If you read only one thing….. Don’t look now, but the Houston Astros have won eight consecutive games and ten out of eleven to take a commanding lead in the AL West. This coming from a team that hasn’t won more than 70 games since 2010 and haven’t been above

View image | gettyimages.com This is Part II of my Names or Numbers series (Part I is here), designed to help you keep an open mind on draft day while pursuing maximum value with each pick. I do a lot of mock drafts each preseason, and I highly recommend that you do the same.

As we finally get to the end of the season and the end of this series, we see some interesting results when looking at pitchers. Pitching runs created are similar to runs created for batters and here we see some fascinating results. National League rankings were done according to those

The wonderful game of baseball provides a plethora of things to talk about, and those things don’t always tie together very neatly. Instead of trying to force a square peg through a round hole, I’m going to embrace this platform to speak on a variety of wide spanning topics that

After looking at all three tiers of the NL only starters, we have discovered that pitchers themselves have very little control over what happens once the hitter makes contact with the ball. Strikeout rates were far and away the best predictor of pitcher success between the three tiers. Of course,

While the 2014 Major League Baseball season hasn’t yet begun, pitchers and catchers have already started reporting and Spring Training is about to be in full swing with the first full slate of games set to start on February 28. The preseason may only be a couple days old, but

There is no more controversial fantasy position than on the rubber. At least starting pitchers are more consistent than relief pitchers. This doesn’t remove the fact that fantasy baseball is still dependent on three statistics that most sabermetricians have thrown out of the window. In particular, wins simply don’t matter

At this point in the season, each team has about 11 more trips through their starting rotation. I thought it would be helpful to see which rotations face the easiest and toughest competition over the final two months. With that information, we can identify some guys to add off the

Cole Hamels might be perhaps my favorite pitcher in Major League Baseball. His awful first half to date pains me every night. Hamels was of course my Cy Young pick for the National League, and also was my #3 Starting Pitcher in the preseason – behind Clayton Kershaw and Stephen

We all know there is a strong correlation between swinging strike rate (SwStr%) and strikeout rate (K%). But how strong is it? And how can we take that correlation and determine which players are most likely to see a rise or fall in strikeout rate going forward based on their