Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)

So many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Opening up the mailbag

After two days into the playoffs, we'll reach into the mailbag: Q: I'm a Tigers fan and now that it's over officially, I'm trying to look forward to ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 09, 2009

MVPs and LVPs, Cy Youngs and Yuks …

It's time to bid farewell to another season that was filled with highs, lows and so much in between. With that said, here come the awards.

Successes, struggles and sabermetrics

Baseball Prospectus analyzes the best and worst performances of the 2009 MLB season through its sabermetric lens.

Story | Conversation | October 02, 2009

Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis

Milwaukee general manager Doug Melvin wrote in an e-mail posted here Monday that Trevor Hoffman is the Cal Ripken of pitchers, in the way that he prep...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009

Giambi helps keep Rockies relaxed, rolling

Maybe it is Yorvit Torrealba who has earned the honor of wearing Jason Giambi's Golden Thong, after Torrealba's ninth-inning three-run double gave the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2009

BP Daily: The future of Mark Reynolds

Baseball Prospectus examines Arizona Diamondbacks 3B Mark Reynolds, dismissed by some as a big whiffer (204 K last year) with subpar defense. Not so fast: He could develop as one of the NL's more complete players over time.

Story | Conversation | August 21, 2009

FILE - This is a June 6, 2007, file photo showing San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, right, talking with baseball writer Barry Bloom in the dugout tunnel prior to the Giants baseball...

FILE - This is a June 6, 2007, file photo showing San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, right, talking with baseball writer Barry Bloom in the dugout tunnel prior to the Giants baseball...

Baseball's week of U-turns

The baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009

A special kind of selfishness

...news of steroids use by some major star, like a David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmeiro or Mark McGwire, and the crosshairs of public scrutiny lock...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 31, 2009

The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it

...or the baseball writers, or the Veterans Committee. Rose's place in history, and that of Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire and every other elite player who has been implicated in one way or...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009

Eight reasons for Halladay to be a Phillie

Eight great reasons the Blue Jays and Phillies should work out a Roy Halladay trade: Maximizing value: Halladay will have very high trade value for t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 23, 2009

Ranking the AL's roughest roads to the playoffs

Schedule advantages and disadvantages are difficult to calculate in baseball, because you don't know who will be hurt, which team will be hot and whic...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 16, 2009

7 Jul 1998: National League member Barry Bonds #25 of the San Francisco Giants is congratulated by teammates Devon White #22 of the Arizona...