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All of a Sudden, Yankees Good at Catching and Throwing

NEW YORK -- Over the past few years, I have been to a lot of Yankees games. They keep it interesting, but there are a few things you come to count on. The YMCA. "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch. And horrendous defense by the home team. This last has become as much a constant as the first two. The...

Don't Look Now, but the Rays Are in Play

Anyone with even a passing interest (not you, Rick) in the work of Baseball Prospectus' authors is probably aware how high they regard the current Devil Rays, all the way from the top down, or the bottom up, depending on your perspective. The praise is warranted: With a tiny payroll and a mall for a ballpark, the Rays have...

Destroying Baseball, One Computer at a Time

Wouldn't it be fun if, for once and for all, we could put a few lingering false dichotomies in the past? If we could agree that, as it stands right now, "blog" doesn't mean "anti-mainstream," but is simply a way of organizing a website in tidy and sequential fashion, and that what one chooses to do with that organization...

Scott Kazmir Is Thinking Playoffs

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, excuse me, the Tampa Bay Rays have been a Major League franchise for ten years now, and in that time they've never won more than 70 games in one season. Instead year after year they've been a team with a lot of young talent, but never enough to make a serious run in the AL East.I'm not sure much...

BP Scribe Is No Fan of the George Mitchell Investigation

If you've ventured around these parts before, you know some of us are having quite a bit of fun with this whole George Mitchell steroid investigation. Namely because Mr. Mitchell seems to be getting nowhere. But at least he's trying, man.In any event, over at Sports Illustrated today, Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus...