Gotta admit, our 4-3 defense looks good thus far.

Ehh... Hay guys. So am I the loser that didn't get invited back to an RR league this year or are we still going to do that or what? I can start one if the normal "commissioners" aren't into it this year.

This makes sense on so many levels.

The Grey Lady reports that wCONF is off the charts this spring.

It's another one of those things. It is just over there, not over here.

Interesting piece on how the Angels plan to rebuild their farm system. "The system still lacks high draft picks, still suffers from underinvestment in Latin America, still requires three, five, maybe seven years to assess." but "When Jerry Dipoto took over as GM, he said, 'The analytics department is [now] baseball ops.' Sabermetrics, in other words, would be part of everything the front office did -- including player development."

Is this a Boner replacement or Dayton just tinkering around? There still isn't really a legitimate backup SS on the roster unless Ciriaco counts.

Looks like the stuff about Darwin Barney could really have been legit. I can't believe Dayton couldn't get that trade done.

"Strikingly, we find recent performance is highly significant in predicting performance in all ten statistical categories that we examine. In all cases, being "hot" in a statistic makes one more likely to perform well in the same statistic. A recent history on the order of about 25 at bats, which equals about 5 games or close to one week for the average hitter, has the most predictive power over the next at bat. Furthermore these effects are of a significant magnitude: for instance, a 30 percent increase in the number of times that a batter has gotten on base in the last 25 at bats predicts a 5% increase in the likelihood of getting on base in the next at bat, after controlling for all other explanatory variables."