The STATS Inc. blog has a post documenting how each contending team’s bullpen fared in the last few weeks of the season. As you can guess, the Mets’ pen rates poorly, but it wasn’t the only one in the stretch drive doldrums.

All of our stats and graphs, including team stats and Win Shares, are now up to date through the end of the season. From we last calculated Win Shares (September 6) Manny Ramirez has accrued the most WSAB in the majors (nine). Two National Leaguers are next on the list at eight WSAB (Roy Oswalt […]

You don’t think of the Pirates as having an impact on any pennant race given that they, well, suck – but they certainly did this year. They had 3 noticable impacts. Wanna know why the Cubs had their winningest season in 63 years? Blame Pittsburgh. The Cubs loaded up on them, going 14-4, catapulting them […]

Each day of the postseason, we’ll be posting the odds of each team winning its division series, league championship and the World Series. Those odds will be calculated by James Holzhauer, who just happens to run a website called BaseballPlayoffOdds.com. Here are Jamie’s odds as of this morning: DS% Lg% WS% Boston .534 .301 .168 […]

At the season’s outset, 18 THT-ities submitted their preseason predictions. Now that the year’s over, let’s see how we did and rank us. The ranking system is easy—if you predict a team comes in first and it comes in fifth, that’s four points. If it’s third, that’s two points. Low score did the job. Ben […]

Okay, no surprise there. Pursuant to yesterday’s post, I did the AL teams as well: likely roster, likely lineups, and current Marcel projections. Red Sox: 5.67 runs per game (Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Kevin Youkilis, Jason Bay, Mark Kotsay, Sean Casey, Jason Varitek, Jed Lowrie). LA Angels: 5.48 runs per game (Chone Figgins, […]

I got an e-mail from a reporter today inquiring about changes in home run rates among differently sized players. His question piqued my interest, and I decided to run a simple query, checking on whether players of different heights have seen their home run rates decline by different amounts since the peak of the home […]

As the Twins and White Sox prepare to battle it out for the American League Central title tonight, I thought you might appreciate this little graph of how teams score. I first introduced this graph format in this article (quick tip: circle sizes are based on number of home runs hit), and it’s still one […]

Don’t believe me? I don’t blame you. The Dodgers scored 4.32 runs per game in the regular season, well below average. But there are a few problems with looking at that figure. First, the Dodgers are not the same team today that they were in April. Second, backups and scrubs are far less likely to […]

Just got back from tonight’s Cub-Brewer game in Milwaukee. I saw so many Ryan Braun jerseys than Prince Fielder ones I started to keep a tally. Result: Braun: 48 Fielder: 12 Also, I counted 10 Hardys, 5 Harts, 4 Sheets, and 1 Carlo Lee. (There’s no repeats – there’s a way I know that, but […]