The Associated Press is reporting that “Willie Randolph finally got…”
Hmmm.
{voros goes through pockets looking for change}
Do you guys take Canadian money? Ummm…
Well anyway something important happened with Wille Randolph's managerial status today.
One of the common themes you'll see the next couple of days are folks talking about the “spark” teams tend to get when they [...]

Dave Hollander seems to think that Cliff Floyd is Mr. Magic when it comes to baseball: “wherever Cliff Floyd goes, his teams win.” Now, kudos for him for trying to mount evidence for this as he reels of a string of facts that I suppose were supposed to be convincing: EG, “George W. Bush was [...]

A one. A two. A three.                                                                                              
Take me off of the ballot,                                                                                     Keep me out of the Hall;                                                                                            To some, enshrinement is greater than gold,                                                                  I don't care cause I'm too freakin' old.                                                                              So it's screw, screw, screw the committee,                                                                      I hope they drop [...]

Sorry for the long layoff but I've been badly under the weather (and still am), so that might explain why the following will seem a bit cranky. From BTF:
“And we do statistical analysis a disservice when we insist that certain outcomes for which we haven't been able to identify a particular cause are by definition [...]

Most of you know by now about the dustup on Bob Costas' little roundtable thingy on HBO a couple of nights ago. Buzz Bissinger of Friday Night Lights fame launched into a tirade against Will Leitch of Deadspin, and now folks are hashing out the implications.
I've actually been a little bit in Leitch's position once [...]

I'm happy to see that it looks like Frank Thomas has had a soft landing after being released by the Blue Jays. The Oakland A's have signed the Big Hurt presumably to a league minimum deal (unless a team offered more money than the Blue Jays contract, the amount of money Thomas makes is the [...]

As you probably already know, the Rays machinations involving Longoria's service time clock were made irrelevant this week when they inked the consensus league #1 prospect to a long term contract for six years (with three team option years tacked on to the end). The minimum outlay for the Rays on the deal is $17.5 [...]

Way back in the day, April was the time of year that really bugged me when folks used, abused and misused baseball statistics. And so I sort of decided to come up with something that eventually was called “Voros' Law.” It was a jokey thing not like a real scientific law sort of thing, but [...]

It appears a bit of a feud has sprung up between Richard Justice and a personal favorite of mine, Mickey Lichtman. Full disclosure: a while back (before I was hired by the Red Sox) when Mickey and Tommy Tango were kicking around the idea of a book, they asked me if I wanted to join. [...]

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Question 1: BP's PECOTA system has projected the Yankees to win 97 games without any moves. And it's projected Boston to win 90.  Yet, most people believe the Red [...]