What interested me online this week…

A lot of great stuff this week online from a baseball stat and sabermetric perspective. I don’t want to take too much time building it up, so I will just get right into the details.
The Great Clutch Project
I mentioned this a few weeks ago, concerning Tom Tango asking fans to join him in a battle [...]

Transactionary Tales Part 3 - AL West

Wrapping up the AL now with the four-team AL West. In this, the division in baseball with the fewest teams, some of the biggest moves of the off-season have taken place. But, the balance of power seems to have stayed where it was at the end of the 2007 season, with two teams standing out [...]

Transactionary Tales Part 2 - AL East

We continue now with part two of six in our looking and evaluating transactions since the end of the World Series in October; helping you, the rabid baseball fan keep track of it all. One major trade in this division in on the verge of being completed, so we will dissect that one when we [...]

Transactionary Tales Part 1 - AL Central

Since a week after the 2007 World Series ended, we have seen a fury of player movements. Drops, deals, signings, and salary negotiations have been rampant the past three months. As a matter of fact, in my quick glance at everything, it looks like the Red Sox and Dodgers are the only teams that have [...]

Bedard or Mazzone?

It is often said that if there was a wing for coaches in the Baseball Hall of Fame, there would be one man and one man only in it. Better yet, the wing would probably be named for him.
Leo Mazzone, currently pitching coach with the Orioles, is considered a miracle worker amongst baseball insiders and [...]