In today’s article on league difficulty, I wrote that The Book recommended adding 400 plate appearances of average performance to a player’s record when regressing to the mean. It turns out I was mistaken, as the authors use different numbers in different parts of the book, but I am told by Tom Tango, one of […]

The Hardball Times makes a small appearance in this excellent article (sorry, subscription required) on the Wall Street Journal’s website this weekend. The article talks about Vince Gennaro’s new Diamond Dollars book (which has been highlighted here in the past) and includes excellent insights from baseball insiders. My favorite quote is at the end of […]

Our page of team statistics, featuring overall team hitting, pitching and fielding stats, is now available for the 2007 season. Check out our unique performance stats when you get a chance, but also note that the graphs have not yet been updated for 2007. Hopefully, I’ll get to that later this week.

I skipped class today to watch Daisuke Matsuzaka make his first major league start, and boy was that a good decision. I ordered the best buffalo wings in the world, and watched Dice-K spin a beauty. Some notes follow: Matsuzaka throws five pitches: a fastball, curveball, slider, changeup, and splitter. Dice-K utilizes his off-speed stuff […]

Many of you probably know that Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has started writing his own blog. It offers some fascinating insight on pitching, for example, this is from yesterday’s recap of his opening day start in Kansas City: I then throw Pena 5 FBs, and walk him on a 3-1 count. None of the […]

There’s a new place to hang out on the Internet. It’s called Ballhype, and it combines the tracking of a simple RSS feed with many more advanced features found on social networking sites like Digg. You can join groups (such as the Hardball Times group), select friends, send messages, vote on stories and lots of […]

The Wall Street Journal’s daily sports column, The Daily Fix, asked a bunch of top-notch Internet baseball writers for their 2007 predictions. And they asked me, too. It’s entertaining reading despite my best efforts to ruin it, so run on over and check it out.

Special from The Baseball Injury Report Injury: Joe Mauer has been diagnosed with a stress reaction in the fibula in his left leg. A stress reaction is a weakening of the bone and can be a precursor to a stress fracture. The injury process typically goes from a silent stress reaction > stress reaction > […]

So we’ve finally filled the THT Fantasy League, and unfortunately, with everything going on, I won’t be able to individually email everyone who responded. But I do want to thank you all for your tremendous interest. We got nearly 75 emails, and you all seemed like great people to play with. Anyone who’s interested can […]

They say that, in baseball, you have to be able to accept failure (after all, even the best hitters make outs over 60% of the time). Well, the same is true in baseball publishing. We found a couple of mistakes in our projections. Actually, just two pitcher projections were off, which is pretty darn good. […]