I hope that you visit our Teams page on a regular basis to check out the statistical details of your favorite team. I also update the team standing graphs each day (though I’ll be out of commission the next couple of days and won’t be able to update them until next Monday). The last month […]

A couple weeks ago at Beyond the Boxscore, I re-posted Mike Fast’s old tutorial on how to create a PItch f/x database with some commentary of my own. The purpose of this was to illistrate a layman’s point of view, when dealing with scary computer related stuff. Mike was also kind enough to drop by, […]

A thought occurred to me as I was looking at the online box score for the Tigers-Angels game in progress tonight. The benches of the two teams looked pretty solid. I had just finished watching the Royals beat Cleveland (great game by Greinke!), and I wondered if the Royals’ starting lineup was as good as […]

…there ain’t much left to hold on to. The news of yet another Mets star going down for a significant period of time (the rest of the season, actually) will hopefully put to rest the hopes of those few Mets fans who were still clinging to the possibility of a wild card run. Despite being […]

Andruw Jones is definitely having a comeback year relative to his 2008 campaign; however, his wOBA has dipped to .348 on the season, and for a player who is primarily a DH, a .348 wOBA isn’t all that impressive. However, because wOBA takes into account hits, it is influenced by the player’s BABIP, which could […]

Jered Weaver to Tim Welke tonight after Welke awarded first base to Ramon Santiago, who had just leaned into an 89-mph cut fastball from Weaver. Did Weaver have a point? According to the PITCHf/x system at the Big A, the pitch was five inches from the middle of the plate, so Weaver was correct that […]

Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and poltical science at Columbia University, and may be most known for his fame as a writer at Nate Silver’s outstanding politics blog, Five Thirty-Eight. In a post at his own blog, Gelman answered a question on sabermetrics, and in his reply wrote the following: There’s often a […]

The Cleveland Indians called up prospect Matt LaPorta last week and all likelihood he will be here to stay. LaPorta was the prize for the Indians in a deal last year that sent C.C. Sabathia to the Brewers. The 7th overall pick in 2007, he has done nothing but hit at every level of the […]

As he does every year, Tom Tango is compiling the Fans’ Scouting Report. He is seeking help from baseball fans to rate the defensive abilities of the players they have watched this season. Baseball’s fans are very perceptive. Take a large group of them, and they can pick out the final standings with the best […]

A little while ago, I wrote that the Dfa’d Smoltz still had some stuff in the tank and would be a good pick up for a contending team. The basis behind that was that a lot of his terrible performance in Boston was attributable to luck, and his stuff still looked pretty good. I referenced […]