Honest Wagner

Here's your brief history of Nelson Figueroa . He's a right-handed breaking-ball artist who has never had anything but a high-80s fa...

The Cards are coming off losing two of three in Cincinnati. Last night they were shut down by the mighty Aaron Harang. A strong game by Vog...

John Perrotto reviews the Kip situation . Perrotto reports that Kip is certain to get a large raise and should win $4M to $4.5M for next yea...

The Bucs put Mesa, as teams do with many veterans, on waivers. Joe Rutter reports the Bucs were talking with the Cubs who could use him. Bu...

Goal #1 should be 81 wins. I'm surprised that's not the first thing out of every player's mouth when asked about their goals fo...

I dunno what's up with Nashville, but it appears to be official , the Bucs are looking into changing their AAA affiliate.

It's time to find out. Recent numbers are encouraging: as Bob Dvorchak counts today in his notebook , the Bucs are 21-7 in their past 28...

It must be one of the best few seconds in all of sports.

What has gotten into Tony La Russa? His charge of "gamesmanship" is the focus of many reports today. La Russa basically accuse...

Remember, it's the first-base side that gets the afternoon shade . If you are going Saturday or Sunday and you want to sit in the shade,...

Baseball Prospectus's Nate Silver just realized that 75 wins is better than 74 wins is better than 73 wins. I've written about th...

I believe . Ha ha, the AP bet the Unit would beat him and published these photos . Hands down, Josh wins that beauty contest. Randy looks ...

Will Carroll has an interesting line in his latest installment of Under the Knife, his regular behind-the-scenes take on player injuries for...

John Perotto writes about some guy in the minors . Yawn. High-80s fastball? 20th-round pick? Sounds like Nelson Figueroa.

Check out Joshua Doak's letter (toward the bottom). I should start writing like that!

Paul Meyer delivers the dope on Brad Eldred . I can live with strikeouts when they come with productivity.

Bob Smizik hops in his time machine and sees some strange things eight years from now.

If we can't take this one tonight, it will be Ray Charles festival time.

I don't understand the arbitration process and look forward to seeing it unfold this off-season so I can get a better handle on it. Joe...

Richard Lederer has been reviewing the history of the Bill James abstracts on his weekend blog . I played thousands of games of Strat-O-Mati...