In the latest round of PrOPS (NL, AL) I have made a small change. Washington has been such an extreme pitchers park this year that I had to make an in-season adjustment. So, the numbers for the Nationals have been updated to reflect this, giving the players a boost in their PrOPS.

Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg will be inducted into Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame today, a wonderful time and place to celebrate baseball’s history. You can catch the events on the Hall of Fame’s website or in Dan Holmes’s blog.

The Hardball Times is happy to present our newest statistical feature: individual player pages. Now you can view all 2005 stats for a player on his individual page—just search by his last name in the search box on the left, or from our main Statistics page. Once again, many thanks to the hard-working Bryan Donovan.

Not Abner Doubleday, not even Alexander Cartwright. According to this article by the eminent John Thorn, the real inventors of modern-day baseball were Adams, Wheaton and Wadsworth, with a nod to Cartwright. If you have any interest in baseball’s history, this is a must.

After the All-Star break, Lee Sinins will no longer be posting his Around the Majors reports on The Hardball Times. He has decided to convert his articles to an e-mail subscription service in order to continue to be able to afford the time he puts into them. Please support Lee and click here to subscribe. […]

We’ve updated all stats and we’ve continued to improve the stats interface for you. Both the individual batting and pitching teams are now updated automatically and sortable, and the Win Shares are sortable too. Plus, we have the latest version of PrOPS (Predicted OPS). All stats are accessible from our stats page, and you can […]

Our own Steve Treder was quoted in today’s Chicago Tribune, citing some of the work he has done with pitch counts. You can view all of Steve’s great work in our author archives.

Thanks to the phenomenal Bryan Donovan, we now have a new page of batting stats available. This page replaces the batting stats we’ve been posting previously. Some of the features of this new page are: – The stats will update automatically every night – You can sort on any of the stats And it just […]

Well, I guess we don’t really have more stats, but all the stats we have are now updated through Tuesday’s games.

We’ve updated JC Bradbury’s PrOPS (Predicted OPS) stats through games of June 12th. Here are the links to: The American League PrOPS The National League PrOPS You can read more about JC’s PrOPS system in this article.