Joe Sheehan has an excellent (free) article on Baseball Prospectus today about Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in baseball. In particular, it is about the Mitchell Commission, which is supposed to dig into the past to investigate PED use. I agree with Joe, especially on these points:

"The Commission isn’t helping baseball. It’s only keeping a ( Read more... )

Baseball Prospectus is not what it was when I started reading it. It has moved away from pure statistical analysis and constant snarky comments. At the same time, the snark still gets put out there. This one (in todays Transaction Analysis by Christina Kahrl) just cracked me up.

"There are bad ideas, there are Sylvester Stallone-in-a-musical ( Read more... )