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Last week, Padres’ Greg Maddux registered his 350^th win.  There’s a good chance we won’t see that again in our lifetime.  While I still hold to my earlier posts that 300-game winners are not dead yet, there is serious cause for concern with the disappearance of consistent, high quality starting pitching.

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A Chase Utley-inspired look at heavy hitting 2Bs.

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And the only solution is to predict a no-hitter

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On the heels of a night where he went 2-for-4 maybe there’s hope that Phillies slugger Ryan Howard is finally snapping out of his ’08 slump. Then again, he did add to his strikeout total twice to boost it to a major league-high 56 times.

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Matt Sisson talks with Carlo DeVito about his new book Yogi: The Life and Times of an American Original.

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This was supposed to be an issue covering the 1990s, but it turns out that it just covers the first five years of that span. I predicted a somewhat different take on this decade, and I was right about that. But I had not expected my excerpting and reflecting on my old scorebooks, to take up so much space. Rather than post a 30-page issue, I’ll return to the Nineties in #447.

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Plenty of pitchers made this week’s edition of Ruts and Royalty.

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The “Greek God of Walks” powers his way up fantasy charts.

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Facts, figures and other tidbits from the sixth week of the ’08 major league baseball season.

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Astros climb Central standings

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“The Code” in baseball is an interesting but seldom discussed aspect of the game. Just this past week, both Richie Sexson and Joba Chamberlain have caused ripples in the game because of it.

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Marv Foley’s line of .217-6-19 in his final major league season in 1984 with Texas came nowhere close to winning the American League Triple Crown that season. However, Foley’s line of 1989-1993-1997 won him a much rarer triple crown, one that was never duplicated and probably never will.

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