If you’ve followed my posts on my other site, BaseballOnMyBrain.com, you know that I often talk about how to watch the game and that a baseball game is so much more than just an isolated incident, but rather compares to an episode of a soap opera, drawing on things that happened not just yesterday but […]

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 […]

P.J. Dragseth compiles the thoughts and recollections from 19 veteran professional baseball scouts. Does he turn it into a book worth reading? Find out in my review of Eye for Talent.

The story is a sad one – Mike Coolbaugh, 35 years old, was killed by a errant line drive during a minor league baseball game on July 22, 2007 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was likely a man you had never heard of – his 91 plate appearances scattered amongst 44 Major League Baseball games […]

A while back I was talking with Kevin Goldstein from BaseballProspectus.com, and he made the comment that on average, one eventual Hall of Famer debuts each baseball season. That thought has stayed with me in the month or so since I heard it, and it was the thought that kept coming to my mind as […]

If you’re not familiar with the Savvy Girls (formerly Of Summer, now just presumably savvy in general) – I have a feeling you will be. What started as two women who met through soccer and found a common enjoyment of baseball is on the verge of becoming a brand name in the marketing of baseball […]