (WAR, from Baseball-reference.com) over each 3-year period...
• 12/8 MLB Dirt: Pujols Signs 10-year $250M deal with Angels: The Los Angeles Angels, who were a mystery team just two days ago, signed the best hitter on the planet in Albert Pujols to a...
• 12/8 22gigantes.com: Winter Meetings update — Day 4: It’s Day 4 of baseball’s annual Winter Meetings in Dallas and the Rule 5 Draft will take place today. Some of the...
• 12/7 PaulLebowitz.com: Santo vs Rice and the Hall of Fame in Full Context: This is a reply to the numerous comments on my prior posting about Jim Rice and Ron Santo. Brooks Robinson, if he had the same...
• 12/6 High Heat Stats: The 3 players with at least 8 superior offensive and defensive seasons: Since 1901, there are 25 players who have at least 8 seasons with 40+ Rbat, or Batting Runs. These are the cream of the crop offensive...
• 12/6 Tyler's Think Tank: Santo's Spot Safe in Cooperstown: Yesterday, longtime borderline Cooperstown candidate Ron Santo was elected to baseball's hall of fame by the Veteran's Committee...
• 12/3 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: 12/3/11: 2012 Roster Projection: San Francisco Giants – MLB Daily Dish The San Francisco Giants are looking to bounce back in 2012,...
• 12/2 Mets360.com: 2012 Mets ZiPS chat with Dan Szymborski: Fans tend to be either overly optimistic or pessimistic. That is why it is important to look at unbiased, systematic approaches...
• 12/2 NY Baseball Digest: My 2012 Hall of Fame Ballot:  VOTE IN THE 2012 NYBD HALL OF FAME BALLOT It’s that time of the year again when we debate the Hall of Fame. Although...
• 12/1 Release Points: Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Second Act:   Paul Konerko, admittedly, is rather easy to overlook.  Never once has he led the league in homeruns, RBIs, or, well, anything...
• 12/1 High Heat Stats: POLL: Barry Larkin and the Hall of Fame: Barry Larkin will be on the Hall of Fame ballot for the third time in January 2012 and is a good bet to make it in. This past...
• 12/1 BoSox Injection: 2012 HOF Ballot Includes Red Sox, Mueller. But 2013 List is Drawing the Attention: Many are calling this year’s list of Hall of Fame hopefuls a ‘B’ type list that is rather weak when it comes...

• 11/30 Tyler's Think Tank: Miguel Cabrera: AL's Answer to Albert Pujols: Albert Pujols is an elite offensive performer, a hitting robot who's track record of consistent excellence  has earned...
• 11/29 High Heat Stats: Highest Ratio of On-Base to Batting Average: In a recent thread, reader mcearlgrey asked about the greatest discrepancies between on-base percentage and batting average. Here...
• 11/29 Crashburn Alley: Phillies Players and Po****: At FanGraphs yesterday, fellow Sweet Spotter Jack Moore demonstrated just how little the Internet baseball community cares for...
• 11/28 High Heat Stats: Carl Crawford's historic collapse (without much hope of recovery): Since 1901, there have been 145 hitters to amass at least 10 Wins Above Replacement in their Age 27 and 28 seasons. Few, though,...
• 11/27 Baseball Musings: Your Two Minute Hate: Murray Chass explains why he doesn’t like Bobby Valentine. Among Valentine’s peers, it would be difficult to find one...
• 11/22 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Matt Kemp finishes second behind Ryan Braun in NL MVP voting: Ryan Braun doubled up Matt Kemp in today's National League MVP voting. The Brewers' outfielder snagged 20 of 32 first-place...
• 11/21 YankeeAnalysts.com: Blood tests for HGH? Baseball has come a long way: Baseball deserves praise on a number of levels right now. In a year that has seen the NFL threaten to cancel games over labor...
• 11/20 PaulLebowitz.com: Giants/A’s—Same Area, Different Universe: The Athletics problems are not going to be solved by the planned new ballpark in San Jose because the supposed “last hurdle”...
• 11/19 WasWatching: Age 36 Seasons For Members Of 500 HR Club: Here they are, ranked by homerun totals - Rk Player HR Year Age Tm G PA RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG 1 Barry Bonds 73 2001 36 SFG 153...
• 11/18 Tyler's Think Tank: Kemp Nets 8 Years, $160 million: 2011 just keeps on getting better for Matt Kemp. After a disappointing 2010 campaign that saw the ultra-talented centerfielder...
• 11/18 Raising Matt Cain: The price of success: Only Baseball Matters has a post that echoes what we've talked about here, namely that Clayton Kershaw ought to thank the Giants...
• 11/14 Obstructed View: Carlos Zambrano's Trade Value: I feel like the debate regarding whether or not to trade Carlos Zambrano has been ongoing for as long as his career has. In reality...
• 11/14 High Heat Stats: Projecting Albert Pujols' Career: Albert Pujols is already 31 and has completed 11 major-league seasons, and thus it's a little easier to project his career totals...
• 11/13 Bronx Baseball Daily: Yankees 2011 Season in Review: Alex Rodriguez: After eight full seasons with the Yankees it is getting to the point where Alex Rodriguez has nearly played as many games...
• 11/11 Obstructed View: Another **** Cubs season in review: Carlos Zambrano: I was planning to do a few of these a week and I know berselius is going to help, but then Theo-mania started and I got sidetracked....
• 11/10 NY Baseball Digest: Lenny Dykstra’s Odd Twitter Plea: Just when you think Lenny Dykstra‘s life has hit rock bottom there is another story that takes the cake. You know by now the...
• 11/10 High Heat Stats: Projecting Prince Fielder's career: Prince Fielder has been a beast over the last 3 years. He missed only 1 game in that time while posting a 155 OPS+.Since 1901,...
• 11/9 MLBTradeRumors: Olney On Dodgers, Beltran: The latest blog post from ESPN's Buster Olney (Insider required)... Many agents feel that most teams are working slowly...
• 11/8 PaulLebowitz.com: The Albert Pujols Free Agency Profile: Name: Albert Pujols. — Position: First baseman. — Vital Statistics: Age-31 (he’ll be 32 in January—believe...
• 11/5 El Maquino: SORRY, BIG MAC: > My revised take on Mark McGwire.  Read the whole thing at I70Baseball.com. I hated the steroid guys.  Barry Bonds, Sammy...
• 11/5 Crashburn Alley: Phillies Bring Back Jim Thome: The Phillies, as seems to be a common theme these days, shocked the baseball world yesterday when they announced the signing of...
• 11/3 Bay City Ball: Infographic: 2001 vs. 2007: Graph note: I’m scaling these a little differently than I did in the first version. Because of that, you can’t compare...
• 11/2 Obstructed View: The Keltner List and Sammy Sosa: I was reading the most recent article on Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight and he brought up the Keltner List. I had meant to do...
• 11/1 MetsToday.com: Fences Come In, Reyes Goes Out?: You may already have heard that the Citi Field fences are moving in — significantly. There are many reasons behind this...

• 10/31 SocraticGadfly: #StlCards manager TLR retires: I wondered about this a week ago, as it looked like the St. Louis Cardinals had a shot to win the World Series. I thought...
• 10/31 STLCardinalBaseball: The end of an Era: Today the Cardinals held a press conference in which they shocked not only Cardinal Nation but the world. They did this by announcing...
• 10/31 Through The Fence Baseball: Bryce Harper starting to erupt at Arizona Fall League: After Bryce Harper‘s first six games in the Arizona Fall League — 2 for 23 (.087), one RBI and no extra base hits...
• 10/28 B-R Blog: David Freese breaks the all-time single-season post-season RBI record: With his 2-run double in the 1st inning of Game 7 tonight, David Freese now has 21 RBI this post-season, an all-time record. This...
• 10/25 Baseball Musings: Fear of Hitters: Twice in this post season, Ron Washington issued intentional walks with the bases empty. This was a very rare strategy until Barry...
• 10/24 22gigantes.com: On this date in Giants history — Oct. 23: (All entries courtesy nationalpastime.com) 2002: In Game 4 of the World Series, Barry Bonds is walked intentionally three times,...
• 10/24 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: World Series Edition: Giants The Platoon Advantage: An Interview with Ralph Branca Bill over at TPA had a fantastic interview with the pitcher who served...
• 10/24 YankeeAnalysts.com: Is time running out for A-Rod to become the Home Run king?: The story has been re-told hundreds of times, but the Yankees have been in the off season for more than two weeks now. With post...
• 10/24 Baseball Musings: Tango on Intangibles: Tom Tango talks about intangibles: What I think is really being discussed though is that the player with the great intangibles...
• 10/22 Yankees Daily: Bartolo Colon and Curtis Granderson get Players Choice nods: Bartolo Colon should get a lot of votes for Comeback Player of the Year. Curtis should get a lot of votes for Outstanding Player...
• 10/18 The Captain's Blog: Don’t Let the Big Man Beat You; The Genius of Ron Washington: Ron Washington’s decision to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera with the bases empty in the bottom of the eighth was the kind...
• 10/13 B-R Blog: Homering in 4 games of one series: Nelson Cruz has homered in 4 of the 5 games of this ALCS (games 1, 2, 4 and 5), tying a MLB postseason series record shared by...
• 10/13 WSJ Daily Fix: Nelson Cruz: Extra-Inning King: The Count: In just three days, the Rangers right fielder tied the record for most postseason home runs in extra innings, with...
• 10/13 The Captain's Blog: Don’t Let the Big Man Beat You; The Genius of Ron Washington: Ron Washington’s decision to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera with the bases empty in the bottom of the eighth was the kind...
• 10/13 WSJ Daily Fix: Pujols Raises October’s Q Rating: The Count: The St. Louis slugger is worth watching this fall, as he has already established himself, by age 31, as among the all-time...
• 10/12 B-R Blog: Matt Kemp’s huge team margin in WAR: Matt Kemp registered a WAR of 10.0 this season. Among his teammates, the next highest WAR for non-pitchers was 1.8 from Jamey...
• 10/10 All of Baseball: Invesment in Bonds paid off, but few megadeals work out for clubs: The amounts seem downright puny by today’s standards. When the San Francisco Giants and Barry Bonds agreed on a six-year, …Continue...
• 10/9 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: NLCS Edition: I’ve got nothing for you this morning but links… An argument for Andres Torres – McCovey Chronicles An argument...
• 10/7 AndyPatton.net: Dale Murphy and the Hall of Fame: I am doing a series on different major league baseball players and their case for induction into the Major League baseball hall...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Right on Cue: Time to trash the Yankee’s deal for Alex Rodgriguez: Overmatched or inside his own head the way he used to be every October....
• 10/5 Fire Brand of the American League: Pedro Gomez and Steroids: In case you were wondering, the debate over performance enhancing drugs, the Hall of Fame, and the steroid era’s place...
• 10/3 Bleeding Yankee Blue: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DANTE BICHETTE JR.: We here at Bleeding Yankee Blue have tried to give you things that the other blogs don't. One of the big things that make...
• 10/1 B-R Blog: Berkman’s bomb a reminder that the playoffs are a whole new season: -- Lance Berkman crushed the first pitch he saw from Roy Halladay for a 3-run HR in the top of the 1st. The Cards lead 3-1 in...
• 10/1 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Francona, Smith, Aceves: Fifty years ago today, Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record by hitting his 61st of the season. Tracy Stallard...

