Baseball Analysis

The Giants have received better than even expected production from their starting pitching, as well as their lineup, but are both sustainable? Read more »

Looking at the Wins Above Replacement leaderboard sees names like Vernon Wells, Austin Jackson, Colby Rasmus and Andrew McCutcheon. Will they still be around at the end of the season? Read more »

The Phillies have huge payroll commitments to other players, plus potential replacement Domonic Brown, but shifting Jayson Werth to center and trading Shane Victorino might be the better action plan. Read more »

Behind a pitching staff that has given up just 66 earned runs in over 231 innings, the Cardinals are ranked first in Opsera. Read more »

While San Diego has relied on their pitching staff to anchor their fast start, their offense has performed better than expected due to the breakout of a couple prospects. Read more »

Ryan Howard will make $25 million annually throughout the majority of his 30s thanks to a contract from Philadelphia that already seems bloated. Read more »

While the Giants offense does appear to be better than last season, the long term outlook for 2010 doesn?t seem to be all that encouraging. Read more »

With 20 games already in the books, the Angels are stuck around the .500 mark trying to find a sense of consistency. Read more »

After the third week of play, we have our third different leader in Opsera, with the Giants joining the Yankees in Week 2 and Phillies in Week 1. Read more »

The Rays bought out the prime of Ben Zobrist with a five-year contract extension. The versatile switch-hitter was second in all of baseball in WAR in 2009. Read more »

Shin-Soo Choo, Hunter Pence, Chase Utley, Mark Teixeira, Carlos Lee and Ivan Rodriguez are all having notable starts to the 2010 season. Read more »

Matt Garza, Jon Lester, Roy Halladay, Jake Peavy and even Livan Hernandez have had interesting numbers in their initial handful of 2010 starts. Read more »

The Yankees are atop the second rankings of 2010, ahead of the Giants, Cardinals, Phillies and Twins. Read more »

Mark Teixeira has a history of slow starts, but his numbers this season are the worst of his career. Read more »

Brett Anderson has yet to give up a run in 12 innings during the 2010 season. He is a 22-year-old southpaw with a low to mid-90s fastball and a great slider that are good enough to put him in the conversation with the likes of Lincecum, Felix and Greinke. Read more »

This is the time of the MLB season in which the common chorus is that we must fear the small sample size. How did the current top-25 hitters fare in 2009? Read more »

After the first week of 2010 MLB action, two teams that made a blockbuster offseason trade, the Phillies and Blue Jays, are ranked first and second respectively. Also in the top-five are division leaders in Detroit, San Francisco and Oakland. Read more »

Forbes has released their list of all 30 MLB team's operating income from 2009 and there were just two teams that lost, with 28 teams earning a profit. Read more »

Which pitcher is best equipped to retire Albert Pujols? It is Wandy Rodriguez, who can offset a fastball with a much slower curve. Unfortunately, they won't meet until the beginning of May and baseball's best player may have 62 homers by then if he continues his current pace. Read more »

The Rangers should be competitive again and also better offensively with a healthy Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero, but their pitching staff is probably one season away. Read more »