Welcome to the OC!

Welcome to the Outside Curve, a new baseball blog dedicated to...well, I don't know what exactly. At first I was going to say "...following the ups and downs of the Tampa Bay Rays", but that's not quite it. I'm a really big fan of sabermetrics, so I want to provide some in-depth statistical analysis on this site as well, but I can't claim that it's going to be a main focus of this site. They're time consuming and as a college student, I don't always have the extra time to be doing some intense number-crunching on the side.

That said, a large portion of this blog is most likely going to be my random pondering about baseball. I do, though, want to make this site a little bit of all these things. I'm going to cover the Rays. I'm going to have some statistical analysis. I'm going to talk about current issues in baseball, alert people to articles I really like, and probably rant about some issues that really get me worked up. All in all, I'm just looking to have some fun and hopefully you'll enjoy what you're reading as well.

Also, I feel like I should probably explain the site title. To clarify: I am not copying my acronym for this site name off of the TV show The OC. Back in high school, a couple of my friends and I started self-publishing a baseball magazine by the name of The Outside Curve, which we shortened to the OC on many occasions. About a year after we'd started, the TV show The OC became massively popular and we felt totally ripped off by ABC or whatever station it's on. Anyway, our magazine covered had a little bit of everything: pre-season projections, who we thought would be hot and not in the upcoming weeks, debates, editorials, creative writing...it was ridiculous. I'll probably bring some of these features back on this blog, but in a slightly new and updated fashion. And who knows, maybe I'll even have guest contributors from my past co-writers...

In the meantime, enjoy your stay at the OC! Let the countdown to Opening Day begin!