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Hardball Times Monthly Archives


April, 2010

Friday, April 30

THT Live: Player weather report

by Dave Studeman

Cooperstown Confidential: Bob Locker talks Marvin Miller

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Thursday, April 29

THT Live: Is the win a useless statistic?

by Pat Andriola

THT Live: BABIP leaders and trailers so far

by Pat Andriola

THT Live: The hottest hitter in baseball

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: And that went up and down

by Dave Studeman

The latest thoughts on the best prospects in baseball

by Matt Hagen

College catcher defense

by Jeff Sackmann

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

This annotated week in baseball history: April 25-May 1, 1983

by Richard Barbieri

TUCK! sez: Stick a fork in him

by Tuck

Wednesday, April 28

THT Live: Dodgers GM goes after Matt Kemp…but why?

by Joshua Fisher

Capacity building 101: so, tell me more about this database

by Derek Ambrosino

Roster Doctor

by Jonathan Halket

BOB:  Florida Stadium News

by Brian Borawski

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

THT Live: Visual Baseball:  Introducing the Score Tracker

by Kevin Dame

Tuesday, April 27

THT Live: A couple of Howardian thoughts

by Dave Studeman

THT Live: The Timing of the Ryan Howard Contract Extension

by Josh Levitt

The Ryan Howard deal: examining a baby albatross

by Joshua Fisher

THT Awards

by John Barten

In and out of line for playing time

by Paul Singman

High on: Mike Leake

by Derek Carty

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Luis Atilano’s paths

by Harry Pavlidis

Monday, April 26

THT Live: Introducing THT Links

by Dave Studeman

TUCK! sez: Not quite The Right Stuff

by Tuck

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Talking baseball with Fred Stein (Volume 2)

by Steve Treder

Friday, April 23

THT Live: Visual Baseball:  Ranking the AL EAST Starting Rotations

by Kevin Dame

THT Live: Errors in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette headline and article

by Chris Jaffe

Roster Doctor is back

by David Gassko

Waiver Wire: NL, Week 3

by Josh Shepardson

Card Corner: The Amazing Emu

by Bruce Markusen

Platoon splits 2.0

by Max Marchi

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Twisting Oliver: Mirage or oasis

by Jeremiah Oshan

Thursday, April 22

THT Live: Z to the pen

by Nick Steiner

THT Live: Bryce Harper’s makeup

by Pat Andriola

THT Live: THT Forecasts Updated

by David Gassko

Across the (defensive) universe

by Jeff Sackmann

Thoughts and projections on a third tier of pitching prospects

by Matt Hagen

This annotated week in baseball history: April 18-April 24, 2010

by Richard Barbieri

TUCK! sez: That’s a lot of cabbage

by Tuck

Playing the closer game

by Jonathan Halket

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Wednesday, April 21

THT Live: MLB draft Q&A

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: Out With the Old UZR, in With the New

by JT Jordan

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Rookies in the rotation

by Harry Pavlidis

Two weeks

by Geoff Young

BOB:  Rays’ Stadium Update and Pricey All Star Game Tickets

by Brian Borawski

Tuesday, April 20

THT Live: “I was gonna lay down the bunt, but then I got high”

by Nick Steiner

Target Field impressions

by Joshua Fisher

Most debates really boil down to semantics

by Derek Ambrosino

THT Awards

by John Barten

THT Live: And THat Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Beats, brags, and variance

by Paul Singman

THT Live: Does the stretch cost a pitcher fastball speed?

by Mike Fast

Monday, April 19

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Patience is a virtue (even on a 3-2 count)

by Craig Glaser

Friday, April 16

THT Live: Friday night Leake

by Harry Pavlidis

Waiver Wire Week 2: AL

by Tommy Rancel

NL Waiver Wire: Week 2

by Josh Shepardson

The nickname game: second base

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Intuition vs. Quants

by Derek Carty

Twisting Oliver: Gettin’ while the gettin’s good

by Jeremiah Oshan

Thursday, April 15

THT Live: Hello there, Francisco Liriano

by Joshua Fisher

THT Live: Visual Baseball:  Word Tree of David Ortiz’ struggles

by Kevin Dame

2010 thoughts and projections: The second tier of pitching prospects

by Matt Hagen

Prospect prizefights

by Jeff Sackmann

TUCK! sez: Ow

by Tuck

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Wednesday, April 14

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Punt your way to the front?