• 9/29 The Writer's Journey: 2011 Reds (’92 Style): Will Dorton (draft pick) CORRECTED: In 1969, Topps produced a card for Aurelio Rodriguez, but batboy Leonard Garcia was pictured on the card. In 1985, Gary Pettis‘...
• 9/28 Baseball Musings: Goodbye to Florida: Craig says goodbye to the Florida Marlins: Being a Florida Marlins fan has always been pretty weird. While others were cheering...
• 9/27 MLBTradeRumors: NL West Notes: Padres, Kershaw, Iannetta: On this date 15 years ago, Barry Bonds stole his 40th base of the season to become the second member of the 40-40 club. Matt...
• 9/26 B-R Blog: Most homers in final season: Loyal reader Andy P. writes in to ask which players hit the most homers in their final season in the majors. He noticed that Jermaine...
• 9/23 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: It’d Do Matt Kemp Well to Win the Triple Crown: If Matt Kemp‘s going to win the NL MVP this year, he’s going to have to win the Triple Crown. It’s as simple...
• 9/23 B-R Blog: Finally 40 homers means something again: It appears than only two players--Jose Bautista and Curtis Granderson--will hit 40 home runs this season. Two other players--Albert...
• 9/21 B-R Blog: More walks than hits (yes, another list appearance by Adam Dunn): Here are players in 2011 with at least as many walks as hits (minimum 50 plate appearances): Rk Player PA BB H Age Tm G AB R 2B...
• 9/20 B-R Blog: Recapping relevant games of Monday, 9/19/2011: -- Marlins 6, Braves 5: With 2 out in the last of the 9th, Omar Infante drilled a tailing-in fastball from Craig Kimbrel for...
• 9/19 Fragile Freddy's: Around the League: With the various rantings and ravings I have done recently about the sinking Sox I have not really looked at the rest of MLB. ...
• 9/18 El Maquino: 401: > Friday, August 7, 2010, about ten and a half years after his first career homerun off Armando Reynoso, Albert Pujols watched...
• 9/16 PaulLebowitz.com: There’s Logic And Then There’s ESPN Logic: Here’s one from the Bizarro world known as ESPN, where expertise is discouraged in favor of providing…um…words;...
• 9/16 The Beanball: This Brett Lawrie Guy is Pretty Darn Good: When the Toronto Blue Jays acquired Brett Lawrie from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Shaun Marcum, most people were aware...
• 9/16 22gigantes.com: Baer says he’s open to signing Fielder or Pujols: Take this for what it’s worth, but according to an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times late Thursday night, San...
• 9/16 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Italy, Wilson, Howard: Five years ago today, Alfonso Soriano stole second base in the first inning against the Brewers, becoming the fourth member of...
• 9/15 Bleeding Yankee Blue: WHY HE'S STILL JOHNNY BRAVO: Being a Yankee fan, I was always envious of any team that had Johnny Damon. Before the Red Sox had him, I thought for sure the...
• 9/15 NY Baseball Digest: What Is Your Favorite Old Ballpark? Honoring Torre, Wright’s Crossroad and Friendly Neighborhood: Last night the SNY booth was discussing old ballparks and it gave me the idea to reach out to my Twitter and Facebook followers...
• 9/14 Giants Nirvana: Game Recap: Carlos Beltran hits home run #300: Giants 3, Padres 1.  Things didn’t get off to the smoothest of starts — as the Padres scored in the first on the...
• 9/14 Boys of Summer: Wakefield, Rivera Milestones Very Different; Notes on AJ Burnett's "Improvement": Some interesting milestones were reached last night in games across the AL East, at least. Though it came in a crushing loss...
• 9/13 Tyler's Think Tank: Wake Wins 200th: It's been a big summer for baseball milestones, and tonight Tim Wakefield joined Derek Jeter, Jim Thome and Michael Young,...
• 9/13 B-R Blog: Damon Joins the 200-400 Club: Mlb.com is  reporting that tonight Johnny Damon has become the ninth member of the 200 HR 400 SB club. Here is the club with...
• 9/13 i70baseball.com: Still El HombreIf this is the last month Albert Pujols wears the Birds on Bat, he’s going out with a bang...
• 9/13 PaulLebowitz.com: The Unstoppable B.J. Upton: B.J. Upton is one of the few players in baseball who can simultaneously leave observers awestruck and aggravated. Awestruck because...
• 9/12 B-R Blog: The Oldest Member of the 40-10 (HR-3B) Club: Heading into tonight's action Curtis Granderson is on the precipice of becoming the first 30 year old member of the 40-10 club....
• 9/12 Bay City Ball: Splash Hits: Ever since the Giants opened their gorgeous home in 2000, they’ve been counting balls that reach McCovey Cove on the fly...
• 9/10 Bay City Ball: Cy Youngs, MVPs and moving on: I think  we’ve been trying to prepare you for the inevitable for a while now here at Bay City Ball: The Giants are not...
• 9/6 Through The Fence Baseball: The Hot Corner: Frank McCourt, Hanley Ramirez and Barry Bonds:   The hottest topics for the week of September 4, 2011 … Dodger blues: MLB is skeptical of the offer owner Frank McCourt...
• 9/6 Bay City Ball: Can Brian Sabean build an offense?: Grey bars = league worst, orange bars = league best Does Brian Sabean know what makes an offense tick? I think this is one of...
• 9/4 Crashburn Alley: Searching for True Power: In the ceaseless quest to identify players with the most raw pop, isolated power, or ISO, is a frequently cited metric, as you’ve...
• 9/4 B-R Blog: WPA>= .260 In 1st Major League Game: Since 1919, which batter had the highest WPA in his first big league game? Here is the list - Rk Gcar Player Date Tm Opp Rslt...

• 8/30 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Game 135 Recap - Astros 8, Pirates 2: Another night, another really frustrating game for the Pirates. Not getting beat by a better team frustrated but getting beat...
• 8/29 SoDo Mojo: Building A Ballclub With Bill Bavasi: Part III: Bill Bavasi is sitting on the edge of a linen-lined bed.  The dark room is illuminated by his cigarette.  He sits in the darkness,...
• 8/29 Neurotic Sports Fan: Debate: AL MVP?: Mitc**** Let’s face the facts: the AL MVP race is simply much more intriguing than that of the NL. There are several players...
• 8/29 Neurotic Sports Fan: Hasta la Vista Baby: The Legacy of the Thominator:   I respect you Skip Bayless. But you are an idiot when it comes to your ideas of Jim Thome’s legacy. Also, it ****...
• 8/29 B-R Blog: 500 Career Games With AB < 5 Times RBI: How many batters have at least 500 career games and, during their career, have their AB totals be less than 5 times their career...
• 8/29 B-R Blog: Selective summary for Sunday 8/28/2011: -- David Price went 7 innings and set a Tampa Bay record with 14 strikeouts, breaking the mark shared by James Shields and Scott...
• 8/27 NY Baseball Digest: Listen: Weekly Digest, Special Hurricane Time and Edition: I move the show to Saturday morning due to Hurricane Irene. Hear me talk to Mike Bacsik, former big league pitcher who gave up...
• 8/26 mlbreports.com : Edgar Martinez Should Be Inducted Into Cooperstown: Future Mariners Hall of Famer: Friday August 26, 2011     Sam Evants (Intern Candidate- MLB reports):  When you think of the most consistent hitters during...
• 8/26 Baseball Musings: Return to Cleveland: The Twins dealt Jim Thome to the Indians Thursday night, as the slugger returns to his first team. This has actually been a pattern...
• 8/25 22gigantes.com: Game recap: SF 2, SD 1: Carlos Beltran blasted his first home run as a Giant and Tim Lincecum helped his own cause with an RBI single as the San Francisco...
• 8/23 22gigantes.com: Marvin Bernard gets his plaque — finally: Home sweet home. The Giants are back in town after a grueling 10-game roadtrip that saw the team lose six games and their hold...
• 8/22 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Brian Wilson, Matt Cain, Jerome Williams: Lots of links… Giants 8th INNING WEIRDNESS: Who Has the Better September Offense: Giants or Diamondbacks? The Giants team...
• 8/22 Through The Fence Baseball: What’s the true meaning behind the Pirates’ contract extensions?: It’s been an exciting week in Pittsburgh. When was the last time you could say that the Pirates were the biggest spenders...
• 8/22 B-R Blog: Multiple Multiple Home Run Games by Quadragenarians: When Jim Thome hit his 599th and 600th home runs in the same game, it was the second time this season in which the 40 year old...
• 8/20 Tyler's Think Tank: An Ode to Nomar: My earliest baseball recollection dates back to 1998, when I was six years old.  I wish I could say I remember Mark McGwire...
• 8/20 Brotherly Glove: Evaluating Relievers: Relievers are a fickle bunch. One might dominate the opposition in a given year, only to perform poorly the next season. Then...
• 8/19 mlbreports.com : Mike Jacobs: Rockies Slugger Receives 50 Game HGH Suspension: Friday August 19, 2011     MLB reports:  Major League Baseball commenced human growth hormone (“HGH”) testing...
• 8/19 Through The Fence Baseball: The race for the AL Cy Young runner-up: To say that every Detroit Tiger’s game is must-see TV would be an exaggeration to anyone, including Tiger fans. I’m...
• 8/19 Subjective Baseball: Top 10 Last Seasons: For this one, the premise is simple: which players had the best last seasons of their careers?  There are, however, a few...
• 8/19 NY Baseball Digest: The Softer Side of Kevin Mitc****: Last Saturday, Darryl Strawberry’s Sports Grill parti**** in Douglaston Community Day and celebrated their one year anniversary....
• 8/18 NY Baseball Digest: Looking Back: What If 1994: This is a little old, but figured I would share it since we talked about the viability of baseball in Montreal earlier this week....
• 8/17 mlbreports.com : E-MAILBAG: Ask the Reports, Wednesday August 17th: Thank you for reading the E-mailbag.  Please send all your questions to mlbreports@gmail.com and please include your first name...
• 8/16 Tyler's Think Tank: Thome Thumps 600th: Of the more than 36,000 people who took their seats at Comerica Park for last night's mid-August tilt between the scuffling Twins...
• 8/16 MLB Dirt: Thome’s Career is Something to Marvel At: I want to start out by congratulating Jim Thome for hitting his 600th homerun last night. It is an accomplishment only seven other...
• 8/16 Through The Fence Baseball: A good night for Thome – and baseball: If 36,000 people give you a standing ovation at Comerica Park, you’re either a Detroit Tiger or a legend. Last night, Jim Thome...
• 8/16 El Maquino: A FREE PASS FOR THOME?: Last night, Jim Thome hit the 600th homerun of his 21-year career.  Praise from media and fans was unconditionally showered on...
• 8/11 mlbreports.com : Interview with Toronto Blue Jays Prospect and 2010 Draftee: Art Charles: Thursday August 11, 2011     MLB reports:  Today on the Reports we are proud to feature Blue Jays prospect first baseman,...
• 8/11 WasWatching: What’s Got In To Curtis Granderson This Season?: Since 1988, there have been 32 players to post an OPS+ of 145 or better (while playing in at least 100 games) in their “Age...
• 8/10 Giants Nirvana: The Giants by Power Factor: Over at Beyond the Box Score, Lewie Pollis re-introduces power factor (you can check out the original write-up here), a stat designed...
• 8/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Pirates Need To Accentuate The Positives: The same qualities that Pirates manager Clint Hurdle used to get his club to overachieve into late July and be buyers rather than...
• 8/8 The Crazy Crabbers: Wait... Barry Zito Wasn't an Ace When the Giants Signed Him?: Jonah Keri writing at Grantland has a new article up about using advanced pitching statistics could have avoided some of...
• 8/6 Stealing First Base: It’s too early to call Pedro Alvarez anything, let alone a bust.: There’s no nice way to say this: Pedro Alvarez has been terrible this year. He’s been a bad hitter, he’s been...
• 8/6 Three Rivers Burgh Blog: Pedro Alvarez's Career Going Forward: Evaluating baseball talent is some of the hardest work that a baseball scout and management team has to do. Unlike other sports...
• 8/5 Fragile Freddy's: Game 110 Recap: CLE – 021 002 101 – 7 – 14 – 1  BOS – 200 100 000 – 3 – 5 – 1 After getting strong work from the bullpen...
• 8/5 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Designated Pinch Hitter: All day I had planned on doing a write-up about the retirement of Matt Stairs. Joe Posnanski beat me to the punch and put up a...
• 8/4 BomberBanter.com: Home Run Derby, All Star GameOver the last 15 or so seasons, I've done by best to give the All Star Break festivities as much attention as I could....
• 8/4 For Baseball Junkies: Historical Player Profiles: Arky Vaughan: If you were told the Pittsburgh Pirates have had the two best shortstops in the history of baseball, would you believe it? Although...
• 8/1 This is Getting Old: Pirates vs. Cubs (Series Thirty Six): There are quite a few things that are less painful than that freaking road trip. 1.  Natural child birth. 2. Beer bonging Mad...
• 8/1 The Writer's Journey: How magical are “magic numbers”? (part 2): In June, I examinded 300 wins and 3000 strikeouts. I intended to jump right into 500 home runs and 3000 hits after that, within...

