Here’s another one of those silly day counting things I sometimes do: 10,000 days ago, Milwaukee Brewer slugger Ryan Braun was born. Other day-versaries of note today: 1,000 days since A’s trade Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin to the Cubs for four players, including Matt Murton and Sean Gallagher. 2,000 days since the A. J. […]

This is about as bad as it gets. The victim has “swelling of the brain, a fractured skull, and…a frontal lobe that’s bruised pretty badly.” He’s now in a medically-induced coma. Why? Because he chose to go watch his favorite team play. Yes, he was at the opponent’s stadium. Sure, he was wearing his team’s […]

Sure, maybe there have been one or two pitchers surrender double-digit runs in extremely brief outings. Maybe a batter or two has gone 0-for-7 in a 15-inning contest. Maybe a closer (John Axford?) has coughed up a big lead to blow what seemed to be a certain victory. But did anyone’s first-game performance ever fall […]

Aaron Gleeman, the original Grand Poobah of the Hardball Times, likes to celebrate Opening Day with a quote. In the spirit of tradition, here it is. Happy Baseball. Little darling, it’s been a long, long lonely winter Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, […]

We all know what everyone says about spring stats: They don’t count. Despite that, spring stats still can convey information about a player and they can even reflect a change in a player’s skill set. Someone who pays attention to such information can learn something prior to the season despite sample size issues, a weaker […]

Each of the past few years, I’ve published career projections for all players aged 21-41 based on a system I developed a few years ago. See last year’s article for reference. This year, I’m too busy to write an article, but I’ve run the numbers so I figured I would throw them up here for […]

The Hardball Times doesn’t quite run itself. In particular, Bryan Donovan has been helping out behind the scenes for many years now, building the code for our stats and THT Forecasts. Unfortunately, Bryan doesn’t have as much time as he used to and we’re looking for additional programming help. We’d like someone with expertise in […]

For those of you who use Twitter to quench your baseball thirst, we’ve created a special list in Twitter that includes all THT writers (at least, those willing to be included). You can find it here: @dastudes/tht. The list includes two special THT Twitter feeds, THT Links and THT Fantasy, as well as lots of […]

On May 21, I’ll be participating in a sabermetric seminar at Harvard University. The seminar will take place over two days, and include such sabermetric luminaries as Jeremy Greenhouse, Tom Tippett, Alan Nathan, and Mitchel Lichtman. It costs $120 to attend the seminar ($75 if you’re a student), with all proceeds going to the Jimmy […]

The Hardball Times is sponsoring a game over at FanDuel. I’m not one for fantasy sports, but the format of this game intrigues me so I’ve decided to give it a shot. The setup is really pretty easy—you don’t have to join a league or draft players or do anything complicated like that. You simply […]