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The Dugout: Cliff Lee is Just the Best

The New York Yankees have flown to the Arkansas home of Texas Rangers ace Cliff Lee in the hopes of adding him to a rotation that already features Phil Hughes, Andy Pettitte's old clothes, and a cardboard cutout of Joba Chamberlain. This comes as shocking news to people who have never watched baseball and don't remember...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Los Angeles Dodgers' 2009 Preview

The picture to the right deserves a Pulitzer nomination.Today, The Dugout continues its month-long series of team previews by visiting the Dodgers' team chat room. Perhaps more importantly, we're resurrecting the personality of everyone's favorite Fauknerian man-child Dugout character. Wait, maybe he's the second favorite....

The Dugout: Fire No More Again

Yesterday, Fire Joe Morgan announced that it is officially coming to an end. For over three years, the blog tirelessly gave the business to mainstream sports journalism as no one else could. Their sonning of guys in suits was hilarious and legendary, but just as impressive was the collection of running gags -- the...

The Dugout: On-Base Plus Slugging

Poor on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). Your only meaningful purpose is to be calculated as a means to obtain your big brother, adjusted on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS+). You're not a bad stat, OPS. You're actually a very solid indicator of a baseball player's performance. You're just...superfluous. OPS+ has...