by Derek Ambrosino

A PitchSight To See

by Richard Barbieri

Tuesday, April 13

THT Live: From Twitter: UZR and Plus/Minus

by Mike Fast

THT Awards

by John Barten

New major league ballparks

by Joshua Fisher

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

The Young family

by Paul Singman

THT Live: Red Sox-Yankees slow games

by Mike Fast

Monday, April 12

THT Live: 2010 Atlantic League: Names you might know

by Josh Levitt

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Scioscia and Gardenhire . . . so far

by Chris Jaffe

Nuts and Bolts of hitting in the big leagues with Morgan Ensberg

by Matt Lentzner

Sunday, April 11

THT Live: A Quick Comparison of UZR and Plus/Minus

by JT Jordan

Friday, April 09

THT Live: Mathis vs. Napoli

by David Golebiewski

Rider, slurve and… Titanic

by Max Marchi

Book review: The Imperfect Diamond

by Alec Rogers

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Card Corner: Bernie Carbo

by Bruce Markusen

Waiver Wire Week 1: AL

by Tommy Rancel

Waiver Wire: NL

by Josh Shepardson

Twisting Oliver: The best of the rest

by Jeremiah Oshan

Thursday, April 08

THT Live: Jim Pagliaroni

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: The Praise of Folly

by JT Jordan

The path to Cooperstown through the hot corner

by Dan McLaughlin

Baseball’s top 15 pitching prospects: 2010 outlooks and future stat projections

by Matt Hagen

This annotated week in baseball history: April 4-April 10, 1966

by Richard Barbieri

TUCK! sez: Pucker up

by Tuck

Playing for time

by Jonathan Halket

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Wednesday, April 07

THT Live: How will Josh Beckett’s Contract Extension Affect Cliff Lee?

by Josh Levitt

THT Live: Getting to know….. David Wright, NY Mets superstar 3rd baseman

by Ephraim Fischbein

THT Live: Gameday-PITCHf/x changes for 2010

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Six questions for Morgan Ensberg

by Pat Andriola

Keeping things in perspective

by Derek Ambrosino

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

OK, Baseball

by Geoff Young

Beyond Batting Average: A Review

by David Gassko

The Compassionate Umpire

by John Walsh

Tuesday, April 06

THT Live: Communication?

by Mike Fast

Extension talks around the game

by Joshua Fisher

Check-up: 2009 Rule 5 picks

by Harry Pavlidis

Talking baseball with Fred Stein

by Steve Treder

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

It’s never too early to change

by Paul Singman

Monday, April 05

THT Live: Play of the year

by Dan Novick

THT Live: Unhittable

by Jeremy Greenhouse

THT Live: Leake to start in majors

by Alex Pedicini

THT Live: And That Happened

by Craig Calcaterra

Evaluating Mike Scioscia and Terry Francona

by Chris Jaffe

So how did the 1938 AL pitch Hank Greenberg?

by George Szabo

Lose a tick, gain a tick

by Mike Fast

THT Live: Visual Baseball:  Paintomatic for relievers

by Kevin Dame

THT Live: Data analysis - the SQL

by Mike Fast

Saturday, April 03

THT Live: Remembering Mike Cuellar—RIP, Crazy Horse

by Bruce Markusen

THT Live: THT Forecasts, now with saves and wins projections

by David Gassko

THT Live: Does this happen often?

by Brandon Isleib

Friday, April 02

THT Live: Bill Simmons on Sabermetrics

by Jeremy Greenhouse

THT Live: Scott Feldman adds cutter, cashes in

by David Golebiewski

Five questions: New York Mets

by Jonathan Halket

Five questions: Atlanta Braves

by John Beamer

Cooperstown Confidential: A survey of spring training

by Bruce Markusen

Mano a mano

by Jeff Sackmann

Twisting Oliver: Identifying potentially undervalued pitchers

by Jeremiah Oshan

Waiver Wire Offseason: AL

by Rob McQuown

Waiver Wire Offseason: NL

by Michael Street

Thursday, April 01

Baseball’s top catching prospects: 2010 outlooks and future stat projections

by Matt Hagen

Five questions: New York Yankees

by Dan Turkenkopf

Five questions: Boston Red Sox

by Alex Pedicini

This annotated week in baseball history: March 28-April 3, 1989

by Richard Barbieri

TUCK! sez: Hey, it worked out for the Giants ... wait. Never mind.

by Tuck

Speaking auction

by Paul Singman

THT Live: Links (not a prank)

by Dan Novick

Common players on my 2010 fantasy teams

by Derek Carty

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