Saturday marked the 90th anniversary of Babe Ruth being traded to the Yankees.  Mark Newman writes a nice piece about how that trade changed the history the Yankees for the better.  Remember, before Ruth, the Yankees were a laughingstock. Ruth set them on their way to being the most storied franchise in baseball history.
Anthony DiComo [...]

Hall-of-Famer Tracey Ringolsby writes the most complete overview of the National League Hot Stove.  The gist?  Don’t look for the Astros to be any better.  The Brewers are fighting hard to fill holes, as are the Giants.  Several teams are waiting on a player of players to make up their minds before they move on [...]

Next year I have to remember to do a Hanukah week of posts, but time slipped right by me this year.  Today though is Christmas, and as we learned earlier this week, Rickey Henderson’s birthday.
I just want to take some time this Christmas morning to thank my readers from this past year.  As the traffic [...]

OK, this piece isn’t really about Money ball, just about the A’s.  But, isn’t in interesting that the team that is most closely associated with the term “money ball” and veered away from non-productive outs, such as the failed stolen base, now seems to be building a team that can steal bases?
Since the steroid era [...]

OK… it just has to stop. Mets fans must stop reading the Daily News.  This feud has gone on long enough.  I know the Mets were lousy last year.  Yeah, and so were about half a dozen other teams.  I know they spent considerably more than those other teams, but that was for the same [...]

So a ton is being written about how great it is that Javier Vasquez has returned for the Yankees, but not as much has been written, at least on a national scale about what the Braves are getting.  The Braves really wanted to get rid of Derek Lowe, whom they signed just last year to [...]