Craig Burley of THT is pursuing your baseball dreams as part of a project he’s working on. If you’ve had a dream about baseball or ballplayers recently that you remember with sufficient clarity, or if you keep a dream diary and there are baseball-related dreams in it, please consider joining the rest of us dreamers […]

The Hardball Times is going to be well-represented at the SABR convention in Seattle. Steve Treder is going to present an overview and assessment of the long career of Paul Richards, as player, manager, and GM. It’s called The Wizard of Waxahachie.” Maury Brown and Dan Fox will present an augmentation of the article Maury […]

We’ve added JC Bradbury’s PrOPS (Predicted OPS, or On Base Plus Slugging Percentage) to our stats page. PrOPS uses a number of factors, such as a batter’s batted ball, strikeout and home run rates, to predict his OPS. JC’s research has found PrOPS to be about as useful as other major predictive stats. You can […]

You asked for it, and now you’ve got it. The 2006 Win Shares are now available for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.

It’s that time of the year when birds start chirping, flowers start growing, and we here at THT start preparing next year’s Annual. I’m writing an article for the Annual about Tommy John surgery, and have been trying to get a complete list of pitchers who have had Tommy John surgery done. I’m asking you, […]

Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Bryan Donovan, we now have a much better user interface for our stats. We haven’t added any new stats (with one notable exception), but you can now easily sort and filter THT’s unique set of baseball metrics. Take a look at our stats page, and you’ll see you now […]

Team stats and graphs are now available in our Teams section. These offer a unique view of each team’s strengths and weaknesses, and they’ll be updated every day during the rest of the season. Enjoy.

Over at Tyblog, in honor of Albert Pujols singlehandedly beating the Reds with three home runs today, I took a look at Albert’s chances of reaching some pretty lofty career milestones… including five major career records. I know what you’re all saying: “but do you realize Quinton McCracken homered for the Reds!?” I’ll do the […]

The first phase of our 2006 stats pages are now available. At this stage, we have stats online for each of the past three years, including 2006 stats updated daily. We’ll be adding some news stats soon. I’ll have the “Team” page working in about a week and a half, and Win Shares will be […]

Our 2006 stats aren’t available yet, but they will be soon. We’re working on several new features, including stats from the previous two years in our tables and adding several new stats. In the meantime, check out the different views and stats available on Fangraphs.com.