Ok, maybe not necessarily important, but highly recommended reading.

Our friend J.C. Bradbury is about to release his first baseball book, The Baseball Economist. You may know J.C. from his web site, Sabernomics. Anyway, there's a great article on J.C. and the book on the front page of Section B in today's Wall Street Journal. You can read the article by going here: Wall Street Journal and you can pre-order the book from any one of these places:

The second bit of reading comes to us from the guys over at Gaslamp Ball. Dex and jbox have just completed a lengthy interview with one of my favorite people in all of baseball, Paul DePodesta. Check out all 3 parts...Part I, Part II, and Part III. This is one of the best interviews I've ever seen by baseball bloggers. Congrats guys!