If you haven’t already heard, David Pinto of Baseball Musings is holding a pledge drive. So far 137 people have contributed to David’s cause. If you’re not familiar with Pinto, or Baseball Musings I definitely encourage you to check out the site. David is a former lead researcher for Baseball Tonight, and for the last few years has become one of the most prolific baseball bloggers. Last year, he made blogging his full time job so this pledge drive is more than an opportunity to make a few bucks – it a way to feed his family.

I strongly encourage you to visit his site and make a donation. If you’re not a regular reader of his site, but you’re a reader of DTW, then you have benefited from much of David’s work. The probablistic model of range and day by day database are both products of Baseball Musings. Both are valuable tools that I’ve leaned on heavily in the past, and he makes them available for free. This is despite the fact that the data behind the tools comes at a cost. Just last week we were able to see the optimal Tiger lineup through a script that Pinto wrote and made available to the masses.

I know that money may be tight for many of you (belive me I know), but if you enjoy some of the analysis that you see here I’d hope that you would consider stopping by and making a donation. A dollar or two out of everyone’s pocket is a pretty small price to pay for the research and data that David provides. I’d love to see Tiger fans, and readers of DTW step up and help keep Baseball Musings going.