• 7/31 B-R Blog: 13 Or More 5+ RBI Games Since 1919: Since 1919, how many players have 13+ games in their career with 5+ RBI? Here's the list - Rk Player #Matching   PA AB H 2B 3B...
• 7/29 The Crazy Crabbers: Bonds' Season for the Ages: There is an excellent article on Fangraphs by Chris Cwik about Barry Bonds' 2004 season. The amazing thins is that with...
• 7/29 COSFBA: The SABR Spotlight: Andrew McCutchen: Let's quickly recap out SABR Spotlight players so far...Since Jair Jurrjens was featured in the Spotlight's debut article, he's...
• 7/29 B-R Blog: Rare power and speed combo: Jacoby Ellsbury, Jose Reyes, and Matt Kemp: As of last week, three players are poised to join the list of qualified players to post a slugging percentage of at least .500...
• 7/29 B-R Blog: 50 stolen bases and .500 slugging: Since 1901, there have been 30 seasons of at least 50 stolen bases and a .500 slugging average, by 17 different players. (That...
• 7/26 WSJ Daily Fix: The Pirates Put Up Unlikely Numbers: The Count: Pittsburgh, attempting to reverse two decades of futility, is in a tie for first place despite putting up offensive...
• 7/26 Through The Fence Baseball: Matsui’s home run not a milestone: According to some media outlets, Hideki Matsui reached a milestone last week with his 500th career home run. The outfielder for...
• 7/25 Giants Nirvana: Barry Bonds Facts (Happy Birthday, Barry!): It always saddens me when people write that the Giants are better off without Barry Bonds. Some say that they won the World Series...
• 7/22 Fire Brand of the American League: Is Adrian Gonzalez the MVP of the AL? Or Even the Team?: In case you missed it last week, Patrick Sullivan at Over the Monster wrote a fantastic piece on why Adrian Gonzalez was...
• 7/21 The Daily Catch: The Silent Milestone: Jim Thome is four home runs away from 600 for his career.  You may not know that with the amount of coverage the milestone chase...
• 7/21 B-R Blog: Most Career Post-Season Triples: How many players have 2 or more triples in the post-season? Here is the list - Rk Player #Matching   PA AB H 2B 3B 6 HR RBI...
• 7/20 Tyler's Think Tank: Beltran in Boston?: The trading deadline is less than two weeks away, and the Red Sox are looking to add more firepower to baseball's best offense?...
• 7/20 Giants Nirvana: Giants Trade Rumors Revisited, Part One: Tim Lincecum for Delmon Young: The other day, I was reminiscing about old Giants trade rumors. Remember Alex Rios for Tim Lincecum? Yep. Lots of trade rumors...
• 7/19 B-R Blog: 300/300 Club: Players with at least 300 HR and 300 SB: I have posted on this before, but let's do it again anyway. Carlos Beltran has 294 homers and 292 stolen bases and is a good bet...
• 7/19 El Maquino: PITTSBURGHTH: 12:01a When the year began, there were six different places you could finish in the National League’s central division:...
• 7/18 The Pesky Pole: My Love Letter to Derek Jeter: Derek Jeter reached the 3,000 hit plateau a little over a week ago. My blog has turned into a Jeter blog the last several...
• 7/15 WSJ Daily Fix: Bautista Chases His Own Furious Pace: The Count: Jose Bautista had a first half for the ages. Can he keep it up -- and maybe drive in more runs in the second half?...
• 7/15 Baseball Musings: Pirates in First!: Colorado defeats Milwaukee 4-0, putting the Pittsburgh Pirates in first place in the NL Central by percentage points ahead of...
• 7/14 For Baseball Junkies: Clemens Mistrial: When Will It Stop?: The Government could have said, "Here is the Mitc**** Report. Here is the Canseco book. Here are the dirty trainers. Here are...
• 7/14 SocraticGadfly: Bonds vs Clemens in court: Which case will have more govt idiocy?: I thought federal prosecutors did less than a stellar job in Barry Bonds' steroid-use related trial. But, given that, in the second...
• 7/14 The Captain's Blog: Clemens Notches Another Win; Baseball Ahead in the Count 2-0: As a pitcher, no one was more intimidating than Roger Clemens. The Rocket’s red glare and intense demeanor on the mound made...
• 7/14 NY Baseball Digest: Getting to Know Jason Isringhausen: Jason Isringhausen might be the next Mets closer now that K-Rod is in Milwaukee. Lets take a minute to get to know him. FULL NAME:...
• 7/12 MLB Dirt: Playing in Babe Ruth’s Sandbox: Baseball cards don’t have the same relevance as they did when this writer was a kid. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, kids of...
• 7/12 Jays Journal: Jose Bautista Heroic in Cleveland: Although the Jays did suffer their 15th blown save of the season after Jon Rauch allowed the Indians to tie this game in the 9th...
• 7/12 Cut Four: First Half AL MVP: Over the weekend, the question of who is the first half American League Most Valuable Player was hotly debated on Twitter. The...
• 7/12 The Biz of Baseball: CNN Graphic Erroneously Shows Jeter with 3000 Home Runs, Not Hits: You get the strange feeling that someone doing the banner graphics at CNN today isn’t exactly a baseball fan. Case in point,...
• 7/12 MLBTradeRumors: Quick Hits: Orioles, Mariners, Dodgers: Congratulations to Robinson Cano, who joins Frank Thomas, Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds and other sluggers of note on the...
• 7/12 B-R Blog: 9+ Games Of aLI>=1.3, and WPA>=.37 and RE24>=2.5: Fooling around with Play Index, I asked it show me players with the most games where: aLI>=1.3, and WPA>=.37 and RE24>=2.5...
• 7/12 B-R Blog: 31 homers in 91 games: Check out the guys with the most homers in his team's first 91 games to see where Jose Bautista ranks: Rk Player Year PA AB HR...
• 7/12 B-R Blog: 9+ TB In 9-Inning Game Age 37+ Since 1919: How many players, since 1919, had a game, where the contest was 9 innings or less, where they were at least 37-years old and had...
• 7/6 MLBTradeRumors: Looking Back At The Pirates’ Last Playoff Run: It’s been a while since the Pirates were relevant. Top Pittsburgh prospect Jameson Taillon was less than one year old when the...
• 7/5 Obstructed View: Midseason look at the Cubs top prospects, part 2: A few days ago we looked at Sickel's Cubs prospects ranked 11-20 entering the season and how they've done so far. This time we'll...
• 7/5 B-R Blog: 22+ HR In Team’s First 81 Games Since 1969: Since 1969, how many players have hit at least 22 HR in his team's first 81 games of the season? Here is the list - Rk Player...
• 7/5 It's About the Money (Stupid): The All Star Game selection process: I don’t care anymore: Friends, it's been some time since I actually wrote something on this here site. No excuses; work happens. Thankfully, the...
• 7/2 Brotherly Glove: The Bautista Decision: To Walk Or Not To Walk: The Phillies got their road trip off on the right foot, eeking out a 7-6 win in a back-and-forth affair that kept fans glued to...
• 7/2 B-R Blog: Random Recap for Friday, July 1: [A bit late, but here are notes on a few of the Friday games that closed up before my eyelids did. With a big "thanks" to Andy...

