User letsgocyclones at Amazin’ Avenue puts together a nice baseball reading list to help Mets fans through a long offseason. The commenters — including this guy — jump in with more suggestions.

Phil Birnbaum at Sabermetric Research picks apart the Wharton School research I doubted yesterday and comes to a way smarter and better explanation: “The factoid, ‘players hitting .299 or .300 batting a whopping .463 in their final at-bat’ is true — but it’s the result of cherry-picking the AB in the sample. If the player got a hit to pass .300, it was likely to *become* his last at-bat, as he tended to sit out the rest of the season. But if he made an out, the AB wouldn’t be his last.”

Amazing, amazing work by the folks at Royals Review, transcribing Jose Canseco’s Twitter feed into poetry. Hat tip to James Kannengieser for the link. Also, for something similar — albeit both gross and massively unsafe for work — check out the transcription of George Brett’s epic gastroenterological odyssey here. 

Former object of Flushing Fussing affection and guy-who-for-some-reason-never-gets-a-chance Matt Murton broke Ichiro Suzuki’s single-season hits record in Japan. But it comes with an asterisk.