Deep-dive baseball stories

Some of my favorite baseball articles online are those that dive deeeeeep into something, whether it's an at bat, a play, a phenomenon. There's amazing creative stuff to be mined when a writer focuses her/his attention on a snapshot or a narrow slice. Here is a running list of my favorites:

• Let's watch Felix Hernandez and Mike Trout Face Off Forever (Fangraphs)
• Robert Gsellman's secret exposed (ESPN)
• Inside the Draft Room: The 2009 Angels (mlbtraderumors.com)

(Non-baseball deep dives)

• Surface tension: The probably untrue story of the Iceman Pour