• 6/27 The Crazy Crabbers: Baseball Bloggers Alliance: All-Star Ballot: It's All-Star time again and as a proud member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance I need to submit my National League ballot for...
• 6/26 Obstructed View: Some thoughts on the so-called team meetings: On Saturday Tim explained how silly the Cubs are, but I came to a much different conclusion than he did after reading the...
• 6/26 B-R Blog: Saturday Snippets: -- After 238 career starts, Jake Peavy made his first relief appearance Saturday, and picked up a win with 4 dominant innings...
• 6/23 B-R Blog: Random Recap for Wednesday, June 22: A survey of Wednesday's MLB action that suffers severe sampling bias.... -- Cliff Lee became the first pitcher with consecutive...
• 6/22 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: NL West, Madison Bumgarner, Draft: The NL West Dream Team - Beyond the Box Score We're continuing our look at divisional dream teams today with the NL West. The...
• 6/21 NY Baseball Digest: Unlikely Yankees Starters: It’s safe to say that no one expected the Yankees to be employing the services of Brian Gordon this season, much less be calling...
• 6/20 22gigantes.com: Bonds wants conviction overturned: According to the San Francisco Examiner, former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds wants his April felony conviction for...
• 6/20 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Vogelsong, Diamondbacks, Williams: How Does Left-Handed Pitching Usage Affect OPS? - Beyond the Box Score An interesting discovery here: when calculating a player's...
• 6/19 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Vogelsong, Diamondbacks, Williams: How Does Left-Handed Pitching Usage Affect OPS? - Beyond the Box Score An interesting discovery here: when calculating a player's...
• 6/19 NY Baseball Digest: Top Five Father/Son Combos in Baseball History: To celebrate Father’s Day lets try something different: looking at the top father/son combos in the history of the game....
• 6/19 B-R Blog: Kosuke **** and why batting average is a lousy stat: There are two players so far in 2011 with a significant number of at-bats, a batting average under .300, but an on-base percentage...
• 6/17 YankeeAnalysts.com: Looking At All The Intentional Walks: After handing out two free passes to Josh Hamilton yesterday, the Yankees lead the AL in intentional walks at 24, with the closest...
• 6/17 B-R Blog: 100+ Career “Runs” From Fielding: Nothing fancy about this list - it's those with 100+ career "Fielding Runs" aka Rfield. Rk Player Rfield From To Age G PA AB R...
• 6/16 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: Vogelsong, Diamondbacks, Williams: How Does Left-Handed Pitching Usage Affect OPS? - Beyond the Box Score An interesting discovery here: when calculating a player's...
• 6/16 22gigantes.com: Bonds wants conviction overturned: According to the San Francisco Examiner, former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds wants his April felony conviction for...
• 6/15 B-R Blog: 2011 Pirates: Some Pirates notes: With their shutout win last night, the Pirates are now 33-33. Here is the last time they were at at least...
• 6/13 Baseball Musings: Paul Barer: The Mets run cupboard was bare as Paul Maholm held New York to three hits and two walks over seven innings as Pittsburgh takes...
• 6/13 B-R Blog: 265+ HR Through Age 31 Season: How many players in baseball history have hit at least 265 homeruns through the season in which they were age 31?  Here's the...
• 6/12 Motor City Bengals: The Last, Greatest Post About Austin Jackson & BABIP: Part 2 – The BABIP Hall Of Fame: There are a handful of truly distinct areas in which a batter can excel: power, speed, strike zone discipline and batting average...
• 6/10 B-R Blog: On Base 4000+ Times (Including ROE ): How many players in baseball history have reached base, including via an error, 4,000 times or more in the career? Here's the...
• 6/8 B-R Blog: 4+ BB In 9-Inning Games 5+ Times Since 1919: How many batters have at least 5 games in their career of 9 innings or less with 4+ BB in the contest since 1919? Here's the list...
• 6/7 Baseball Musings: More on Harper: In the wake of “The Kiss“, this AP story is making the rounds about how Bryce Harper still needs to develop skills...
• 6/6 B-R Blog: 30/30/100/100 Club: This is not a very fancy sort.  It's the 21 men in baseball history to have 30+ HR, 30+ SB, 100+ R and 100+ RBI in the same season....
• 6/3 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Sabean on KNBR Regarding Posey Incident: Hate Reveals Underlying Position: Wow, there is something about Sabean on KNBR that just brings out the worse in him.  From his almost opening statement of...
• 6/3 The Crazy Crabbers: Small Sample Size Fun: Aubrey Huff Edition: So how about that. Scoring runs is nice but 19 runs in two games that is crazy. I think someone needs to x-ray the Giants...
• 6/3 MLBTradeRumors: Draft Notes: Phillies, Bauer, Bradley, Hultzen: Peter Gammons of MLB Network runs through some of the most intriguing 'what-ifs' in the history of the draft at MLB.com. Here...

• 5/31 Yankees Daily: The 4000 Times on Base Club: There is a lot of attention on Derek Jeter and his quest for 3000 hits. He currently sits at 2981 and needs just nine hits to...
• 5/29 B-R Blog: Notes from Saturday Games: Hanley’s Struggle, Duke’s Triumph: A non-comprehensive look around Saturday's MLB games: Hanley Ramirez was caught stealing and grounded into a double play in Florida's...
• 5/27 The Captain's Blog: Youth Is Served: News Stars Helping to Refresh the Game: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Baseball is a young...
• 5/27 YankeeAnalysts.com: Youth Is Served: News Stars Helping to Refresh the Game: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). Baseball is a young man’s game. Nothing drives that point home...
• 5/26 Obstructed View: The All Average wOBA hitters: I was looking on Fangraphs at Starlin Castro's stats this morning and couldn't help but notice that his .357 wOBA was almost...
• 5/26 NY Baseball Digest: What Could Lenny Dykstra Have Been?: Lenny Dykstra once promised to be the best leadoff hitter in baseball. Now, 25 years since he hit two memorable postseason homeruns...
• 5/26 Bay City Ball: Tater Famine: Before Wednesday night’s game, the Giants sat atop the National League West division with a record of 27-20 despite a run...
• 5/25 SocraticGadfly: Wetzel wrong on Lance Armstrong's inspiration value: Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel is usually right on the money. But, his claim that Lance Armstrong's doping, if true, doesn't...
• 5/24 Giants Nirvana: Ultimate Base Running: Fangraphs unveiled its latest feature today, Ultimate Base Running (available on stats pages as BsR), so I thought I'd take...
• 5/24 Yankees Daily: Ultimate Base Running added to fWAR: I was so excited to see that Fangraphs has added UBR (Ultimate Base Running) to the site and more importantly to fWAR. I have...
• 5/23 YankeeAnalysts.com: Game Thread and Series Preview: Yankees vs. Blue Jays III: Don’t pitch to Jose Bautista: It’s no secret that Jose Bautista has, in seemingly record time, become the most feared hitter in baseball. What Bautista...
• 5/23 PaulLebowitz.com: Me Too: The doctor who wanted and got media exposure for his treatment of Bartolo Colon with stem cells has come out and said that “10...
• 5/20 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Live Blogging: A’s@ Giants Game 45: 7:58PM PDT: He had the green light, ground out to second base. 7:57PM PDT: Trevor Cahill due up, in spring training they wouldn’t...
• 5/19 B-R Blog: Jason Giambi is one of the oldest players to hit 3 homers in a game: **** straight, I wrote about how long it took for a 3-HR game in the majors this year, and now they are coming in rapid-fire fashion....
• 5/19 Giants Nirvana: Giants Draft Picks You Might Not Remember: In my research of past San Francisco Giants' drafts, I've come across a few interesting names. Guys I didn't know the Giants ever...
• 5/18 Yankees Daily: Brian Giles is Historically Underrated: Hi, my name is Brian Giles and I am historically underrated. You may not have realized how good I was during my playing career....
• 5/17 The Process Report: Swing Potency: Part 1: When trying to figure out a baseball player’s overall quality, one should look at one of the many, well tuned, well established...
• 5/17 B-R Blog: Last Season For 400-HR Club Members: Ever wonder what the last season looked like for each member of the 400-career HR club? Here they are: Rk Player OPS+ Year Age...
• 5/15 Through The Fence Baseball: Mind over Matter: Believe in Bautista: Doubters be **** Jose Bautista, Superstar, is here to stay. Even as I write this piece, the Blue Jays’ slugger has launched...
• 5/15 B-R Blog: Bryce Harper’s Intro To Pro Ball: I got to see Bryce Harper play last night, in person. Have you seen his minor stats, to date? Here they are: Year Age Tm Lg Lev...
• 5/14 B-R Blog: How much longer will Jorge Posada play?: I don't know the answer to the title question. I have a hard time imagining the Yankees continuing to play Posada if he continues...
• 5/6 B-R Blog: Players with at least one third of their career walks coming intentionally: (Thanks to McCombe35 for writing in with this idea.) A simple but fascinating list. Here are the guys with the most career walks...
• 5/4 NY Baseball Digest: Unimpressive Champs On Display at Citi Field: The San Francisco Giants invaded Citi Field last night and I couldn’t be more unimpressed. It made me wonder how this group...
• 5/4 PaulLebowitz.com: A Natural Progression/Regression: I’m not sure what fans were expecting from Derek Jeter. He’s not hitting for any power and his range in the field...

• 4/28 Through The Fence Baseball: Hall of Fame Standards: Chipper Jones and the RBI: This is a series to establish what the Hall of Fame standard is for each category and if it affects enshrinement into the Hall....
• 4/22 The Captain's Blog: Exaggerated Claims Distort Dodgers’ Current Plight; McCourts Have History with Distressed Franchises: Move aside Barry Bonds. Fred McCourt is one of the most vile, reprehensible men in the history of baseball. At least that seems...
• 4/22 YankeeAnalysts.com: Exaggerated Claims Distort Dodgers’ Current Plight; McCourts Have History with Distressed Franchises: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). Move aside Barry Bonds. Fred McCourt is one of the most vile, reprehensible...
• 4/22 Obstructed View: Should Brett Jackson be starting for the Cubs?: Brett Jackson was the Cubs first round pick in 2009 and the 31st pick overall. It was the first time that I could remember that...
• 4/22 Giants Nirvana: Splash Hits: 4/21/11: Links... Gwen Knapp of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about how Barry Bonds' "cynicism cost him a hero's legacy."...
• 4/21 Through The Fence Baseball: The People vs. Barry Lamar Bonds: My dad was sitting in his hospital bed as I walked in to see him for the first time after his heart “incident.” He was still...
• 4/21 B-R Blog: Lowest RBI per HR ratios in history: Reader Tony C. wrote in to ask for this old favorite. Let's ease in. First here are the lowest RBI totals for a player with 30...
• 4/20 The Process Report: Dream Processing: Desmond Jennings’ Power Stays: Although I neglected to mention it yesterday, Desmond Jennings became the first batter in the Rays system—from the majors to...
• 4/20 SocraticGadfly: Let's play Swap-A-Commissioner: Oh, what fun this could be. Here's how it could work. David Stern moves from the NBA to the NFL. There, fleeing officiating...
• 4/20 SocraticGadfly: The Bonds trial and the HOF: Do baseball players who have allegedly been roiding even care about the Hall of Fame? Do owners, commissioner Bud Selig and other...
• 4/19 My Pinstripes: Topsy Turvy Two Weeks | Baseball Digest: Topsy Turvy Two Weeks | Baseball DigestIt’s been a little over two weeks since the start of the Major League baseball season;...
• 4/18 Cut Four: There is no Barry Bonds Conundrum: On Friday, Al Yellon of Bleed Cubbie Blue posted his thoughts on Barry Bonds and the Hall of Fame. The post was titled ‘The...
• 4/16 Through The Fence Baseball: Countdown to draft day: Pirates are on the clock: This year’s MLB draft will take place on June 6, 2011, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are on the clock with the first overall...
• 4/15 Fire Brand of the American League: Is Crawford a $20M per Year Player?: Last week, Nick Underhill of masslive.com shared an article with me (via Twitter) by Michael Felger of Comcast Sports Net New...
• 4/15 Fanspeak.com: What In the World Are The Braves Doing?
• 4/15 The Biz of Baseball: 7 Observations on the Barry Bonds Verdict: A few reflections on the Barry Bonds verdict… 1. After the jury came back with a verdict of guilty on the obstruction of justice...
• 4/15 B-R Blog: Mailbag: Least plate appearances by a winning team: B-R reader James Sinclair sent this one in to us, so what follows are his words: A conversation with a friend led me to look up...
• 4/15 Obstructed View: I just checked and Barry Bonds is still the home run leader: As you all know by now, Barry Bonds was convicted two days ago for hitting too many home runs. It's a serious offense in modern...
• 4/14 Giants Nirvana: Thursday Evening Links - 4/14/11: I wasn't able to get a recap up of last night's game -- which was a good one, by the way -- but When the Giants Come to Town (as...
• 4/14 The Captain's Blog: Justice Denied: Bonds Found Guilty as Steroid Era Myth Adds Another Chapter: The U.S.government was finally able to pin a felony on Barry Bonds (assuming the verdict isn’t set aside by the judge), and...
• 4/14 PaulLebowitz.com: Will Alcatraz Reopen To House Vicious Criminal Barry Bonds? (And Other Questions): After all that money, work and media coverage, the government was able to convict Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice. That’s...
• 4/14 NY Baseball Digest: Is Steroid Use an Addiction?: The conviction of Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice could be considered the “cherry on top” of the “steroid...
• 4/14 BC Sports: Barry Bonds Guilty: The Home Run King Knocked Off Throne?: The verdict is in at Barry Bonds's perjury trial in San Francisco, California: guilty! Bonds has been found guilty of obstruction...
• 4/14 The Captain's Blog: More of the Same: Yanks Feast on Buck’s Birds in First Meeting of Season: Buck Showalter’s new and improved Orioles left Yankee Stadium with the same old result: a loss. One pattern from past seasons...
• 4/13 Giants Nirvana: Wednesday Links - 4/13/11: I can't believe anybody would actually say this about Bryan Stow. Terribly offensive and insensitive. Bruce Bochy's bullpen...
• 4/13 Feelin' Kinda Blue: After Matt Kemp, the Dodgers' lineup is an abyss: The Dodgers are off to a 6-5 start this season, which isn't terrible. Matt Kemp is off to a fantastic start this season, which...
• 4/13 B-R Blog: Single Season HR Records: Have you ever looked at the single season HR records in terms of pre-1987, post-2003 and during the period 1987 through 2003?...
• 4/12 Through The Fence Baseball: A sleeping giant is ready to awake in Pittsburgh: I’m a new writer to this site, and I have a confession to make – I am a proud Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Now aside from...
• 4/11 Baseball Reality Tour: Already Missing Manny: It was only three days ago. Manny Ramirez just retired this past Friday, and we already miss him. Manny, you may have been...
• 4/10 PaulLebowitz.com: Manny’s Fate Mirrors Shoeless Joe’s: The Barry Bonds prosecutors are lucky in the respect that they’re trying such a reviled and seemingly clever figure who...
• 4/9 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 4.9.2011: Peter Van Markwyk writes RE Rafael Soriano: Doesn’t Soriano have some access to a PR company to give him a few sound bites?...
• 4/8 WSJ Daily Fix: Ramirez’s Curious Cooperstown Case: The Count: The slugger doesn't have strong credentials, thanks largely to his comically inept defense -- not to mention his drug-test...
• 4/7 B-R Blog: Most Seasons With 150+ Games & .390+ OBA: Who are the leaders, since 1901, for the most seasons with 150+ games played in a season with an On-Base Average of .390 or better?...
• 4/6 Baseball Musings: Waste of Time and Money: David Post at the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy weighs in on the usefulness of prosecuting Barry Bonds: I think if people understood...
• 4/3 B-R Blog: Most HR In 1st 6 Games Of Season Since 1919: Since 1919, who has hit the most homeruns in the first 6 games of his team's season? If I did this correct, here's the leaderboard...

