I found this interesting chart via Baseball
Musings . The story behind it can be found here.
I have customized it by highlighting the Sox and Yanks starting pitchers. Lieber
and Contrares and Kim do not appear because they didn’t qualify for the ERA title.

…is about AL Batting Champ Bill Mueller.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A year ago, when Bill Mueller reported to his first spring training with the Red Sox, some fans didn’t even know the correct pronunciation of his last name. That was the least of his concerns.
Making the transition from one league to the other wasn’t Mueller’s […]

2/3rds of the outfield showed up yesterday…and boy, does one of them look
interesting.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Red Sox center fielder Johnny Damon showed up to camp 15
pounds heavier and a lot hairier.
“It’s mostly Jesus Christ,” Damon said Wednesday about the physical
comparisons he has heard. “And then I got a […]

…and even the silent ones are talking.
Nomar and Pedro were very verbose yesterday…Nomar especially addressing the
issue of how he felt about what transpired over the winter:
“The seat still fits,” Garciaparra said as he plopped down at a picnic
table in front of 15 television cameras and dozens of reporters. “Can you
[…]

One of the members of psf.com has a little band, apparently. Anyway, the group is smoking. If y’all dig Americana, or whatever the hell pigeonhole you insist on, I ask you to go to Golden West Motor Lodge
In fact go there anyway, you have nothing to lose but 10 minutes of your time.
The music […]

I like Peter King. I try to read his column every Monday during the NFL season, and even though I always skip over the Field Hockey stuff, I get enjoyment out of the rest of the article.
So I’m passing this along to you, the reader. Pass it along to others, and tell them […]

For those of you that either don’t visit Sons of Sam Horn, or have only started visiting recently, you’re going to thank me. This is the first official Mike F spring training report, which I will link to daily. I have set up a link at the top of the page that will […]

Pitchers and catchers…the day we’ve all been waiting for since the wee hours of October 18th. The day where Sox fans’ optimism starts annually building.
Thank goodness we have the Hartford Courant and the Boston Herald to put things in perspective for us with articles entitled “Theo Tells It Like It Is” and “Theo: Sox […]

It may look like it; but in all honesty, I don’t believe so. I’d accuse him of poor timing at most. Henry seems to be taking a beating in the press, and of course from Steinbrenner…but is it deserved?
In perusing articles online locally, Henry is slammed by Jeff Jacobs, Dan Shaughnessy, and Howard Bryant. […]

Well, I have to say this was not unexpected:

“We understand that John Henry must be embarrassed, frustrated and disappointed by his failure in this transaction.”
Also THIS was pretty good:

“Unlike the Yankees, he chose not to go the extra distance for his fans in Boston,” Steinbrenner said of Henry. “It is understandable, but wrong that he […]