As we’ve all heard by now, Wang Chien-ming is on his way to the Washington Nationals.  The writing was on the wall when the Yankees non-tendered Wang in December, but there was still speculation Wang would re-sign with the Bombers at a reduced rate in the end.  Now the break-up is official.
I’m looking forward to [...]

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You’ve worked hard.  In just a couple of years, EWC has grown into a smashing success and thanks to your hard work, and you’re making a splash in the international scouting world.  I think it’s time to treat yourself for your, um, 31st?  33rd? birthday and hit the links.

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If you’re like me and still haven’t quite recovered from the back-to-back drubbings the Taiwanese NT received over the weekend, you can relive the anti-glory in these two Taipei Times articles covering the games and help try to make sense of it all.
Silver lining–both stories were front and center on the newspaper in the last [...]

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This article was first published by Yahoo! on Andy Behrens’ exceptional baseball blog Roto Arcade on September 13, 2008. It is a preview of potential Japanese free agents for 2009. Warning to Westbay-San: Darvish rumors enclosed. Read at own risk.

With Daisuke Matsuzaka’s emergence as Boston’s ace, Ichiro’s Hall of Fame-caliber MLB career, and the early [...]

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Your East Windup Chronicle was recently profiled on Sports Tech Now, a site that profiles blogs and Web sites either directly or indirectly related to sports. I answer a few questions, mostly things about the short history of EWC, but also get into marketing, and the future of sports and technology.
Check it out here.

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I promise I won’t link to everything I write for MLB Trade Rumors, but this is more of an article than a post and it concerns Pirates  first baseman  turned  outfielder Steve Pearce, a major league ready hitter who is currently blocked and likely to be sent back to the minors. Hence its inclusion in [...]

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After a seething fit of jealousy at Aaron’s new gig with the vaunted  Major League Baseball Trade Rumors, I decided I am not to be outdone by the indomitable force that is Shinsano, and got me a gig at the  Taipei Times, where I will be working as a contributing sportswriter.   My initial [...]

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I have a couple posts over at Tim Dierkes’ MLB Trade Rumors if you’re interested. Pretty straightforward stuff for my first stab at blogging for 1 trillion daily readers — a he said/they said item concerning the Padres inability to resign Mike Cameron over the winter, and a second bit  about how the Brad Hawpe [...]

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You might remember my write-up of the Early Mockery draft conducted by Roto Arcade’s Andy Behrens. Even more likely you read Andy and are coming here for the first time, but that’s beside the point.
What he’s doing here is turning the tried and true expert draft theme on it’s head and writting about a normal, [...]

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As you can see, we’ve retired East Windup Chronicle Ver. 1.0 and switched to a  jazzy new theme. Naturally, this will take some time in getting used to for everyone. For example, don’t click on the buttons labeled “archives” or “about.”
See, I  told you not to. Anyway, really nothing else will be changing. But [...]

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First, we were giddy after Twins blogger extraordinaire Aaron Gleeman gave us props on his site. Had the good lord of baseball blogs bestowed only that blessing upon us, we would have said “dayenu” and raised our glasses in thanks.
However, yesterday the wheel of baseball blog fortune was kind to EWC again, as we enjoyed [...]

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Note: for those of you bizarre and/or well-adjusted enough not be interested in fantasy baseball, this article isn’t for you. Instead, we reccommend this.
As day breaks, your humble EWC hosts Aaron and Jackson are knotted up 5-5 in a dramatic conclusion to a semi-final match in a 6×6 12-team head-to-head salary cap keeper league–The Inscrutable [...]

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In the world of baseball blogs, in our humble opinion nobody does it better than NBC Sports.com and Rotoworld Senior Editor Aaron Gleeman. In his blog, the cleverly titled AaronGleeman.com, the Twins-centric writer consistently produces outstanding, in depth-analysis that rivals or improves upon coverage found in the mainstream press. In a recent post on his [...]

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