• 3/31 Through The Fence Baseball: Astros Quick Hits: Opening Day!: It’s here! Opening Day! One of the biggest days of the baseball season. Technically, the Astros don’t kick off the season...
• 3/30 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.29.2011: Jane **** at Confessions of a She-Fan writes RE Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett: I don’t think Hughes is the #3 pitcher because...
• 3/30 B-R Blog: On Base 4+ Times In Game 1 – Three Times Or More: Since 1919, how many batters have reached base 4+ times in his team's first game of the season, three times or more in his career?...
• 3/27 PaulLebowitz.com: Viewer Mail 3.27.2011: Jeff at Red State Blue State writes RE Oliver Perez: Much — if not all — of the vitriol towards Ollie is rooted not just in...
• 3/26 B-R Blog: 140+ HRs Since 1919 In Games Team Lost: Since 1919, how many players have hit 140+ homeruns in games that his team lost? If I did this query correct, here's the list...
• 3/24 PaulLebowitz.com: Testimony And Bluster: The Barry Bonds farce…er…trial: Why is the government wasting everyone’s time and, more importantly, money with...
• 3/23 BC Sports: Barry Bonds Trial: You Can't Handle the Truth!: I love that line delivered by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. It's one of those iconic kinds of cinematic dialogue....
• 3/23 Giants Nirvana: Notes: Offense, Loyalty, Aaron Rowand: Just a few links and notes and such... David Pinto ran through the San Francisco Giants team offense for 2011. His conclusion?...
• 3/23 SocraticGadfly: Barry Bonds is an idiot: In the first day of the perjury trial of MLB all-time home-run leader Barry Bonds, that was, in essence, the argument made by...
• 3/21 The Captain's Blog: Collateral Damage: “Getting Bonds” Has Been the Real Objective of the Steroid Era: (In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Collateral damage...
• 3/21 YankeeAnalysts.com: Collateral Damage: “Getting Bonds” Has Been the Real Objective of the Steroid Era: (The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog). Collateral damage is the “unintended or incidental” consequence...
• 3/21 Baseball Musings: Healed Hip: Rob Iracane writes on Alex Rodriguez’s productive spring: In an 8-1 win over the Phillies on Sunday, Rodriguez was slotted...
• 3/20 Giants Nirvana: UZR Mystery in Left Field: One of the surprises for me in 2010 was that Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell were able to achieve such respectable Ultimate Zone...
• 3/19 Giants Nirvana: Notes: Brandon Belt, Bruce Jenkins, Aaron Rowand: Well, it's been a while since I did one of these. I figured it's about time I share some link love and other random thoughts... SEMI-IMPORTANT...
• 3/18 MLB Fantasy Recon: Overall Contributions - Identifying Key Fantasy Players: Steroids?  Who would have guessed?Only four players in major league history have accomplished 40 home runs and 40 stolen...
• 3/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Eric Chavez, One-Time Future Hall of Famer: Joel Sherman (one of my favorite writers and I say this every time I mention him) had a great article today about new-to-the-Yankees...
• 3/16 obsessivegiantscompulsive: Give Bob Mariano a Long-Term Contract NOW, STAT!: I will admit first that when the Giants hired Bob Mariano as the hitting coordinator for the Giants farm system, my reaction was...
• 3/15 Chicken Friars: Heath Bell holds a Twitter Q&A with the fans: Heath Bell took some time off from his day in Arizona to hold a quick question and answer with his fans on twitter. Favorite ballpark...
• 3/14 PaulLebowitz.com: Bizarro Czar: From the people who blacked out the Yankees-Red Sox game in New York when I wanted to have a look at Manny Banuelos; those who...
• 3/13 The Crazy Crabbers: Randy Winn's Giant Debut: I was flipping through my copy of "San Francisco Giants: 50 Years" and was reliving some great Giants memories. Of all the...
• 3/12 PAAPFLY: Remembering Giants’ 2006 offseason, ‘7 Rule IV Draft: The 2003 season ended abruptly for the Giants with a baseball tightly clutched in the hand of Ivan Rodriguez, dusty after being...
• 3/9 Crashburn Alley: Raul and the Cliff: No, “Raul and the Cliff” isn’t the name of a new sitcom featuring Raul Ibanez and Cliff Lee. Rather, the title...
• 3/8 The Crazy Crabbers: Barry Bonds' Gold Gloves: Barry Bonds won eight Gold Gloves in his career, five of which came during his time with the Giants. All but one, in hindsight...
• 3/8 Baseball Musings: Player Vs. Player: Lawyer Craig Calcaterra analyzes the latest ruling in the Barry Bonds perjury trial that allows players to testify about what...
• 3/7 The Crazy Crabbers: Fighting for the good of the team - 2002 Giants: In the aftermath of the Carlos Silva and Aramis Ramirez fight, Chet West of the View From The Bleachers, who is running ESPN's...
• 3/6 MLBTradeRumors: Highest Paid Players Of The Last Three Decades: It's no secret that baseball player salaries have exploded over the last two decades, but just how much? With some help from...
• 3/6 PaulLebowitz.com: Instant Gratification: I fancy myself as a pretty good judge of talent. But sometimes I miss. Yes. It’s true. Digging through some old baseball...
• 3/5 Cubs Billy Goat Blog : Fantasy Friday: Changing times require Changing Strategies: As Bob Dylan would say, "The times they are a-changin". Baseball is constantly evolving.  Managers change.  Players...
• 3/4 MLBTradeRumors: Make Or Break Year: Carlos Beltran: This time the stakes are lower. When Carlos Beltran hit free agency after the 2004 season, he was in his prime, on the verge...
• 3/3 NY Baseball Digest: Duke Snider was Underrated: Although growing up in Brooklyn, and spending the first 26 years of my life there, I never had the affinity for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
• 3/3 Boys of Summer: Book Review: Willie Mays - The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch: "Mays would have made a splash no matter when he entered the major leagues, but 1951 served him unusually well. His skills shined...
• 3/2 PaulLebowitz.com: Admirable And Bizarre: In case you were unaware or thought it had disappeared, the Barry Bonds perjury case is still going on. From a logical (and non-legalese...

