Barometer In Seattle

In the past 20 years, statistical analysis of baseball has been progressing at a fast pace. Bill James published his Baseball Abstracts starting in 1977 and ever since then, Sabermetrics has taken off. Back then, James relied on a calculator and a pen and paper to do his calculations, and the application of the information [...]

Gordon Beckham for Adrian Gonzalez?

There is a rumor going around about sending Gordon Beckham to the San Diego Padres for Adrian Gonzalez. I think it would be a smart move to acquire Adrian Gonzalez.

Fantasy Is Not Real Life

Some of our readers might be familiar with Fire Joe Morgan. If not, I highly recommend checking out their site (www.firejoemorgan.com), although they have “retired” from sports blogging. Anyway, their format is something that has been copied often, and I thought I’d get in on the mix. Here’s my FJM style critique of Eric Karabell’s [...]

Cubs Ink Marlon Byrd To 3-Year Deal

After long-exploring multiple trade and free agent options, the Cubs finally decide to sign 32-year old Marlon Byrd to a 3-year deal, worth $15 million. Byrd is the definition of a “late-bloomer”. He didn’t hit his stride offensively until reaching Texas in 2007, having struggled previously in Washington and Philadelphia. Things changed when he became [...]

West Coast Shakeup

Well, the hot stove has been awfully lukewarm thus far this winter, but the Roy Halladay three-team deal brought some much-anticipated heat. It also brought what could figure to be the first step in the changing of the guard in the AL West, as according to the dynamics of the deal so far, Cliff Lee [...]

The Risky Trio

These three guys perfectly exemplify the idea of high risk and high reward in Major League Baseball. The following players all have the ability and track record to be completely dominant starting pitchers. Weighed against them, however, are their individual injury histories. It seems that they are consistently battling the disabled list almost as often [...]

Please Lou- Please Leave Theriot at SS

With the recent success of Cubs prospect Starlin Castro there is talk about bringing up Castro and shifting current shortstop Ryan Theriot to second base. Besides it being a bad idea to call Castro up this early it is arguably a worse idea to move Theriot to second base. Theriot would go from a slightly [...]

Brett’s Team of the 2010-2019 Decade

With the decade of baseball from 2000-2009 about to be complete, I figured it was a great time to come up with a tentative list of who might be on my team of the next one. Granted there’s a chance several players might flame out, and several players might end up being on the team [...]

Surprise! Sportswriters Get One Right

The Cy Young award winners were announced this week, and as many predicted Zack Greinke won in the AL and Tim Lincecum won in the NL. This shows some forward thinking by the BBWAA, who usually determine the winner of this award by the number of wins and losses a pitcher has and their ERA. [...]

Player Prediction: Wandy Rodriguez

When you think of the starting pitching in Houston, the name that comes to mind is almost assuredly Roy Oswalt. Yet for the 2010 season and beyond, Wandy Rodriguez looks like the player to keep your eye on. This 30-year-old lefty has been with the Astros his entire five year career in the Major Leagues. [...]

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