Walk Like a Sabermetrician

How best to evaluate a pitcher’s W-L record? While it has plenty of contextual biases, one that it does not have is park/era, since W% alwa...

As I write this, yesterday Oregon State, pretenders to the abbreviation of OSU, won the College World Series (yes, I really did write this i...

I have always considered myself to be much more a fan of baseball in general then of any specific team. This is not the case for me in othe...

I thought it would be a useful exercise, for myself at least, to run a quick check of the all-star break statistics. There are great, updat...

I don't have enough readers to turn this into a trivia game, although if you by chance happen to read this and want to take a stab at it...

The American League has beaten up the National League in interleague play this year, and of course has a string of recent success in the All...

The Mind of Bill James by Scott Gray, subtitled "How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball", is a book that cannot decide exactly ...

In the last week, there was a lively discussion on the mailing list of the SABR Statistical Analysis Committee on a proposal to change the n...