Welcome back! Let's kick off our 2014 speculations with a look at some spring questions from the National League.

There is safety in groundballs when targeting and drafting pitchers... or is it time to re-visit that tenet of analysis?

Raul Ibanez (42 this season), Ichiro Suzuki (40) and Derek Jeter (40) were each productive in 2013. But can these geezers be pleasers in 2014?

With success both before and after, could Adam Wainwright be the poster boy for Tommy John surgery?

In the third and final installment, an examination of all 30 MLB teams in 2013 will help gauge how they may fare in 2014. Plus, some strategy recommendations based on the findings.

Analyzing a starting pitcher's skills in the context of ball-strike counts yields some very interesting findings.

People have been waiting for the Jeremy Hellickson Regression World Tour to begin for quite some time. It appeared to finally happen in 2013....or did it?

In the second installment of his three-part series, Todd Zola examines whether the 2013 drop in stolen bases was inflenced by managerial decisions.

After rising in the previous two seasons, SB dropped in 2013. Here's at look at why, in an effort to best plan for 2014.

It seems like pitchers who can avoid giving up hard contact should do better. Let's test it!

We learned last time that WS pitchers don't suffer any next-season declines in performance. This time, we look at skills.