Last year, many who pay attention to such things placed their bets on the Arizona Diamondbacks to lead a strong NL West.  Those souls were all wrong, both about the D’backs and about that strong NL West.  Since then we haven’t heard too much about the D’backs and their prospects for 2009, and thats probably [...]

First,  this Ken Davidoff column about the swagger that comes from having three pitchers that are lights out, such as the Blue Jays and the Rays had this past season.  The Yankees want to own that feeling instead of heading into those teams ballparks knowing they weren’t going to have a chance to breath for the [...]

Author Lee Lowenfish sent me a note yesterday, with a couple of corrections to my previous posts. Lowenfish wrote The Art of Pitching with Tom Seaver and more recently the wonderful biography on Branch Rickey reviewed here by our own Hunter Manchak. Though a few were spelling errors that had occurred one was a big error [...]

Haven’t been a fan of Castillo since 2002, when I was at a Marlins game and watched him get picked off of second, because he just was wandering away towards first base?!?! That being said, this Joel Sherman piece about how Castillo has taken responsibility was amazing to find– and I have to give credit to [...]

So Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, presented an update on the state of the economy to the owners this week, according to a story by Michael S. Schmidt and Katie Thomas from the New York Times.  Though I think all the warnings that Bud Selig has been sending the owners has shot a dose [...]