By now “Yes we can!” is so played out that even using it to introduce the President’s favorite baseball team is lame. It’s difficult to keep a White Sox intro short, though. There’s the obligatory mention of Ozzie Guillen’s Twitter, the South Side, and, for the nostalgic, throw in a Black Sox reference, too. Were [...]

With the news of Joe Nathan’s elbow and Angel Guzman’s shoulder coming down the pike during this past week, Jason Frasor has become a very popular name in trade rumors. I bet most of you are asking the same question: “Who is Jason Frasor?”
Without getting too existential (Who are we, really?), I will tell you [...]

There are quite a few Asian stories for the upcoming season—a topic for an upcoming column—but many of them focus on the fate of Japanese pitchers in 2010. Some of those questions were answered with the opening of Spring Training, and I’ll run down a few of them here.
Daisuke Matsuzaka lost most of last season [...]

A flight from Cleveland to Arizona can be tough on the internal clock so we’ll blame the jet lag for the 11th hour posting of Michael Street’s Diamondbacks preview. The BDD editing room is on the East Coast so for all of you out West, this one came in prime time. As for Arizona, they [...]

Elvis Andrus was a rookie in 2009, and hence is available in most Strat-O-Matic league drafts this off-season. He usually is not one of the first two players taken, though he should be.

This is an article specific to Strat-O-Matic, specifically the role of defense. Others who are interested in the value of defense may find [...]

All too often, “Asian baseball player” translates as “Japanese baseball player,” even in my mind. But there’s plenty of talent from other Asian countries, and Chan Ho Park and Chien-Ming Wang are excellent representatives of South Korea and Taiwan, respectively. In fact, until Fu-te Ni comes into his own as a reliever (and pitches for [...]

Michael Street has been bringing some great content to BDD in his time here. It’s no wonder he’s caught on at Heater and The Hardball Times thanks to his solid work at Baseball Daily Digest. Our latest featured writer gives his responses to 20 Questions…
How did you begin writing for Baseball Daily Digest?
I answered Joe’s [...]

With pitchers and catcher showing up this past week and position players getting ready for their grand entrance, all kinds of stories are coming out of clubhouses in Arizona and Florida. Most of them have to do about players arriving in the best shape of their lives, with lasik eye surgery and a new found [...]

Zach Sanders adds to the perception that if you like the numbers side of baseball and write about baseball mostly on the Internet, you must be a Mariners fan. (Did they have Laptop Day at the old Kingdome or something?)  You can find @zvsanders all over the ‘net, too: here, FanGraphs and MLB Notebook all [...]

One of the most consistent fixtures at Baseball Daily Digest is the writing of Rob McQuown. Rob not only regularly treats BDD readers to some great insight and analysis, he also regularly served up “Roto Lunch” in ‘09 for BDD’s fantasy readers. There’s a good chance you caught Rob on a good day if you [...]