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While the hot stove is cooling off as we near the start of spring training, there’s still the occasional murmur of a trade here and there that might swap present, future and/or former stars for one another. The merits of trades are instantly put through the ringer by bloggers, pundits and the casual fan, and [...]

I’d kind of thought I’d taken a look at all the 2009 season preview titles when the folks at ACTA Sports sent me The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009. Let me first say that I really enjoy the work that The Hardball TImes puts out. I subscribe to their RSS feed, I like their blog [...]

Here we are mired in the middle of the off-season, constantly checking our team’s pots and pans on the Hot Stove to see if anything is cooking, done, or in some cases, smells fishy. While players are only a few weeks away from reporting to Spring Training and are undoubtedly hard at work in the [...]

Time to get back on the horse and talk about some new baseball books…and what better to end the playoff hiatus than the world famous Bill James Handbook 2009. So assuming you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the past 30 years or so, and you have even the slightest interest in statistical analysis [...]

Even though there are still a few weeks to go in the season, the end is coming, and so I’ve gravitated to a few titles that deal with putting a season under wraps. The first is Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs, by Bill Chuck and Jim Kaplan, a title from the good folks at [...]

Still basking in the new-season smell of Opening Day 2008, I thought it best to start with a book that certainly has the power to affect how you look at baseball past, present and future: The Bill James Goldmine 2008. If you’re not familiar with Bill James, well, shame on you. OK, enough with the [...]