The Pastime

OK, that title doesn’t really make sense, but I liked the alliteration.
I just wanted to point some people toward Joe Posnanski’s latest two columns on baseball over at the Kansas City Star. It’s funny how the city with one of the worst MLB franchises is home to the best baseball writer today.
I’m not exagerrating, either. […]

Before the season, I previewed the A’s pitchers for Beyond the Boxscore. I thought now would be a good time to look back and see how I did, at the midpoint of the season. Here are some snippets of what I had to say, and how I close I think I came to how they’re […]

As anyone who’s read this site more often than once or twice in the past can tell you, I’m a fan of Dan Johnson. He not only plays for my favorite team, the A’s, but he also played at the University of Nebraska, which I attend and have been a fan of since I was […]

As some may know, Orlando Cabrera is in the throes of a 61 game On Base streak. That is to say, he’s gotten on base at least once in each of the last 61 games, either by a hit, walk, or hit by pitch.
Here’s his sparkline for the season, in terms of number of times […]