Links of the Day:

The SaberScouts answer questions.

Wes Helms is a Marlin.

Kyle Snyder will also be changing addresses.

Pic of the Day: Tulo/J-Up, the future of the National League.

100 Words on: Dontrelle Willis

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	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2008 - Dontrelle Willis	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	1	3	3	0	7	0	5.40	1.60

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That's Willis' line from yesterday, five innings, a hit, and seven walks. Before he was pulled Willis had a no-hitter going for five full innings, however he was responsible for runners on after a rough start to the sixth. Remember my theory about wild pitchers being more likely to throw no-hitters? This is exactly the situation I was talking about, unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Dontrelle couldn't last.

Best Pitching Matchup: James Shields v. Chien-Ming Wang

Remember that Zito piece from last week where I suggested his arm might be shot? The guys at NoBiasBaseball brought the piece up to BP's Will Carroll yesterday in their podcast. That particular segment begins around the 10:20 mark.

Update: It looks like instead of a short post I'll be setting up the site for it's change on Sunday.

The guys at SaberScouts with a look at Johnny Cueto.

Bill James + Freakonomics? Amazing.

Something I'll be looking at later this week on here, the Rays rotation and the 500 minor league innings theory.

Pic of the day: Sheffield has a heart.

In case you aren't a DRB reader, and shame on you if you aren't, the new site SaberScouting is pretty great now that Carlos Gomez is no longer at THT providing scouting analysis.

Pic of the day: David Ortiz embraces culture

I'm proud to announce that BTB has a new addition to the staff. His name is Dan Turkenkopf and you can read some of his work, including his great research on catcher's defense over at his blog Stealing First. He'll be debuting here within the next week.

David Gassko over at The Hardball Times looks at batted balls and park effects.

Remember the Obama baseball themed shirts? Yeah, the MLB finally ended that.

Did the Yanks never actually offer Phil Hughes or Melky Cabrera for Johan Santana? Jim Callis hints at it during a new podcast with No Bias Baseball. Am I the only one outraged that they apparently have a name bias though?

Pic of the day: It might not be Wrigley Field, but McKechnie Field is beautiful, and now has lights!

Eric Seidman is nuts, he's live  blogging his re-reading of Moneyball.

Lookout Landing looks at pitchers and velocity.

Derek Jacques on CHEERS and Tim Raines.

Pic of the day: Yep, this is what all Rays fans look like.

David Bloom looks at total bases and times on base.

Amongst others, McCovey Chronicles is now using SBN2.0, from my understanding BTB should be turning over within the next week, if you try and visit the site and it's down don't fret, we should be back up and running within a few hours.

Mariners mojo? Lackey being hurt.

Did you know Scott Munter threw the most fastballs proportional to total pitches thrown last year? That's just one of the things you can learn from Fangraphs pitching data leaderboard.

Pic of the day: Adrian Gonzalez can still swing the bat, even in China.

Fangraphs has added pitch data for each pitcher; scroll to the bottom for the info. Hat tip to RotoJunkie.

If you didn't see the brawl overblown confrontation yesterday between the Yankees and Rays, I have video up over at DRaysBay

I'm about to post the final NL previews, so no pics of the day.

Gordon Edes has a nice interview with Bill James at the Boston Globe website. Part of it is his role with the Red Sox, but it's more of a primer for Gold Mine.

Hat tip to Repoz at BTF, apparently David Wright isn't a big fan of stats:

Rob Neyer, Rich Lederer, Patrick Sullivan, and Joe Posnanski, why are you still reading this? Go, go! Oh, yeah, the link.

AP Pic of the day: Joba

Joe Posnanski with a simply beautiful article, not that it's a rare occurrence for him.

And on the other side of the spectrum, this. What the heck does this even mean:

The great Cyril Morong on homeruns and contact rates.

Luckily for the baseball community and mankind in general, Keith Law is alive.

Finally, the Corey Hart love continues with John Sickels.

Pic of the day: Joey Gathright, out at home.