• 2/28 The Sporting Hippeaux: Reading Dan Rosenheck (and vice versa): The Continuing Search For Pujols Comparables: To make sense of what follows, it's probably sensible to read Dan's original column and my unnecessarily condescending response.Upfront...
• 2/27 B-R Blog: Duke Snider, Passes At 84: Click here for the details. If I did this right, he's on the list of players since 1920 to hit 220+ homeruns at home. See: Rk...
• 2/25 The Crazy Crabbers: Small Sample Size Fun: Spring Training Warning Edition: The Giants Spring Training slate kicks off today against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Scottsdale Stadium, it is a beautiful...
• 2/25 Cubs Stats: Tyler Colvin is Not Great (Yet): I present, for your viewing pleasure, two players -- one being Tyler Colvin: Player (Age) Tm PA HR SB CS ...
• 2/24 B-R Blog: More homers than strikeouts in a season: A reader asked me to post a list of all seasons where a batter had more home runs than strikeouts, minimum 20 homers. There have...
• 2/23 Cubs Stats: Albert Pujols and the Great Moderation: Pujols, Pujols, Pujols. We Cubs fans have talked little else recently. For the readers who have just recently exited their...
• 2/20 It's About the Money (Stupid): Simulpost: Jim Edmonds, the HOF, And Baseball’s Lost Generation: [ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON ESPN HERE] Jim Edmonds announced his retirement on Friday, his 17 season career finally grounded...
• 2/19 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Pujols and the 2004 wayback machineLooking back at three big Albert Pujols stories from seven years ago....
• 2/18 The Cardinal Nation Blog: Seven years ago today: Announcing Pujols’ new contractAlbert Pujols news on February 18, 2004 included one very big story....
• 2/17 B-R Blog: Extra Inning Home Runs: From 1974-2010 (The era for which the batting event finder is complete.)  forty-eight players hit more home runs than Jack Clark's...
• 2/16 T Van Poppel RC Ret Plan: Vindicated and Canseco’s Role as a Hero: Recently we mentioned how Jose Canseco is looking to try out for a shot in Nippon Professional Baseball and Korea Baseball Organization....
• 2/15 Giants Nirvana: Notes: WAR Graph, Barry Bonds, Marc Kroon: I'll keep this short, because Extra Baggs is back up and running on a daily basis now, and he's got everything covered as usual! This...
• 2/15 Fungoes.net: Cardinals don’t need Pujols in order to win: As Cardinal fans anxiously await any news of Albert Pujols signing, it’s worth looking into a particular argument being...
• 2/13 MLBTradeRumors: Albert Pujols Rumors: Sunday: Joel Sherman of the New York Post typically covers New York's baseball teams, but in today's column he acknowledges that many...
• 2/12 Baseball Musings: Fifty Year Catch: Sal Durante, the teenager who caught Roger Maris‘s 61st home run in 1961, received a tour of the new Yankee Stadium. There...
• 2/11 The Sporting Hippeaux: The Unintentional Martyring of Barry Bonds: Thanks to loyal reader, Tim, for drawing my attention to this impassioned argument from Phillies blogger and SweetSpot contributer,...
• 2/11 SocraticGadfly: Will the feds ever try Barry Bonds?: It's a quite legitimate question now, since federal prosecutors have cut from 11 to five the number of charges they're holding...
• 2/11 Giants Nirvana: Notes: Albert Pujols, Nate Schierholtz, Edgar Gonzalez: Big League Stew looks at whether the Rockies-Giants feud could become a "true rivalry". Our friends over at Off Base Percentage...
• 2/10 Baseball Musings: Weaver’s Case: Jered Weaver and the Angels presented their arbitration cases, Weaver asking for $8.8 million and the Angels offering $7.365 million....
• 2/9 B-R Blog: Fewest singles in a career: Here are the 20 players since 1901 who hit the fewest singles per plate appearance (minimum 3000 PAs) over their careers: Rk Player...
• 2/7 PAAPFLY: The most important note of the Giants' offseason?: The San Francisco Giants' Fanfest was held yesterday, and it looked an awful lot like the 3 month reunion of the World Series...
• 2/7 Giants Nirvana: Notes: Aaron Rowand, Barry Bonds, Michael Young: I'm  still cleaning through the Media Day archives, so I'll probably post a few more videos, and we'll have some more stuff...
• 2/7 The Sporting Hippeaux: BBWAA Drinks Michele Bachmann's Bathwater (or, Cooperstown, Arizona): As Ken Burns' Tenth Inning documentary so subtly points out, if we weren't so inclined to call the last two decades of baseball...
• 2/7 Bronx Baseball Daily: Classic Yankees: Jimmy Key: With the Yankees’ success over most of the last two decades, there are many fans who don’t know what it was like to have...
• 2/7 The Crazy Crabbers: Pablo Sandoval causes a media circus: If you want to see a media circus tell reporters that Pablo Sandoval is going to be speaking at a press conference. Today...
• 2/1 YankeeAnalysts.com: The graphical Andy Pettitte: I'd been wanting to write an Andy Pettitte career overview for a while but was hoping to be able to do it on the heels of the...

• 1/31 Blog Red Machine: Reds Caravan in LimaWhen the Reds Caravan visited Lima, Ohio, FanSided's John Parent, Co-Director of MLB, took a few notes for BRM....
• 1/31 The Daily Catch: MVVP: Most Valuable Valuable Player: The other day I was looking to see who won the MVP awards for certain years, and I made a typo into Google.  I typed “MVVP”. ...
• 1/31 Baseball Press: Ten Must-Read Baseball Books: Jim Morris' story is one of the most remarkable in sports history. (AP) There have been a lot of books written about the...
• 1/31 B-R Blog: Greatest birthday performances from the last 20 years: Following are the best birthday performances by batters for each different age. I determined "best" by highest Winning Probability...
• 1/25 B-R Blog: 3+ Games With 2B/3B/HR Since 1920: Conventional wisdom suggests that the single is the easiest part of hitting for the cycle. So, what about the "hard" part? Since...
• 1/25 The Crazy Crabbers: The Giants are over exposed and it will be there downfall next year: The Giants are in the news again, this time it is Tim Lincecum who was named by GQ as one of the 25 coolest athletes of...
• 1/25 Crashburn Alley: On Howard Eskin, Other Media: You have no doubt heard about the Howard Eskin tiff with Roy Halladay by now. The Burger King lookalike criticized the 2010 National...
• 1/24 PAAPFLY: Revisiting Zito's Contract: When decisions are made during times of desperation, the results are rarely pretty. In the 2006 offseason, the Giants were determined...
• 1/24 MLBTradeRumors: Ten Arbitration Cases To Watch: There aren't many unsigned arbitration eligible players remaining at this point in the winter, but many of the most high-profile...
• 1/22 NY Baseball Digest: Time to Weigh Saves – But How?: The recent retirement of Trevor Hoffman brought up the old debate about the value of the save. Hoffman had 601 in total for his...
• 1/21 Giants Nirvana: Notes: Eric Surkamp Interview, Barry Bonds, Andres Torres: The Giants agreed to terms with Andres Torres on a deal worth around $2.1MM Barry Bonds' trial hearing is set for Friday.  Jim...
• 1/19 The Crazy Crabbers: All-Time Giants: San Francisco Era: Continuing the series for the all-time Giants teams, today I wanted to look at the best players of the San Francisco era....
• 1/19 My Pinstripes: BD Hot Stove: The Milestones | Baseball Digest: Baseball Digest: The MilestonesWe're creeping closer and closer to spring training. Which will lead to opening day. Which will...
• 1/18 The Crazy Crabbers: All-Time Giants: The team of the 00's: Giants news is a little slow outside of pics of a slim downed Pablo Sandoval, so I was playing around with the Baseball-Reference...
• 1/18 MLBTradeRumors: Jose Bautista's Arbitration Case: This piece was first published on MLBTR on October 13th, 2010. Arbitration Expert Breaks Down Bautista’s Value With MLBTR A...
• 1/16 Giants Nirvana: The San Francisco Giants and Home Runs: As a baseball blogger, I read dozens of baseball articles each day. I'm fascinated and influenced by the myriads of brilliant...
• 1/15 Giants Nirvana: Garza vs. Cain - Part Two: Not-so-great Expectations: This is a continuation of a previous post, The Matt in the New Hat. In the first segment of the piece, I examined the similarities...
• 1/14 Marlin Maniac: History: Revisiting the 2003 NLDS Game Four: MLB.com is airing their 20 Greatest Games of the past 50 seasons, and the Marlins had three games nominated among their top 50...
• 1/14 Fungoes.net: Hall of Fame: What’s next after Blyleven and Alomar?: Kudos to the latest Hall of Famers, Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar, as well as to those writers who smartly voted them in. They...
• 1/13 Call to the Pen: Pen Polls (Hall of Fame Edition) Murph, Cobra and Crime Dog: What do Dale Murphy, Dave Parker and Fred McGriff all have in common? Well, among other things, if you read my article from last...
• 1/11 B-R Blog: Mailbag: Biggest Differences Between HR Leader and Runner-Up: Here's a question from Ehud: "Jose Bautista was the AL home run king in 2010, while the second-place HR leader (Paul Konerko)...
• 1/11 Baseball Musings: Unusable Evidence: The refusal of Greg Anderson to testify in the Barry Bonds perjury trial is causing the prosecution to lose the ability to present...
• 1/10 PAAPFLY: Barry Bonds, Cooperstown, steroids, amphetamines, and common sense: Barry Bonds is well within the conversation of the greatest players ever, with Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Ty Cobb....
• 1/10 Baseball Reality Tour: Bored? Have Fun with WPA/LI: Since an anonymous poster recently said our Managerial Coaching Tree study seemed "kind of boring", we thought we'd...
• 1/10 The Cardinal Nation Blog: The Steroids Era Hall of Fame MatrixAn approach to frame consideration of steroids era players for the Baseball Hall of Fame....
• 1/9 NY Baseball Digest: Steroids, Mike Piazza, and the Catchers Decline: The steroid talk this week brought up Mike Piazza‘s name courtesy of former New York Times journalist Murray Chass. He continued...
• 1/9 B-R Blog: The most runs scored per game over a career: Among players with at least 500 games played, here are the only 5 whose runs scored total is at least 80% of their games played...
• 1/8 SocraticGadfly: De-factoring steroids from possible HOF candidates: I'm not holier than thou on the issue of steroids in baseball. My take is, how much did roiding, in my estimation, boost a particular...
• 1/6 NY Baseball Digest: Early Look at the 2012 HOF Candidates: To wrap up this 24 hours of Hall of Fame, I decided to take an early look at the 2012 ballot, and perhaps project who I would...
• 1/6 Subjective Baseball: 2011 Hall of Fame: Winners and Losers: Winners:Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven: Well, obviously.  The former only had to wait two years, but the latter had to...
• 1/6 Bronx Baseball Daily: Discussion: Alomar and Blyleven Elected to the Hall of Fame: I ignored the Hall of Fame this offseason. Mostly I just didn’t have time with all of the swirling Yankees...
• 1/5 PAAPFLY: Hall of Fame hopeful: Jeff Kent: MANY GIANTS FANS hate Jeff Kent. Perhaps it was the shoving match between him and Bonds mid-season in 2002. It may have been his...
• 1/3 Baseball Reality Tour: Triple-Slash Triple Crown Winners: The last time someone won the Triple Crown was over forty years ago, when Carl Yastrzemski did it for the Boston Red Sox in 1967...
• 1/3 Baseball Musings: Future Inductees: Beyond the Boxscore uses Peak-Weighted WAR to rank players eligible for Hall of Fame elections in upcoming years. Interestingly,...
• 1/2 Subjective Baseball: Ten Best Rookie Seasons: In honor of the new year, today I will examine the best rookie seasons of all-time, dating back to 1901. Note 1: The player...
• 1/2 NY Baseball Digest: Could the “Steroid Grudge” End in 2013?: Later today, I will have my annual Hall of Fame show as I reveal the NYBD HOF vote and discuss all the candidates. The last couple...
• 1/2 NY Baseball Digest: NYBD Top 50 Yankees All Time: Putting together a “top list” is difficult for the Yankees due to their long and rich history. Although I didn’t...

