We all know Murray Chass may be insane. But sometimes I just can't resist. Mike Piazza: His Bat and His Back By Murray Chass March 4, 2009 Baseball writers spend a lot of time in press boxes together, and the close and frequent proximity does not always foster positive relationships. For example...

Maybe the Dodgers will eventually sign Manny Ramirez on his terms (whatever those are). Maybe the Giants or some other team will swoop in and sign him. But it's hard to imagine Ramirez receiving any more than the $45 million, two-year deal he rejected this week, and if that's all he gets, co...

Every so often, you'll read some jackass who has gone through Baseball-Reference, snarkily disproving an old-timer's fond remembrance of an event that probably didn't happen the way he told it. I love those guys. Now it's my turn! Except the old-timer in question is Takashi Saito, wh...

David Ortiz has always spoken with a refreshing candor* about the steroid issue -- including about his own use or non-use, as you might remember: "I tell you, I don't know too much about steroids, but I started listening about steroids when they started to bring that [expletive] up, and I s...

A little while ago, we parsed the Keith Law/ESPN.com Top 100 prospects list. Now here comes Kevin Goldstein with the Baseball Prospectus list. In case you'd forgotten, here's what Law said were the Sox/Yankee prospects in the Top 100: 7: Lars Anderson 46: Austin Jackson 52: Michael Bowden 81...

This installment will give the Yankees the same treatment I gave the Red Sox, back before The Story. Installment 3, sometime before April, will finally do some head-to-head comparisons. ZiPS hasn't posted the Yankee projections yet, so we'll go with CHONE, which was determined to be the most...

Finally, PECOTA projections for 2009 are out. They join a whopping five other projection systems jockeying for assessing how well every player in MLB will do next season. Fantasy baseballers love this stuff, but I suck at fantasy baseball; I'm just curious for a semiscientific way of guessing at...

Dan Szymborski at Baseball Think Factory has been alphabetically listing the team-by-team 2009 ZiPS projections. Today is the Red Sox' day, and while nothing looks terribly shocking on the offensive side (Ortiz and Bay as the Sox' two top power hitters, regression from Youk and Pedroia, dece...

Keith Law yesterday opened the Prospectalooza that is the numerous Top 100 prospects lists we see around this time every year. The big surprise (at least to me) is that power 1B Lars Anderson is the No. 7 prospect in all of baseball. I've heard lots of good things about him, but No. 7?? La...

The Red Sox, as we all know, have taken their penchant for throwing the proverbial poop against the wall to new heights this year, combining it with their penchant for signing injury-risk players to low-cost deals. They've signed five players coming off injury with an impressive level past...