With the collective bargaining agreement scheduled to expire on December 19th this year, we can expect to start hearing some restructuring proposals for the league. Everything from contraction to salary caps, arbitration to all-star games to the post season will be on the table, and in the end the ...

Continuing my series of columns devoted to making baseball stats more meaningful and useful to fans, I turn my attention to defense, the forgotten Chinese food of the statistical fridge. Or something like that.

It seems to me that in this day in age, defense can be accounted for pretty ...

Well, it’s been a wild off-season for the S3F, hasn’t it? Threats to move, changes at the top, feelings hurt, bridges mended, and anticipation for the new season. Why, it’s just like (insert team name), now that I think about it. It all leaves me feeling like the first article of the year is my version ...

How does the old saying go? Money talks and something something…

In any case, in the world of baseball, there is no doubt that money wins and GMs/managers spin. There’s no salary cap in baseball, we all know it, we know the effect, and we’ve all heard a certain something spewing forth ...

Runs are created by offensive production and this for the most part refers to what players do when they don’t get out. But to stop an investigation of offense there is to ignore what in my mind are a few of the great things about baseball:

1) just how many ways there are for a batter ...