Honest Wagner

Well, that sucked. Try again tomorrow. P.S., dear Mac, please, try to never bring in Mesa with a four-plus lead. Throughout his career h...

Tie game, runners on first and second, no outs, bottom of the seventh. Benson in the stretch, Bobby Crosby batting. The Pirates can't be...

A good thing about being in Oakland is listening to Lanny and Steve talk about Billy Beane's whole get-on-base philosophy. Steve Blass ...

It's another good night for a surprise win from the Bucs. Whenever it seems like they'll never win another game, they win another ga...

Dayn Perry of Baseball Prospectus identifies Brad Eldred as a quality prospect today. (It's a pay article; if you have a subscription, y...

Lanny on KDKA remarked in the preseason that the Bucs dumped their advance scouts and signed up with Inside Edge for this year. I bring thi...

Their second boy was born yesterday. Wow. He's one big kid and he arrived in a hurry. Last I heard the names were narrowed down to Elro...

The A's have the best pitching and the best defense in the Beer and Whiskey league. I hope the A's put on a clinic. After last night...

They're talking more sense at Baseball Prospectus these days. It's not brave to predict Jack Wilson is unlikely to finish the sea...

So Meadows gets tagged with the loss in game one. There's some good news in the box score. It wasn't all negative. For example, Sim...

The Fallsman over at 'burghsportsguys has a review of some of the draft picks. Looks like he did some homework.

Here's that article on Brian Meadows we've been expecting to see one of these days. Rubber arm, thick skin, great performance. What...

From Joe Rutter's report in today's Trib: "I'm under the belief right now that with our young pitchers, the more rest they...

Steve Novotney has an article describing Josh Fogg's opinion of the steroids issue . Fogg is talking sense.

Baseball America ran a draft day blog that loads easily now (very slow early this week) with comments about different selections. There are...

I enjoy reading Dominican Players , a weblog devoted to following the game from Santo Domingo. The latest here looks at Danny Almonte who is...

A few days after writing that I almost never read Rob Neyer, I learned (from Primer ) that Neyer wrote an article about those comments we w...

Nuts. Doubleheader tomorrow. This time, it's Josh Fogg posing for the AP photographer in his boxer shorts.

Ed Eagle talked to Director of Scouting Ed Creech about the first day of the draft, and Creech summarized their selections with two words: p...

This tells us the average height of the Pirates is 6'0". Eyeballing the draft picks, they appear to be about 6'2" on aver...