Craig Breslow: He is a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. And he has a degree from Yale in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, which has led to the Connecticut native being given “the unofficial and potentially burdensome title of ’smartest man in baseball.’” A challenger: Philly infielder Eric Bruntlett, who has a Stanford economics degree, and scored a 1440 on the old SAT. And it would be remiss of us not to mention Ross Ohlendorf, who majored in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton. This story reads as if it were a plant from the PR folks at MLB – it comes out less than six weeks after the Wall Street Journal poked the sport: “while many current major leaguers had college experience, we found only 26 (including managers), who have earned degrees.” [USA Today]