I get the idiosyncratic New York paper for free, and I’m glad of it. The Sun’s politics are to the right of my own, but the paper often has smart, interesting stories on things that get overlooked by the Times.

For instance: in today’s edition, Alex Brittell writes about how Carlos Delgado of the Mets has for years been hitting worse at night than during the day, and that the gap is growing.

He then refers to a study someone did about players who got Lasix and how they fared the subsequent season.

An interesting, unexpected way to write about baseball, right?

But the Times doesn’t have a single sportswriter who uses sabermetrics in his analysis of the game…. Which strikes me as simply bizarre. It’s as if the last ten years in baseball writing never happened.