I had the pleasure of taking in a few Grapefruit League games late last week, including two Phillies contests at wonderful Bright House Field. (Well, one and a third: we got soaked at Saturday's...

The Washington Nationals have released John Patterson.  Patterson has been limited by injury much of his career, but he's shown loads of talent when healthy.  He had a 9-7 record and 3.15 ERA in...

Kris Benson's long road back from injury took a detour today, as the veteran right-hander missed a scheduled start with an unspecified ailment he self-diagnosed as biceps tendinitis. Meanwhile,...

Just wanted to post an update to our league.  Changes a bunch of the settings around and I am going to post them here.  Any feedback would be great.  We have 13 teams (3 slots are open) and the...

Last year, I wrote an entry called "The Cruelest Month?"  As most Phillies fans would have been able to tell you without reading anything other than the title, it was about April and the Phillies'...

Watching the mlb.tv broadcast today. Adam Eaton looked fairly sharp, throwing three scoreless innings--yes, you read that right--to start the game. Eaton allowed five hits, but two or three of them...

The more I think about this rotation kerfuffle the Phillies once again find themselves in, the more confused I get. I don't think I'm alone: at this point, choosing between Travis Blackley, the...

It's about time we "sponsored" a league.  We are mostly calc-nerds here, so, it should be fun and chellenging.  Most teams die off towards the middle, but hopefully it won't since I'll post...

Hot on the heels of Bill Conlin's latest statement of the obvious--that Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins are the greatest Phillies ever at their respective positions--comes this series of...

This isn't a big deal, I just thought it was funny. From a phillies.com story on Kris Benson: Since being selected as the No. 1 overall pick by the Pirates in the 1996 First-Year Player Draft, the...