After much anticipation and salivation, Major League Baseball has begun trickling out tidbits from its revolutionary and proprietary STATCAST system, which tracks in real time the flight of baseballs off players’ bats, and routes defenders… Read more »
Staff writers Nick Strangis and Tyler Baber join host Ryan Sullivan to talk Up & In and Sonoma Stompers.
Welcome to Banished to the Pen’s preview of the 2015 season for The Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs. Yesterday, we posted the preview for the Sonoma Stompers. Now entering its third season of play,… Read more »
Monday night marks the season opener for the Sonoma Stompers independent team, and we here at BttP are pretty excited – if not stoked – to see how things unfold this summer. In the meantime,… Read more »
Welcome to Banished to the Pen’s preview of the 2015 season for The Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs. Now entering its third season of play, the Pacific Association appears to have moved its way… Read more »
The title of this article pretty much sums up what we’re going to be looking at. I took the top ten qualified starters in K% from 2014 and 2015, and looked at any significant changes… Read more »
Thanks for visiting Banished to the Pen. For those of you new to the site, we hope you enjoy checking out what we have to offer — ranging from heavy-duty statistical analysis to lighter offbeat features…. Read more »
In this installment of “In-Season Scouting”, my amateurish attempt to evaluate players during the season, we will take a peek at Angels pitcher Matt Shoemaker. After a half cup of coffee in 2013, Shoemaker came up… Read more »
In my last post I provided a brief introduction to the concept of creative destruction and how teams and players should consider embracing the principles behind it. The plan for this post is to dig… Read more »
Now you can add Bud Selig alongside Princess Leia and Michael Jackson on the list of famous holograms, thank to the “virtual Bud,” which will surely be just one highlight among many at the new “Bud Selig Experience” in Milwaukee.
What’s wrong with Clayton Kershaw? It’s a question I’ve started to hear recently. At one level, you can understand why people are asking it. Kershaw is currently 2-3 on the season with a 4.32 ERA…. Read more »
While watching the Angels and Blue Jays game the other day, Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez mentioned that C.J. Wilson had expressed to him before the game that he had re-invented himself six times during… Read more »
At this point we’re less than a month away from the June 8th, 2015 Major League Draft. Which essentially means we’re in draft season. A lot of mock drafts are coming out, and most fans… Read more »
On this edition of Mop-Up Duty: It’s Star Wars. Brandon Lee, Ken Maeda, and Mike Carlucci hold a 5-round “space fantasy mock draft” of their favorite Star Wars things, reminiscing, learning fun facts, and looking to the future of the franchise. Recommended only to those with excessive levels of geekness.
Summertime is back, and so is the weekly roundup of Banished to the Pen highlights.
Let’s go ahead and start with the backstory behind this post. In a game between the Yankees and Nationals on Wednesday, May 20th, Bryce Harper was at bat. A breaking pitch came in at the… Read more »
Hi, everyone! And welcome to Write-Up For Yesterday, BttP’s guide to what the heck happened yesterday in baseball. We’re not gonna just hand you some scores here, because we trust you know how to type… Read more »
Kevin: We’re just going to do this the way we want to do it. We hope you like it. We certainly want everybody’s feedback and want to make people happy. Jason: Not really. –Up &… Read more »
Bartolo Colon nearly destroys the internet, Wash returns to save the A’s, and Alex Gordon teaches his son about running into walls. Another normal day in baseball covered in our recap.
Everyone’s favorite gap-toothed funnyman, David Letterman, has presented many baseball-related Top Ten Lists during his influential and inventive 33-year run in late night.
Around a month ago I wrote an article entitled “Tommy John Surgery and Throwing 95+ MPH”. Basically what I was trying to find out was, are pitchers who throw harder more likely to have Tommy… Read more »
We’re honoring another retiree today. Veteran shortstop and three-time All-Star, Rafael Furcal, signed off yesterday. He spent most of his 14-year career with the Braves and Dodgers but I’ll remember him most as the shortstop and popular clubhouse guy for the Cardinals’ 2011 World Series team.
(with apologies to Ogden Nash) Hi, everyone! And welcome to Write-Up For Yesterday, BttP’s guide to what the heck happened yesterday in baseball. We’re not gonna just hand you some scores here, because we trust… Read more »
The Marlins announced yesterday that GM Dan Jennings would take over as manager, marking the first time in recent history that an executive with as much power as he had would move down to the… Read more »
I won’t spoil anything about the final episode of Mad Men for readers who have yet to watch it, but I will say I’m a little upset we’ll never find out what happened to Lane’s Mets… Read more »
Mike Ferrin, formerly of Fringe Average and currently of MLB Network Radio, joins Ryan Sullivan to talk about the legacy of the Up and In podcast, and weighs in on the Mets, Yankees. Nationals, and Orioles.
I want you to close your eyes for a moment. Imagine that you live in an alternate universe where the balls used in sports are conscious beings. These beings, all of a sudden, have a… Read more »
(with apologies to Ogden Nash) Hi, everyone! And welcome to Write-Up For Yesterday, BttP’s guide to what the heck happened yesterday in baseball. We’re not gonna just hand you some scores here, because we trust… Read more »
(with apologies to Ogden Nash) Hi, everyone! And welcome to Write-Up For Yesterday, BttP’s guide to what the heck happened yesterday in baseball. We’re not gonna just hand you some scores here, because we trust… Read more »
Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium. Some other stuff happened, but mostly that on repeat. Check it out in our recap.
