I love Duaner Sanchez. I'll vote for Pedro anytime he wants to run for anything. And this article by Ben Shpigel is enormously hopeful, though “enormously hopeful” is the norm for February stories about injured pitchers.
(Seriously. When's the last time you read a spring-training story in which the pitcher said, “I'm way behind schedule, instead […]

The heat downstairs in our apartment hasn't worked for 10 days or so. The plumber came tonight, struggled to get the heat working, and finally determined various valves and a length of ancient piping need replacing. That'll be $500, Mr. Fry.
Of course the 10 days the heat hasn't worked have corresponded to the coldest days […]

Don’t know if it’s still conventional wisdom in baseball circles to define a player’s prime as more or less the ages of 28-32. Since conventional wisdom never dies, probably. But if that’s the prime — when you’re old enough to know better and young enough to successfully implement what you know — we lack prime […]

He saw his best days with the Dodgers, but those were long over.
He was available when few other pitchers were.
He pitched for a different team every year of late.
He allowed an ERA well above his career best.
He hovered around .500 the year before we got him.
He signed with a contender that was just short enough […]

There’s throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if something sticks. Then there’s throwing spaghetti sauce at the wall, which just makes a mess.

Supposedly we’re signing Chan Ho Park.

Chan Ho Park? Really? The epitome of “bad free-agent pitcher signing”? (Hey, before he got hurt, Mike Hampton just looked really expensive.) The signed-sealed-delivered proof that Tom […]

In one of the scoops of the winter, Ben Shpigel noted in the Times last week that the Mets want to sell a lot of tickets in 2007. I also hear they’d like to win as many games as possible.

To be fair (even if it’s not as much fun), Shpigel’s angle was the Mets’ push […]