Ramirez is having a great post-season (even though his Dodgers are close to going down at this moment), but what’s that funky colored thing in his mouth? Looks like a mouthpiece, but why would a baseball player need a mouthpiece? Turns out it’s a “Pure Power Mouthpiece,” which claims to improve athletic performance. Riiiight. Cost? [...]

Here are a couple of tilt-shift fakes I made in Photoshop. Click to enlarge. Lil Yankee Stadium: Lil Shea:

As the regular season progressed, it seemed clear that several of the Titusville batters were underperforming. Rollins, Blalock, & Howard were all hovering around the Mendoza line. Run production was near the bottom of the league. What was going on? With the end of the regular season, I can analyze this using the Legend’s excellent [...]

I counted the IPs of LH/RH pitchers that faced the Perfectos during the ’08 regular season. Lefties started only two of the 36 games, 5.6%. Lefties appeared in 30.6% of the games. Lefties accounted for only 9.29% of the innings pitched. Wow, that’s low. Now, when I looked at this before, I determined that 21.7% [...]