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I had an excellent time talking baseball with Keith Law on Thursday's Baseball Today podcast. (What, you wanted us to break down LeBron James and Kevin Durant?) The show may have run a little long, but trust me, it's worth the listen! 1. With Troy...

Today's links are just gearing up for the Topic of the Day, more about which later ... I don't know if Steve Buckley and I see eye to eye on the Hall of Fame, but even if he votes for Jack Morris but not Jeff Bagwell, when it comes to making his ...

In the latest entry in Joe Posnanski's Hall of Fame blowout, Joe gives the thumbs-down -- reluctantly, I'm sure, because Joe's such a nice guy -- to Harold Baines, John Franco, Juan Gonzalez, Don Mattingly, John Olerud, Dave Parker, Lee Smith, and .....

With Cliff Lee's next gem just around the corner, here's some e-mail about a related subject: Rob, I just wanted to drop you a line regarding your recent Top Ten postseason pitching performances. Interesting, naturally, but I was quite surprised yo...

Honestly, I can't remember seeing the baseball writers as worked up about anything as they are about Roberto Alomar. Here's Ken Rosenthal with a fairly representative opinion: Our membership is too bloated, too riddled with voters who do not tak...

Tyler Kepner's on Bert Blyleven's side. He's on Jack Morris', too. And for that, we can probably blame a phone call to Pat Gillick, who was general manager of the Blue Jays when Morris pitched for that club. Kepner: A lot of statistically minded v...

With just moments to spare, we've got Dan Shaughnessy's Hall of Fame ballot. It's not the worst ballot I've seen. It's short: just three names. And I heartily endorse two of them: Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven (the other, Jack Morris, not so much)...

Leave it to TangoTiger to notice an inconvenient truth ... Jack Morris has faced 16,501 batters in his MLB career, including the playoffs. His W/L record is 261-190. He has given up 1854 runs, earned or not, which is 5% less than the league average ...