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Andre Dawson stopped hitting home runs and throwing out base runners in 1996, which doesn’t explain how he has managed to become a better baseball player over the last nine years.
This past year alone was a major source of improvement for Dawson, who did not need a single at-bat to change the minds of 59 Hall [...]

After 22 seasons and 4,875 strikeouts, Randy Johnson announced today that he would be retiring from baseball.
The Big Unit played for 6 different teams, amassing 303 wins, 5 Cy Young awards, 10 All-Star appearances and 1 World Series.  One of the most dominant pitchers in recent memory Johnson said on Tuesday “I just feel like [...]

Will you be making any roster additions this offseason? You can’t re-sign players (John Lackey, Chone Figgins). You can’t trade for players (Roy Halladay). And you can’t sign players (Adrian Beltre). Sure, manager Mike Scioscia is good for about five wins a year — assuming you give him nine names to put on a lineup card — but [...]

10. Hit by the Moneyball
Michael Lewis titled his 2003 book about the Oakland Athletics’ front office “Moneyball,” and soon enough that term was as much a part of baseball jargon as “Can of Corn” or “High Cheese.”  Moneyball is a revolutionary statistical analysis of players based on Sabermetrics fashioned by the Athletics and widely copied [...]

Did you watch the 2009 MLB postseason? Obviously not. Here is what you — the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies — missed: Cliff Lee, the pitcher you were praised for acquiring cheaply at the July 31 deadline, went 4-0 with 1.56 ERA during the playoffs and was responsible for both your wins in the [...]