Honest Wagner

VanBenschoten beat the Yankees today , going three (Burnett pitched the fourth and fifth) against a Yankees team that threw these guys at hi...

Neck and neck and neck and neck. That's how McClendon describes the competition for the fifth starter job between Reed, Vogelsong, VanBe...

my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no...

There's a poll up at the Trib-Review site. I laugh to see "85 wins or more" as the most optimistic option, and only 11% choos...

From Dave Pinto , we see that Mariners Wheelhouse has a series of interesting posts, from the Seattle point of view, on Ken Rosenthal's...

From today's PG : Plans are progressing to have a ring ceremony soon for the minor-league clubs that won championships last year. All s...

From Monday's Team Health Report at Baseball Prospectus : But as much as I root for this franchise to turn it around, I've yet to se...

One more post on Emeigh's pre-season essay at Baseball Primer . Emeigh argues: There's no obvious reason why Jason Bay should be...

Here's another line from Emeigh that I take issue with: the Pirates have become focused on maintaining the illusion of competitiveness ...

Mike Emeigh wrote a solid preseason evaluation essay for Baseball Primer. If I have the time and the stomach for it, I'll go over the r...

Ted Nye has the consensus rankings. Older browsers might not be able to load that nutty xml. (Thanks to Sean Forman at Primer for calling ...

Words fail me. Take this guy behind the wall and beat him with a barrel stave.

Raul Mondesi will like being a Pirate if Mac can bring back that family feeling in the clubhouse. Mondesi had a good point when Carlos Tosca...