Ryan Howard nearly decapitated Phillies media relations folks Greg Casterioto and Kevin Gregg last Saturday when he ripped a foul ball through an open press box window. The ball flew between the two, and hit the back wall on the fly. The ball not only put a hole in the dry wall, which is about 20 [...]
Matt Swartz at Baseball Prospectus broaches the topic of Ol’ King Cole Hamels, creepy ad man. Swartz thinks Cole is A-OK. [...] the difference between 2008 and 2009 is abnormally good luck in the first and abnormally bad luck in the second. The first clue was that he had similar peripheral statistics in 2008 and [...]