To comemmorate the first day of winter, today's links are presented by this wintry fellow (and his backup singers) ...

* Just for the record, there's no way -- I'm responding to this -- that Mike Piazza was the best catcher in New York during this decade. Their stats were roughly the same, but Posada played a lot more and played better defense. I'm OK with the rest of Bleacher Report's choices, but this one's just flat wrong.

* Is Milton Bradley just colorful, like Dizzy Dean? I don't know, but after reading this litany I'm definitely leaning one way.

* Big League Stew kicks off an essential series of articles about non-traditional statistics with a Win Player Average primer. You've been asking for it!

* Ideas? Tim Marchman's got 'em, too. And one ignores Marchman at one's peril.

* Hey, remember last week when that crazy person said that Corey Koskie's better than Justin Morneau and Joe Nathan? Yeah ... crazy like a fox.

* Riffing on something Buster wrote about Johnny Damon, Chad Jennings raises an interesting phenomenon: players who don't want to take a pay cut to play for their old team, and wind up taking an even bigger pay cut to play somewhere else. Ah, pride ... "there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it."

* Will "Fraidy-Giants" enter the baseball lexicon? Probably not, but Mark Purdy is giving it one heck of a shot.