Of Bullpens and Contracts

What the devil is going on in MLB bullpens this month? Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen three different GM’s spend a total of $111 million dollars on four individual free agents, all four RP’s. The average annual salary of those four pitchers...

5 Questions: 2006 Rotation

Now that Josh Beckett is (almost) a Red Sox, it’s worthwhile to ask a few pertinent questions about the makeup of next year’s starting rotation. The Sox entered the offseason with 6 viable SP’s – Schilling, Wakefield, Clement, Wells, Arroyo,...

Breaking Down Beckett

By Andrew Lipsett As you saw from Evan’s gleeful post, the Red Sox tonight pulled off an absolute blockbuster deal, the kind that can redefine a team. Think Pedro c. 1997, and you get an idea of what today might have meant for the Boston Red Sox; we have...

2006 Returnees: What Can We Expect?

So far, this offseason has been all about the potential newcomers, from the front office to center field to the bullpen. But I want to make a quick run through the lineup and focus on our returning players: what can we expect in 2006? Who will improve, who will...

Pythagorean Differentials: Possible Causes

I have to apologize right up front for today’s column: not for the content, which I think is pretty good, but for the fact that it’s an old article I wrote for my other blog back at the end of June. I just started a new job today, and am in the middle of...