• 12/31 SocraticGadfly: Rafael Palmeiro lies like a cheap rug: Alleged or believed baseball steroid users have taken different angles in the court of public opinion (and, in the case of Barry...
• 12/31 The Crazy Crabbers: 10 Best Giants Moments of 2010: It is the end of the year so it sees **** to look back on the best moments of 2010. First a few honorable mentions because...
• 12/31 Giants Nirvana: Hall of Fame Thoughts: Soon, the 2011 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees will be announced. At this point, I'm losing respect for it. I'm starting...
• 12/28 The Juglandaceous Porthole: In Defense of Bonds: Revisiting the 1998 NL MVP: If one believes Barry Bonds when he asserts that he did not take steroids until after getting upstaged by Mark McGwire and Sammy...
• 12/27 Giants Nirvana: 2011 Giants Hitting Projections: So far, Fangraphs has posted the Bill James projections and the Fans projections. I thought it'd be fun to project the slash...
• 12/22 A Diehard Cubs Fan Speaks Out: An Open Letter To Bud Selig Re: Reinstatement of Pete Rose : The BBWAA Hall of Fame ballots have officially been released.  One name that is not among the candidates to be enshrined...
• 12/20 Raise the Jolly Roger: News and notes: Fields, Pedro, Pavano, Yates, Park, 41 man roster?: As we approach the 100-day mark on the Opening Day Countdown, here are some Bucco notes… Josh Fields signed a minor league...
• 12/20 NY Baseball Digest: My 2011 Hall of Fame Ballot: Each year I discussed who I believe should be elected into the Hall of Fame. Although I don’t have a vote, it’s fun to...
• 12/20 The Biz of Baseball: COLLER: The Jayson Werth and Cliff Lee Deals Aren't As Crazy as You Think: Jayson Werth will make two and a half times the guaranteed money of New England Patriots QB Tom Brady. Cliff Lee...
• 12/20 Jason's Baseball Blog: Hall of Fame Ballot Review – Dale Murphy: Dale Murphy is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the 13th time this year, and received 63 out of 539 votes last year (11.7%). The...
• 12/18 B-R Blog: 8+ Games In A Post-Season With 1+ RBI: How many players had at least 1 RBI in at least 8 games in the same post-season? Here's the list - Rk Player Year #Matching  ...
• 12/17 B-R Blog: 7+ Games In A Post-Season With WPA>=.05: There's two things that jump out at me when I look at this list. Link to query used to derive the list below. Rk Player Year #Matching...
• 12/14 B-R Blog: Miguel Cabrera, Adrian Gonzalez, and 30 IBBs without 100 total BB in a season: Going back as far as we have intentional walk stats, here are the only guys to have at least 30 IBBs in a season without reaching...
• 12/14 The Captain's Blog: On the Whole, Cliff Lee Would Rather Be in Philadelphia; Lefty’s Surprise Decision Leaves Yankees Holding the Bag: For the second time in six months, Cliff Lee has slipped through the Yankees’ grasp. According to numerous reports, the off...
• 12/10 Caught Looking: Winter Meeting thoughts: In another life long ago, I worked in minor league baseball and was fortunate to attend a few winter meetings (Dallas in 2005...
• 12/10 NY Baseball Digest: MTV: Better Contract Howard Stern or Carl Crawford?: While Jayson Werth, Carl Crawford, and Cliff Lee were negotiating muti million dollar deals this week, there was someone that...
• 12/8 Boys of Summer: Werth's Worth: Have We Seen the Best of Jayson Yet?: The Washington Nationals made the biggest splash of the 2010 offseason to date on Monday, announcing a seven-year, $126 million...
• 12/7 Cubs Billy Goat Blog : A bad contract waiting to happen: Comparing Jayson Werth's contract to Alfonso Soriano's: It was bound to happen at some point.  Once every so often, some GM signs a player to a contract that has people scratching...
• 12/7 The Biz of Baseball: From the Winter Meetings: Inside Derek Jeter’s $51 Million Contract Extension with the Yankees: As we reported last week (see Derek Jeter's $51M Contract: Why It Was Reached Now, And How it Stacks Up), the announcement of...
• 12/7 YankeeAnalysts.com: The Boss should be in The Hall: It was announced on Monday that the Veteran's Committee did not elect George Steinbrenner to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Boss...
• 12/5 Obstructed View: The Next Ron Santo: Cubs fans have spent at least a decade being angry that Ron Santo was not in the Hall of Fame.  What made Santo's situation so...
• 12/3 The Crazy Crabbers: End of Season Review: Aubrey Huff: The headline when the Giants signed Aubrey Huff last season was "Sabean Signs Aging Veteran Coming Off Worst Year of...
• 12/2 Caught Looking: The 10 most memorable moments of 2010: Moments 6-10: Caught Looking recaps the most memorable moments and accomplishments from the 2010 season. Here are moments six through ten. 10....

• 11/24 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Did You Want Aubrey Huff?: Of the many criticisms directed at Ned Colletti over the years, there’s one I’ve never particularly agreed with, and...
• 11/23 NY Baseball Digest: Collins Using Respected Leyland as His Guide: So what to think about Terry Collins, who was introduced as the new manager of the New York Mets at a news conference Tuesday...
• 11/22 B-R Blog: Seasons Of 60+ RE24 Age 26 Or Younger: In honor of Mr. Votto winning the N.L. MVP Award this season, here's a list of players with seasons where they were age 26 or...
• 11/21 Bronx Baseball Daily: Jeter’s Agent Finds Yankees Negotiation Strategy “Baffling”: Via Mike Lupica of the NY Daily News: “There’s a reason the Yankees themselves have stated...
• 11/19 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Uggla, Rollins, Giants, Upton: On this date 20 years ago, a 26-year-old Barry Bonds took home his first National League MVP Award thanks to a .301/.406/.565...
• 11/16 Bronx Baseball Daily: 2010 Season Review: Derek Jeter: Derek Jeter entered the 2010 season as a 35-year-old coming off one of his best seasons of his career and finished as a...
• 11/16 B-R Blog: 4+ Seasons Of 400+ PA & Less Than 100 Hits: This is an interesting list. It's players with 4 seasons (or more) with at least 400 PA where they also had less than 100 hits....
• 11/2 PaulLebowitz.com: Score One For The Old-School: Let the excuses begin: Stat zombies don't just dislike Brian Sabean----they loathe him as the epitome of everything their...
• 11/1 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: MSTI’s 2010 in Review: Right Field: Andre Ethier (B+) .292/.364/.493 .857 23hr 1.9 WAR Looking back, one thing strikes me about Ethier’s season, and that’s...

• 10/29 Baseball Musings: Batter Versus Pitcher Predictions: This post by Tom Tango started me thinking about batter pitcher match ups and the predictive ability of a small number of plate...
• 10/29 Call to the Pen: Olde Man’s Tavern: Larry’s Place: We all know the draft in any sport is a hit or miss proposition. One team may view a player as a “can’t miss”...
• 10/27 Baseball Daily Digest: The 2010 P-WSAT:   Pre-World Series Assessment Test, 2010   True or False 1. The last time the Giants won the World Series, Willie Mays was...
• 10/26 B-R Blog: POLL: Lou Whitaker and the Hall of Fame: I know, I know, you Alan Trammell fans are angry that I'm doing a poll on Whitaker and not on Trammell. Deal with it. Lou Whitaker...
• 10/26 B-R Blog: Rangers/Giants by the numbers: Although this has almost nothing to do with this year's World Series, here's a look at the historical stats in matchups between...
• 10/22 Giants Nirvana: Stat Table: Giants Postseason RBI Streaks: Rk Strk Start End Games HR RBI BA Tm 1 Barry Bonds 2002-10-03 2002-10-09 5 3 ...
• 10/22 Giants Nirvana: Stat Table: Giants with 3+ Hits in a Postseason Game (since 2002): Player Date Series Gm# Tm Opp PA H Aubrey Huff 2010-10-20 NLCS 4 SFG PHI 5 3...
• 10/22 Giants Nirvana: SF Giants Franchise History: Longest Postseason HR Streaks: Rk Strk Start End Games HR 1 Jeffrey Leonard 1987-10-06 1987-10-10 4 4 2 Cody...
• 10/20 Baseball Musings: Superstar Draws: BRADFROMTEXAS left this question for me on Twitter: Is MLB going through a transition period among it’s fan drawing superstars?...
• 10/20 NY Baseball Digest: Josh Hamilton at Yankee Stadium: After watching Josh Hamilton use the friendly Yankee Stadium right field porch to his advantage, I said he would benefit from...
• 10/16 Pittsburgh Lumber Co: Classic Pirates memories, Win Expectancy style: While glancing at the Win Expectancy chart for last night’s Yankees-Rangers game, I realized that FanGraphs also has these charts...
• 10/13 Pirates Property: Pirates five areas of focus for the future: After the All-Star break, I wrote a post about five areas the Pirates needed to focus on during the final three months of the...
• 10/13 MLBTradeRumors: Big Raise Ahead: Jose Bautista’s 2011 Salary: Arbitration Expert Breaks Down Bautista’s Value With MLBTR A glance at the all-time single season home run leaders tells you...
• 10/9 NY Baseball Digest: Jim Thome and the Hall of Fame: I love to debate the Hall of Fame. Usually we reserve it for the offseason, especially during the late December/January time frame...
• 10/9 Baseball Musings: Rick Rips: Rick Ankiel hits a home run into the bay, giving the Braves a 5-4 lead with one out in the 11th. That was as impressive as any...
• 10/7 Baseball Musings: Zito Popped: Barry Zito won’t be on the Giants NLDS roster. Zito’s exclusion is not surprising, given his performance in Saturday’s...
• 10/6 Pitchers Hit Eighth: Calling Out The BBWAA: Yeah, that’s right.  I’m calling out the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) – the group that votes...
• 10/6 Caught Looking: NLDS, ALDS Preview: Phillies-Reds This matchup is very simple to me, I don’t think it will be much of a series. Let’s see, you have the...
• 10/6 B-R Blog: Card of the Week: 1985 Donruss #648 John Russell: John Russell's career in Major League Baseball is probably over. He had a fairly unremarkable playing career as a backup catcher...
• 10/4 Obstructed View: Baseball America's Top 30 Cubs Prospects, Part 7: We're looking at the top five one by one.   Below are the links to the other top 30 BA Cubs prospects. Part 1 •  Part 2...
• 10/1 Giants Nirvana: Pedro: Lincecum's start on Wednesday evoked memories of Pedro Martinez. Not the Pedro that was nearly unhittable in 1999 and 2000. The...

