The true MVP of the '00s

Dave Cameron of FanGraphs explains why, as the decade draws to a close, Albert Pujols is not the game's most valuable player.

Story | Conversation | December 14, 2009

The internal trade deadline

...words, the Blue Jays were left to deal with a very small field: the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies and maybe -- maybe -- the Angels or Dodgers. Not exactly a situation that teems with trade leverage. As...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 22, 2009

Defense highlights offseason moves

Coco Crisp is nearing a deal with the Oakland Athletics, according to late word from MLB Trade Rumors' Tim Dierkes. Presumably Crisp will slot into Oa...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 20, 2009

Another strange twist for Lowell

The nixing of a trade to Texas is another strange twist in Lowell's Sox odyssey.

Is Seattle Milton Bradley's last chance?

Difficult teammates come with all forms of behavior. Albert Belle was known as Mr. Freeze to the others in the Indians' clubhouse because he liked to ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 19, 2009

Offseason notebook: Outfield shuffle

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the other big moves of the week beyond the Roy Halladay-Cliff Lee trade and John Lackey signing, leading with the Hideki Matsui and Mike Cameron signings.

Searching for Bobby Abreu

It wasn't until Feb. 12 that Bobby Abreu signed last winter, after waiting and waiting and waiting. The music had stopped, the big dollars were gone a...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 18, 2009

An all-decade, all-value lineup card

Erik Manning of FanGraphs pored over every performance from an MLB player between 2000 and 2009 and created the best possible 1-9 lineup of players from that period. Odd: Carlos Delgado (2000) leads off. Cool: This team would average nine runs a game.

Story | Conversation | December 18, 2009

BP: Best and worst teams of the '00s

Baseball Prospectus brings the heat with a controversial idea: the best team ... of the entire 2000s ... was the 2001 Seattle Mariners. Wait, what? They lost in the ALCS. Ah, but you can prove it with metrics. To explore, come inside.

Story | Conversation | December 17, 2009

Trading A-Gon a matter of timing

How much would the Padres have to get in return for Adrian Gonzalez to get a fair deal? "I don't know if you can put together enough young talent t...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 17, 2009

Aces

Every good baseball team has one. They're the players who can stop a losing streak, who can give their team a chance to win every time they take the mound. They...

A new Chuck takes on Texas

...ball ratios and whether Roy Halladay is necessarily a better option than Cliff Lee, or whether the Phillies should have taken this route, and consider a couple of things. For Halladay, this is a tremendous...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 16, 2009

...US PRESSWIRE Sep 25, 2009; Milwaukee, WI, USA; Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cliff Lee (34) throws a pitch...

Scouts watch Cuban lefty throw

Aroldis Chapman threw a bullpen session on Tuesday in Houston in front of representatives from about 15 major league teams, according to a baseball source who attended the workout.

Nastiest pitches in baseball

Using Pitch f/x technology, we found the nastiest pitches -- and some of the worst -- in the game at the close of the decade.

Story | Conversation | December 15, 2009