It’s not the reason the Philadelphia Phillies lost tonight. The fact they managed just 2 runs in 16 innings was. On the other hand, the ejection of Ryan Howard by umpire Scott Barry following a bizarre mocking by Barry of Howard a few pitches before, in the 14th inning of a crucial MLB game in [...]

Right around the All-Star Break, we called up “Column To Be Named Later” to be a regular feature at BDD and so far it’s mainly been a way for this writer to bring attention to what he has felt has been some poor writing/analysis about today’s game. To be fair, today’s will be used to [...]

Don’t let Carson Cistulli fool you, when you become a manager in Major League Baseball, no matter how short your future is in that position, when you’re in, you’re in. So, to answer the question from Cistulli’s recent post at Mariner fanboy blog U.S.S. Mariner, “Heck yeah!”
While a few thousand words could be spent picking [...]

To borrow a line from Tommy Boy, I could get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass, but I’d rather take the butcher’s word for it. The same applies to bad baseball teams and Joe Posnanski who grew up in Cleveland and has written about the Kansas City [...]

We knew it wasn’t Z’s fault in Seattle hence Don Wakamatsu became the 6th manager to join the ranks of the unemployed this year. Here is a breakdown of who else was canned and how their replacements have done:

It’s likely the Mariners managerial change will be the last in-season move unless the Indians give up [...]

Earlier this week, Pat Andriola of FanGraphs took a shot at explaining the damage done when teams miss out on the concept of marginal utility. Like a Shaquille O’Neal free throw, Andriola’s example clanked off the rim.
To be fair to Andriola, he’s a Mets fan. After a 6-run 8th inning from a Phillies’ offense standing [...]

I’ve never been a big fan of Pythagorean W-L as a tool for any sort of analysis. There’s something of taking a cumulative statistic and applying it to game-by-game results for any sort of insight into a team’s ability or inability to achieve on the field.
Typically, I will discuss how 20 runs scored and 4 [...]

Last year, Sir David Cameron of FanGraphs, in his infinite wisdom (read: Overreactionary flair for the dramatic), wrote how the St. Louis Cardinals deserved a big “Huzzah!” for their persistence sticking with Skip Schumaker at second base. Now, almost two years through the great Skip Schumaker experiment, the question remains, was the Cardinals move a [...]

…and the Astros are paying most of the money in the deal. Drayton McLane/Ed Wade, you’re doing it wrong!
That’s Jason Collette’s recent comment to a Jack Moore piece at Fangraphs about the pending Berkman plus cash to the Yankees deal. And Collette’s an expert on teams that now how to “do it”… he’s a notable [...]

Keep it simple, stupid. One of my mentors used to live by the mantra.
Nowhere does the KISS principle apply more than evaluating Major League trades. Here’s how simple it is:
1.) Which GM is smarter?
2.) If GMs are relatively close in intelligence (read: both geniuses or both idiots), which organization is more Sabermetrically inclined?
The players involved [...]