Horacio Ramirez

The season's on the line. Every game counts. And so, of course, that's why you've been seeing Fabio Castro, Horacio Ramirez and Jo-Jo Reyes on the mound.

In terms of sample size, no morsel or fragment in relation to season-ending success is more deceptive than the opening week of baseball.

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the strand rate (S%) for pitchers, which measured the percentage of runners a pitcher stranded on base. Based on the formula for strand rate -- which used H, BB, ER and HR -- we...

Curt Schilling has made it clear that at the conclusion of his contract in 2007, his career will be finished without any Roger Clemens-like waffling on the issue. -- PhillyBurbs.com

There are still a lot of drafts happening over the next two weekends, so let's look at some potential pitching bargains in the most predominant type of league: 5x5 mixed play. The way to do this is that we've...