Dave Cameron has post six on win values, in which he explains how Fangraphs converts wins to dollars. I have a feeling a lot of people will misinterpret this information, so be sure to read closely!

Rays Index looks back over the previous year. It’s a fun read of what happened on the leading blog that covered the most interesting baseball story of 2008.

Major League Baseball’s new cable network is going live in a few hours. Right now, they’re running some pretty pictures with nice music in the background. Pretty soon, though, you’ll be able to watch Don Larsen’s perfect game, and you can catch the rest of their schedule on their site. If you’re interested in more […]

We want to thank all of you for supporting THT the past year, and we hope you have a great 2009. 2008 was a pretty successful year here. Our lineup of writers continued to be strong, we published two great books and one of our favorite bloggers, Shysterball, came on board. We’ll do our best […]

Mark DeRosa heads to Cleveland for three minor leaguers as the Cubs ink Aaron Miles to a 2-year deal and the Angels sign Brian Fuentes to a 2-year deal with an option for a third.

Wezen-ball has a nice research piece on whether Jim Rice was the most “feared” slugger of his time. Personally, I find this whole “feared” thing to be an bizarre way of judging a player to be Hall of Fame material. Dick Allen was feared in his day, but that seems to work against him. For […]

Here is the second part of Dave Cameron’s Win Values explanation at Fan Graphs. This stuff is key reading. Win Values aren’t perfect, but they’re likely to become the “go to” stat of the future.

There’s been an awful lot going on at Fangraphs and I can’t keep up with it all. Dave Cameron is coming to my rescue, though. Here is his first blog entry describing how the batting portion of win values is calculated. Of course, to really get it, you’ll need to understand wOBA and wRAA. Everything […]

I’ve updated my historical Win Shares files. You can download them, in comma-separated (CSV) format, from the Baseball Graphs FTP site. CSV files can be imported into Access, Excel and many other applications. The files include Win Shares for virtually all major leaguers through the 2008 season. Plus, you can calculate your own “loss shares” […]

Driveline Mechanics looks at the past two years’ free agent pitcher signings, using the new salary calculations available from Fangraphs. I don’t know enough about Fangraphs’ calculations to say whether this analysis is legitimate, but pitchers have been paid relatively more than position players ever since we first started tracking salaries at THT. As the […]