Jason Brannon

Bruce Miles, mild-mannered Cub reporter, defends the quality start from its detractors: What's that, you say? Isn't a quality start six innings and three earned runs, for an ERA of 4.50?...

If you think about it, almost all the best people have manifestos. [Pause to let you nod in agreement.] Paul Lukas, ESPN's resident uniform authority, has one, too, and it's well worth your time: ...

I have a friend who believes basically every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike, even the ones that contradict the other ones. Turns out he has that in common with Steve Carlton: "The...

Len Kasper, the Cubs' play-by-play man, recently penned a column about what he would do if he were "commissioner for a day." He has a lot of great ideas, like adding a fifth umpire to each crew (to...

From the "Hey Bill" page at Bill James Online: Hey Bill, I've long thought this would be a fun if crazy way to play baseball: No fixed lineup; every turn through the "order" the manager is free...

A fun (by which I mean slightly horrifying) tidbit from a recent Will Leitch podcast: Leitch: I was actually down the field [of Busch Stadium] a couple years ago ... It was 2007, so the stadium...

Adapted from D.H. Lawrence and Late Night with David Letterman.

Seriously, do baseball fans really pay good money to see the best players not actually play?

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Lee Elia's poignant encomium to Cub Nation. Which reminded us of the second most famous manager diatribe ever caught on tape. Not as angry, nor quite so...

It was thirty years ago today that Lee Elia delivered his touching encomium to Cub fans. WARNING: THIS IS WILDLY UNSAFE FOR WORK UNLESS YOU WORK AROUND A BUNCH OF SAILORS. (H/T to The New...

Twitter fight! #Hashtag! i am not a hater of WAR stat, but if someone can explain to me how starling marte & bryce harper are both 1.7, please do — Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) April 29, 2013 ...

If they had (as we were deathly afraid they might), we'd all be deprived of this incredible image of Yu Darvish created by Lone Star Ball super-commenter Drew Sheppard. (H/T Dan McLaughlin, Dave...

Make up your minds, jerks.

The following is a list of players who paced the league in swinging on 3-0 counts during the years 2010-2012: 1 Albert Pujols 382 Andre Ethier 293 Billy Butler 284 Justin Upton 275...

Philip Bess, architect of Armour Field, is against a proposed Wrigley Field "Jumbotron," and for good reasons: Wrigley is unique in how the immediate cityscape is part of the ballpark...

A scouting report on a 17-year-old Derek Jeter: It seems to me the scout absolutely nailed the big picture stuff (e.g. "THIS GUY IS SPECIAL ... ALL-STAR POT[ENTIAL] AS SS AT ML LEVEL.") but was...

From a 2011 interview with Mike Schmidt: Are you more proud of your 10 Gold Gloves or your eight NL home run crowns? Schmidt: The latter. Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're...

Dallas Green as Theodoric of New York: Back in 1989, Yankees manager Dallas Green, in order to "stretch out" 23-year-old phenom Al Leiter, forced him to throw 163 pitches on a damp day at Yankee...

The great Joe Sheehan, on the adding of two more ex-players to MLB Network's roster of analysts: MLB Network now employs 17 former players, per their own press release, to present a viewpoint...

As you may have heard, we are currently enjoying the highest strikeout rates that mankind has ever known. Well, enjoying is probably the wrong word. Quietly tolerating, is more like it. It's a real...

First, a refresher, as if you needed it ... * * * TOOTBLAN (ˈto͞ot·blæn) noun1. Baseball a foolish play made by a baserunner which results in an out, especially Ryan Theriot 2. any...

If you knew nothing about baseball and tuned in to last Sunday's contest between the Rangers and Astros, you would have thought Michael Young had either died recently or was some kind of omnipotent...

If you like old-timey baseball, and you like websites, you may be the target audience for The National Pastime Museum, a new web venture that features some terrific writing from our own Rob Neyer,...

Longtime readers know that I have long advocated the total destruction of the world's fish/mollusk population, either by poisoning the oceans or employing our vast nuclear arsenal.* * That's...

One time I was writing this perfect blog post—it was witty, insightful, and totally on point. I was marshaling evidence like nobody's business! Then, at the very end, I wrote, "You know, Hitler...

Don't look now, loyal readers: Player Team WARChase Utley PHI 0.3Bryce Harper WAS 0.3Justin Maxwell HOU 0.3Gerardo Parra ARI 0.3Freddie Freeman ...

The AP dutifully reprints a press release reports on the latest offering from Louisville Slugger: The new bats — made of ash or maple — are designed to be harder than previous models. Bobby...

... but we'd rather choke on a gnat: Regalado On Marlins Park: "The Residents Of Miami Were Raped" MIAMI (CBS4) – With just two weeks until opening day, the Miami Marlins are making...

Thanks to alert Baseball Nation reader scotth23 for tipping us off to this Daily News story: Although Wells’ seven-year, $126 million contract has been looked at as an albatross for the...