• 9/30 YankeeAnalysts.com: Brett Cecil becomes Majors' winningest pitcher against 2010 Yankees in Blue Jay rout; A-Rod hits 30-HR plateau for 13th straight season: It may say Managing General Partner next to Hal Steinbrenner's name, but it is in fact 24-year-old Brett Cecil who actually owns...
• 9/28 PaulLebowitz.com: Ichiro Is MY MVP....Sort Of: I'm getting my "anonymouses" confused: You'd never think that my honest appraisal of Ichiro Suzuki would've elicited such...
• 9/27 Pirates Property: Inside the Pirates’ Box Score: The skinny:  Pittsburgh won seven of nine games on the just concluded homestand that allowed them to finish the season 40-41...
• 9/27 B-R Blog: Large HR/PA % Age 29 And Older: This one is a random and simple list: Players age 29 or older, with the most seasons where they qualified for the batting title...
• 9/26 Baseball Musings: Games of the Day: Brandon Beachy gets a bit on an easier assignment in his second start as the Braves face the Nationals and Livan Hernandez. Beachy...
• 9/24 YankeeAnalysts.com: Third basemen WAR comparison: Prior to starting this WAR endeavor, I was initially most interested in the story that the numbers told on the topic of MLB’s...
• 9/24 Fungoes.net: Around the horn: Is Ludwick clutch?: Is Ludwick "clutch"? In his weekly chat Wednesday, Joe Strauss sneaked in a personal reflection about how "clutch"...
• 9/19 Baseball Musings: Eighteen Days in September: Troy Tulowitzki keeps pounding out hits and home runs as he leads the Rockies September charge. I thought I’d look at the...
• 9/18 PaulLebowitz.com: An Impossible Standard: He's a baseball player, not a symbol of all that is Holy: I find the criticism of Derek Jeter for his acting job on Wednesday...
• 9/14 B-R Blog: POLL: Edgar Martinez and the Hall of Fame: Edgar Martinez was signed by the Seattle Mariners as an amateur free agent in 1982 and played in 18 seasons in the majors with...
• 9/10 B-R Blog: Triple Crown winners, plus is this Albert Pujols’ worst season?: Thanks to reader BSK for the post idea. See, sometimes we agree! The Triple Crown (leading the league in batting average, home...
• 9/9 The Crazy Crabbers: 7 Giants near misses on Triple Crown: Baseball's Triple Crown is leading the league in home runs, runs batted in and batting average. The stats may no longer be the...
• 9/7 B-R Blog: Jim Thome is having a historic season for a 39-year-old: Jim Thome has continued to hit and hit and hit this year, and check out where he ranks now on the list of most plate appearances...
• 9/7 The Captain's Blog: Yanks Can’t Reap Benefits of Arod’s Return, but Hope to Harvest Them in October: The Yankees have gone a remarkable 21-3 in games that Alex Rodriguez has not played, so naturally, they’ve now lost two games...
• 9/4 PaulLebowitz.com: Pick A Side: Clean it up or don't----and know the consequences either way: Reading the Wall Street Journal this morning, I came across...
• 9/3 B-R Blog: The 20 greatest position players in baseball history: Here's one take on the twenty greatest position players in the history of major league baseball. In the comments on other recent...
• 9/2 B-R Blog: 10 Games Of 10+ TB: How many batters since 1920 have 10+ games where they had 10+ TB in the contest? Here's the answer: From 1920 to 2010, Games requiring...
• 9/1 Call to the Pen: What’s Next: Manny Ramirez, PEDs, and the Hall of Fame: As rumors swirled this past week about the Dodgers and their enigmatic outfielder Manny Ramirez, something very strange began...

• 8/30 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Saying Goodbye to Mannywood: Say this for the 2+ years Manny Ramirez spent in Dodger blue: it was never boring. He was, at various points, both the most beloved...
• 8/24 My Pinstripes: Bautista Belts Bombers Again: Jose Bautista channeled his inner Reggie Jackson last night. Mr. October was famous for getting brushed back, dusting himself...
• 8/20 PaulLebowitz.com: House Of Lies, World Of Agendas: Wasting money and time as a means to an end: Yesterday, Roger Clemens was indicted on charges of lying to Congress when...
• 8/20 Bus League Baseball: The Professional 500 Homerun Club: The other night, I found myself wondering what would happen if we took the career totals of the top homerun hitters in major league...
• 8/19 TetreaultVision: Roger Clemens Faces Federal Indictment: From my piece over at BizofBaseball.com on the breaking story: Federal prosecutors are expected to bring an indictment against...
• 8/18 B-R Blog: Jim Thome & top OPS+ seasons for a 39-year-old: Jim Thome is raking so far this year. Here are the only players (1901-present) to post an OPS+ of at least 150 in age 39 season,...
• 8/14 B-R Blog: Post 1919 Batters With Most 3+ HR Games: Alex Rodriguez hit three home runs in the Yankees game this evening. Since 1920, heading into today, which players had the most...
• 8/11 My Pinstripes: A Cycle Of Home Runs: Alex Rodriguez has never done it. Neither has Albert Pujols, Barry Bonds, Jim Thome, or anyone else that I am aware of....
• 8/10 The Crazy Crabbers: Jeff Kent and the Hall of Fame: Me and the future Hall of FamerBaseball Reference has a running topic on their blog discussing the Hall of Fame worthiness of...
• 8/9 Caught Looking: Pedro Alvarez: On Saturday night I followed the Pirates-Rockies gamecast online while official scoring a game for a local collegiate Prospect...
• 8/9 My Pinstripes: Nothing Like a Good Beckett Smashing: Getting ready for today's Yankees-Red Sox series finale, but still smiling over last night's Josh Beckett drubbing. A 7-2 win...
• 8/9 B-R Blog: Perfect Games – For Batters: How many batters, since 1920, have had 12+ "perfect days" at the plate in games where they had 4+ At Bats? By this, I mean, going...
• 8/9 Bronx Baseball Daily: List of MLB Players Who Have Been Connected to Steroids: For just about two weeks I read an article everyday about how people didn’t care about Alex Rodriguez‘s quest for 600...
• 8/6 Foul Ground: Standing Around On 599: Monday morning, Tschanen and my friend Jason decided we would embark on trying to witness history: Alex Rodriguez’s 600th home...
• 8/5 Bronx Baseball Daily: List of MLB Players Who Have Been Connected to Steroids: For just about two weeks I read an article everyday about how people didn’t care about Alex Rodriguez‘s...
• 8/5 Wezen-Ball: A-Rod's 600th & Timing Milestone Trots: Alex Rodriguez finally hit his 600th home run this morning, in the first inning of the Yankees/Blue Jays game off of hurler...
• 8/5 Wezen-Ball: A-Rod's 600th & Timing Milestone Trots: Alex Rodriguez finally hit his 600th home run this morning, in the first inning of the Yankees/Blue Jays game off of hurler...
• 8/4 B-R Blog: Most HRs In 1st 2,267 Career Games: Alex Rodriguez hit his 600th career HR today in his 2,267th career game. Coming into today, who has hit the most HRs in their...
• 8/3 B-R Blog: POLL: Larry Walker and the Hall of Fame: Larry Walker was one of the great young players with the early 1990s Expos and then became a star playing in numbers-inflating...
• 8/2 The Crazy Crabbers: Bowkermania! Comes to an End: The flame of hope that Bowkermania would return to San Francisco have been distinguished. John Bowker has been traded along with...
• 8/1 The World's Worst Sports Blog: The Choke Index: It’s been quite a while since Alex Rodriguez hit Home Run #599 – nine days since July 22, but more quantifiably, 42...

• 7/30 NY Baseball Digest: Maholm or Gorzelanny is the Type of Deal Mets Should Make: You have heard names like Ted Lilly, Rich Harden, Paul Maholm, and Tom Gorzelanny connected with the Mets the last few days. I...
• 7/28 The World's Worst Sports Blog: The 600 Home Run Almanac: People are interested in players who hit 600 home runs, at least judging by the Google searches that point people here. With that...
• 7/26 B-R Blog: POLL: Vladimir Guerrero and the Hall of Fame: The readers have spoken, and a poll for Vladimir Guerrero is up next. Please read through, vote in the poll below, and add your...
• 7/23 My Pinstripes: A-Rod's Accomplishments in the Air: It should be a time of great excitement. A time for baseball fans to rejoice, to mark another milestone. A time when Alex Rodriguez...
• 7/22 The Crazy Crabbers: Buster Posey’s July: Buster Posey - Ruler of all he seesBuster Posey the chosen one, the slayer of opposing pitchers, the destroyer of preconceived...
• 7/21 YankeeAnalysts.com: The other record A-Rod is pursuing: RAB ran a post Tuesday highlighting all of Alex Rodriguez's under appreciated achievements. The post is worth the read, but it...
• 7/20 Baseball Musings: Feelings: Ed Valentine wonders how fans should feel about Alex Rodriguez reaching 600 home runs. Frankly, I don’t think it matters....
• 7/14 El Maquino: ASG Host: All Work, No Play: Last night at Angel Stadium, the Angels’ superstar centerfielder Torii Hunter went down swinging to Adam Wainwright, failing...
• 7/7 Baseball Musings: Alex and the Hall: From the comments on Alex Rodriguez approaching 600 home runs: On XM radio the other day they were discussing A Rod’s HOF certainty...
• 7/7 B-R Blog: The 400 Career HR & [RBI > 3*HR] Club: Just goofing around with Play Index this morning, I asked it show me all batters with HR>=400 and RBI>3*HR in their career....
• 7/3 El Maquino: Thome Cracks Top 6: Jim Thome hit his 573rd and 574th homeruns today against Wade Davis (RAYS).  So: 5. Frank Robinson (21yrs, 586hr) 6. Thome (Middle...

• 6/19 B-R Blog: Card of the Week: 1995 Leaf Limited #89 John Valentin: (click on images for larger versions) Leaf started out in the 1980s as the Canadian version of Donruss. Starting in 1985, Donruss...
• 6/5 B-R Blog: Card of the Week: 1989 Upper Deck #1 Ken Griffey Jr.: (click images for larger versions) I had another card planned for this week but with Ken Griffey Jr. retiring I decided to pinch-hit...
• 6/3 WalkOff Walk: Ken Griffey: A Career of Being Overshadowed: Leave it to poor Ken Griffey, Jr. to have the most poignant night of his career slide down below the fold of the sports page...

• 5/29 B-R Blog: Miguel Cabrera’s 3 HR in a loss: Yesterday Miguel Cabrera hit 3 HR in a game that the Tigers lost. Below is the list of all times this has been done. The most...
• 5/29 MLBTradeRumors: Gammons On Ellsbury, Varitek, Beltre: Peter Gammons made his regular appearance on WEEI's The Big Show on Friday afternoon to chat about the Red Sox. Nick Bove has...
• 5/28 MLBTradeRumors: Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Lee, Braves, Mets, Oswalt: On this date 12 years ago, Diamondbacks manager Buck Showalter ordered closer Gregg Olsen to intentionally walk Barry Bonds with...
• 5/27 BC Sports: The Performance-Enhancing Dichotomy: When a baseball player takes steroids, it's much more **** than an NFL player doing the same exact thing. Andrew Sharp at...
• 5/25 B-R Blog: Highest WAR to End a Career: The end of a career is an interesting thing. Many players play out their careers until the bitter end, holding on to the memories...
• 5/25 B-R Blog: Old Sluggers Are Rare To Find: Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Season Finder - players 35 and older with the most seasons of an ISO of at least...
• 5/25 B-R Blog: The Rocking Chair Rajah – Oldest Players With a 3 HR Game: Seventy five years ago today, Babe Ruth hit his last home run.  In fact, he hit the last 3 home runs  of his career on  that...
• 5/19 B-R Blog: WAR Data: Best Position Players Not In the Hall of Fame: Here's a post concept that's sure to be a lightning rod for discussion: who are the best position players not to be inducted into...

• 4/24 MLBTradeRumors: Famous Unsigned Draft Picks: Each year, the 30 clubs will select 50 or so players in June's amateur draft, but they only end up signing around 30 of those...
• 4/21 B-R Blog: Missing the cycle by a single: Earlier this season, the Rockies' Ian Stewart had his second career game where he missed the cycle by a single. This is the rarest...