Look, the 1899 Spiders are the worst. No one can compete. But can you guess who came out as the worst team of the 20th century? Believe me, if I gave you five guesses, you still would not get it right.

Rather than sit around a bar stool debating who the worst teams ever are, let’s run 1000 computer sims of the game’s 28 worst clubs. First, to determine which teams go in the hopper.

A new look at the 1934 World Series champs would be a hit but for too many errors

Having looked at starting pitcher leveraging of the last few months, there’s still another issue to tackle: which franchises did it the most.

Read and find out when starting pitcher leveraging rose and fell over the decades.

Which managers did the most and least leveraging of the starting pitchers in baseball history? Click here and find out.

Take a look at Jonathan Eig’s new book on Jackie Robinson’s rookie season.

A continuation of Part 5, this lists the teams that saw the fewest LHP, and then gives the L# for just about every team from the days when teams leveraged their pitchers.

Previous articles showed platoon leveraging was a key component to pitcher leveraging. This article, examining SP platoon leveraging head-on, uncovers some interesting information that offers a modest revision to a point Bill James made in his Historical Abstract.

The inspiration for this study was a work that claimed Wes Ferrell, if adjusted for how he was leveraged, was as good in his prime as Lefty Grove. Yet AOWP+ indicates that Wes Ferrell was rather poorly leveraged. What gives?