I screwed up when I presented the Weibull plots and the consistency numbers last week! Based on reader feedback, I changed the model that I used to compute the Weibull parameters. You can read about the changes in this article. Those changes did impact (pretty signifcantly) the lists I presented previously, so I wanted to […]

As far as I know, the first book review of this year’s THT Annual has been published by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching. We didn’t pay Steve to say this: I’ve read many books like this over the last quarter-century and this one is right up there among the best of the group. In terms of […]

The Mitchell Report was released today, and everyone is all ga-ga about the players named on the list. Personally, I couldn’t care less. I haven’t read the entire report yet (it’s over 400 pages!), but I do want to reiterate its conclusions. Here they are, copied directly out of the report: There has been a […]

Bill Kirwin, the founding editor of Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, passed away on December 11, succumbing to the brain cancer he had battled for a year. A native of Boston and a lifelong Red Sox fan, Kirwin was Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Calgary, in Edmonton, Alberta, […]

I don’t know if you caught the news a week or two ago, but manager Billy Southworth was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame. I mention this because the THT Annual has a piece on Southworth, penned by Jon Daly. Jon has been researching Southworth’s career for a while now, and he presented his […]

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008 is now shipping. If you’ve ordered it, sit by your front door patiently. It’s on the way. If not, what are you waiting for? This year’s Annual is the best yet. Read all about the great content here, and order it by clicking on this link. Please support the […]

Tom Tango (AKA “Tangotiger”) is proud to announce the launch of Tim Raines – Hall of Fame, 2008. He has assembled a ‘Dweeb Team’ of writers (and still-mourning Montreal Expos fans) to help him with the project. Besides himself, ESPN’s Jonah Keri, and Hardball Times staffers Craig Burley and John Brattain round out the current […]

Tuesday (Nov. 20) is the last day for teams to file their reserve lists for the major league club and all minor league levels. In other words, it is the last day to add Rule 5 draft-eligible players to the 40-man roster to protect them from being poached away by other clubs on the Dec. […]

An article on the Newsweek website highlights a new psychological study (and I use that word lightly) that supposedly proves that players with the letter “K” in their initials are more likely to strikeout than other players. I was pretty skeptical of that conclusion, so I decided to run the numbers myself. I used a […]

Todd Jones has a really interesting article up on his Sporting News blog about facing Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. This is definitely where the perspective of a major leaguer is much more interesting than what any sports writer or stat geek can ever tell you. So go ahead and click it!