No, Mark Bellhorn’s Ks are Not Acceptable

The Mark Bellhorn controversy has reared its head again in the comments. Well, the one thing I disagree with is this statement. If Bellhorn could simply take his extraneous K’s and turn them into contacts while maintaining the same BABIP, then yeah, that’d...

All-MLB Prototypical Lineup

As a preface to this column, I am copying and pasting the email that Joe Hamrahi of Baseball Digest Daily sent out earlier tonight about a guest column I did for them. Evan Brunell guest stars this week on Baseball Digest Daily with a fantastic article on the state of...

Big Red Sox News

Jay Payton Designated for Assignment, Adam Stern called up. Ramon Vazquez to Cleveland for Alex Cora, Kevin Millar requests a trade, Red Sox trying to accomodate. I need some time to collect myself. Thoughts later. Just keep in mind we need to make a move to get Alex...

Are we Foulked? To be Curt, no.

Keith Foulke is headed to the DL (retroactive to Tuesday) because they’re going to open up his left knee and do an arthroscopy. Hopefully they can find the problem and fix it, alleviating the pain. The legs are so important to a pitcher. They are the driving...

Bases Per Batter : An Explanation

Rebecca of Reb Sox chimes in with a more in-depth look at BpB… Due to the enormous amount of interest I have received regarding my pitcher efficiency measurement, I have been meaning to write a more streamlined article defining BpB (Bases per Batter) and...

Everyday Eddie to the Red Sox?

The Guild of Red Sox Nation e-mailed me today with a rumor today that stated that the Red Sox would trade 1B Kevin Millar, 2B Mark Bellhorn, and a minor leaguer to the Seattle Mariners for 2B Bret Boone and RP Eddie Guardado. I can’t quite fathom why the...