Apparently the English know baseball. Matt Smith at Baseball GB (Great Britain) has penned the most recent review of the THT annual. He closes the review with this: The Hardball Times Annual is an excellent concept for stat-minded fans and this 2010 edition matches the quality of previous efforts. Can’t say that I disagree. Follow […]

With the signing of left-hander Doug Davis to a one-year deal worth $4.5 million, the Brewers have completed a makeover of a rotation that was in dire straits for all of 2009. In a process that began with cutting Braden Looper loose and snagging Randy Wolf, perhaps the best starting pitcher on the market, Milwaukee […]

Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack. Jack was an ordinary man working for an ordinary beer maker in the upper Midwest when it was decreed by the king that Jack should move westward. “Go west, through Fargo and Butte, Missoula and Coeur d’Alene, and make a left at Spokane,” he was […]

Earlier today, it was revealed that the baseball version of Humpty Dumpty, Carl Pavano, signed for $7 million, avoiding arbitration with the Minnesota Twins. Elsewhere in the great expanse of the midwest, the Colorado Rockies struck an accord with closer Huston Street to the tune of three years and $22.5 million. There are those that […]

Nah, just kidding, it’s actually some really cool baseball links! Here they are: -Keep on voting for those BtB Sabermetric Awards (and keep your favorite THT writers in mind). -Our friend Jack Moore takes a neat look at how much teams are paying per win in the arbitration market. -Just how much do farm systems […]

As a lover of sabermetric pitching analysis, two of my favorite stats are unsurprisingly xFIP and tRA. xFIP wisely takes into account the factors that a pitcher has control over, while tRA looks at the “quality” of batted balls given up. Both are summed up into nicely-packed numbers that resemble ERA (although one must multiply […]

For the past few weeks, our friends over at Beyond the Box Score have been doing some work putting together their “Sabermetric Writing Awards.” Readers nominated articles and authors for seven different categories, some of which included best applied research article, best researcher or writer, and best new online resource. The voting works like this: […]

Last January, the Tampa Bay Rays inked Pat Burrell to a two-year, $16 million contract. The long-time Philadelphia Phillie garnered a reputation as a potent hitter and a plodding fielder (they don’t call him Pat the Bat for nothin’), seemingly making him a good fit as Tampa’s DH. The price tag appeared reasonable. Burrell posted […]

The tables below reflect twelve free agent signings this off-season. The columns show the respective players’ 2009 WAR, the average annual value of the contracts they’ve signed this off-season (in millions), and the dollars paid to the player per ’09 win. Table 1 Player ’09 WAR AAV $/WAR Player 1 1.7 $6 3.53 Player 2 […]

Sean Forman, the overlord at Baseball-Reference.com has created an e-reader version of Baseball Reference that will allow anyone to look up statistics while on the go. Forman was assisted by John Burnson of Heater Magazine, who also contributes to THT. The goal here was to put all player statistics in a handy format to be […]