There’s a nice thought concept by Sky over at Beyond the Boxscore, laying out a system for asking what level of Leverage Index relief pitchers “deserve.” It provides a nice framework for evaluating bullpen usage, though I’d be careful to use established levels of performance instead of stats based on one season (or less).

The second issue of Heater is available for download by THT subscribers. I have pushed the previously announced changes to next week so that we could complete work on the hitter pages with our biggest upgrade yet: PROJECTIONS. Yep—now when you check out the hitters at a position, you will get their projected numbers as […]

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Interesting article from Accu-weather that could explain the home run barrage this weekend in the Bronx. I realize it’s just a 4-game sample, but at the same point, Bill James used to talk about ‘signature significance’. Most HR ever in a first series at a new ballpark would seem like a situation where that might […]

We moved the notice about the John Brattain Memorial Fund from our home page to John’s author page. Understandably, donations for John’s family have stopped coming in, but we will leave the fund open for those who still want to remember John and assist his family. Altogether, 142 people contributed to John’s fund, with donations […]

Get them via PDF. (Courtesy Heater Magazine.)

Get them via PDF. (Courtesy Heater Magazine.)

You can now find THT’s graphs on our Teams Stats pages. I’ll update the standings graphs each morning, and the “diagnostic” graphs will be updated as needed (which means often early in the season and less often late in the season). It might take you a minute to get used to the diagnostic graphs, but […]

Eric Seidman has a Fangraphs post about Rich Harden’s fascinating start against the Rockies. According to ESPN (and Eric), Harden’s total number of batters faced equaled his total of strikeouts, walks and hits allowed. This has been done before, of course, but never by anyone facing as many batters as Harden did on Wednesday.