Interesting concept for baseball pitching –

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/texas-rangers/headlines/20140531-how-unique-analytics-theory-might-benefit-rangers-strapped-rotation.ece

To celebrate the best day of the year – an interesting story about the introduction of baseball to Japan:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/03/28/291421915/japanese-baseball-began-on-my-familys-farm-in-maine

The best day of the whole year is almost here, just 3 more sleeps until MLB opening day. In Jamey Newberg’s excellent newsletter (www.newbergreport.com), he relayed that Tanner Scheppers will be the first starting pitcher to debut on opening day since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. Just another bizarre twist to the saga that is the Rangers pitching rotation.

While spring training news has been discouraging, it is still better than the awful spectacle that is the NFL franchise across the street. Jon Daniels >>>>> Jerry Jones