I'm still not much of a believer in this PECOTA... I'm more of a believer in GUTS

From February 26:

Baseball Prospectus is not prepared to call the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays the best team in the AL, but its PECOTA projection system, which precisely predicted the White Sox' stunning 18-win falloff last season, forecasts an 88-74 finish for baseball's perennial bottom-feeders, a 22-win jump from 2007...

It's audacious to project an increase of 22 wins for any club, but when this much young talent coalesces so quickly, it's time to believe.

Current record with 6 games remaining: 93-62

Why did Corms & Decker suck in school?

We now know why:
Study: Initials may influence people's grades, careers

Researchers who studied the impact of initials found that baseball players whose first or last name starts with the letter K, which signifies a strikeout, tended to strike out more often than other players.

And students whose names start with the letters C or D, which denote mediocre marks in some grading systems, did not perform as well as other pupils with different initials.

"Just having the right initial doesn't spontaneously make you a better baseball player, but it can spontaneously make you a slightly worse baseball player," said Leif Nelson, of the University of California, San Diego.

Nelson and Joseph Simmons, of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, studied the effect of first or last-name initials in situations where letters corresponded to an undesirable outcome.

Now you know why K-Mad was known as "The Whiff Machine" in little league. Kasey Kiker? I won't be drafting him.

Fung = F.

It's all becoming clear...

stupid baseball stats (cont)

From ESPN bottom screen crawl...

Manny - 11 game LCS hit streak.