Sabermetrics has come a long way over the past couple of decades. It wasn’t all that long ago that only a small cult of followers knew, or even cared to know, about advanced baseball metrics. Yet today, many advanced stats … Continue reading
Leading up to Opening Day, we’ll be previewing the divisional rivals the Yankees will be competing with in 2013. Today, the Tampa Bay Rays: Tampa Bay chalked up 90 wins last season, but thanks to the surprising Orioles, finished in … Continue reading
The Angels didn’t show Mike Trout and his agent Craig Landis the money. Not yet, at least. They won’t have to for a couple more seasons. Trout received a $20,000 pay raise from the Angels, who renewed his contract Saturday. To … Continue reading
All of the discussion about performance enhancing drugs in recent weeks (namely: Alex Rodriguez) has caused me to think a lot about why players choose to use PEDs in the first place. Obviously their goal is to get an edge … Continue reading