Of all the disappointments on this year’s Los Angeles Angels, Hideki Matsui’s rough start had to be up there. It’s not quite the same as losing your first baseman for the season to a postgame celebratory Hokey Pokey, but it’s still a bummer when your biggest offensive free-agent signing is hitting .249/.329/.393 [...]

Baseball’s latest scandal, the release of financial documents for a variety of Major League teams, could not have come at a worse time for the Florida Marlins.
Already having engaged in a prolonged battle with Miami-Dade County over who should pay for their new stadium that is scheduled to open in 2012, the released documents show [...]

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 [...]

Last week, I looked at the pitching talent among Asian-American MLB players, to find only one real standout. But unlike their Asian-born counterparts, Asian-Americans are better represented in the field, and include two of the top players at their positions.

1. Shane Victorino isn’t someone usually associated with Asian-American talent, despite the [...]

The pitching motion is temperamental. Throwing a baseball is physically similar to swinging a golf club, particularly when it comes to timing and sequencing of movement, and anyone who swings the wrenches knows how difficult it can be to find consistency. The slightest mechanical tweak can throw a pitcher’s delivery completely out of whack.
I submit [...]

Despite Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Rays, on the 2010 season the Oakland Athletics are sporting an impressive 29-13 record during day games this year.  Even with the loss their day game winning percentage of .695 is an astounding 295 percentage points higher than their night game winning percentage on the year (32-49, .395).
During a [...]

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 [...]

My column focuses on the exploits of Asian-born major leaguers, but I’m often reminded of the success of Asian-American players, who are just as rare as their foreign-born teammates—but often just as talented. And with the awful year that many Asian players are having, it seems a good time to take a look at MLB’s [...]

Ever since the (non)retirement of Barry Bonds following the 2007 season the easy storyline on the San Francisco Giants has been that they are an all pitch/no hit kind of team.  Despite marked improvement from their offense since 2008 (the team finished last in the league in runs in 2008, 13th in 2009 and is [...]