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A pitcher's win-loss record is just the beginning of the tale. These stats, once understood, can help a fan learn the whole story about a pitcher's value to his team.

Ryan threw seven no-hitters, struck out more batters than anyone else in history and won 324 games. So why is he rarely acknowledged as one of the game's great pitchers?

From Painting the Black to the Platinum Sombrero to Hitting a Seeing Eye Single past the Pivot Man, the lexicon of baseball terms continues.

Despite stumbling in July, Jake Peavy is back on his game and is the favorite to win the National League Cy Young Award. But Brad Penny is nipping at his heels.

Pitchers with 5.84 ERAs give their team very little chance of winning anything. The Yankees lost because Roger Clemens pitched a lousy game.

Here are the top five Cy Young contenders, and a few more who have an outside shot at the award.

While some could have foreseen that the Red Sox would have the best record in the American League, nobody predicted the Milwaukee Brewers would lead the Senior Circuit.

Four teams will do battle in the American League West, a division that has been dominated by the Angels in recent years.

Will the Chicago White Sox trade their pitchers before the July 31 Major League Baseball Trade deadline? In the NL West, is Arizona's Livan Hernandez headed out?

After the low-point of the Nebula Awards anthologies with the 2001 volume, the series began to slowly improve in quality, starting with Kim Stanley Robinson's choices.

The Yankees two highly paid free agent acquisitions are finally playing well in New York.

Attention to the supplier-process-customer relationships in a business brings to light the importance of people being fully engaged.

The American League East figures to once again be the most competitive division in baseball.

In one quick year, former head coach Marv Levy has begun overhauling the Buffalo roster. This is a look at what he's done so far and moves he could still make.

The Boston Red Sox need to be more consistent -- and productive -- if they want to stave off a charge by the New York Yankees.

Analysis of the 2004 NFL draft classes of the Arizona Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons.

The mid-year awards in the National League for Most Valuable Player, Cy Young, Rookie of the Half Year, Comeback Player and Free Agent Bust.

Following the bombastic pomp and orchestration of Scott and Scott 2, Scott Walker returns not only more melancholy, but more reliant on his original compositions.

Beckett led the Red Sox to the 2007 A.L. East Division crown. He will win the Cy Young Award, but he wasn't the only Junior Circuit pitcher who had a great season.

Barry Zito never showed a hint of frustration while he was taking so many losses after signing one of baseball's most lucrative contracts before the 2007 season.

The St. Louis Cardinals area the class of a competitive NL Central in the early going followed by the surprising Pittsburgh Pirates who are only three games back.

Even after a week where the Red Sox went 2-5, they still hold the top spot by virtue of having the best record in baseball and the largest disvision lead in the MLB.

The race for the American league Cy Young Award could come to one head to head matchup between front runners Chien-Ming Wang and Josh Beckett.

Only a handful of Major League Baseball stars have signed contracts in excess of $100 million. Some have been worth it it. Others? Not so good.