We’ve started a new feature at the Hardball Times. It’s called the “Team Spotlight” and you can find it in the lower portion of our Teams Page. Every few days, we’ll be turning our graphical eye to various teams around the majors, depending on who’s hot and who’s not. Today, we’re starting with the ultra-hot […]

Lee Sinins has been doing a superb job of updating Barry Bonds’ all-time lists during the season. But here’s one more for you, the all-time Win Shares list. At the beginning of the season, this was the list of all players with 600 or more Win Shares in their entire career: Ruth 756 Cobb 722 […]

Win Shares have been updated, as of Thursday’s games. One of the fun things Win Shares allows you to do is review the impact that trades have had on teams, regardless of the types of players involved. So I took a look of some of this year’s most significant deals. The Vazquez deal: The Yankees […]

Our latest stats and graphs, through yesterday’s games, are now online. We’ve added a little team navigation at the top of each page, to make it a tad easier for you to look up your favorite team. Win Shares will be out later this weekend.

Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an article entitled At Dodger Stadium, A Noteworthy Figure Loses Playing Time. You have to have an online subscription to read it on the Web, or you can just read it in your local library on actual paper. I point it out because it documents the changes in ballpark music […]

Both National League and American Win Shares have been updated. According to Win Shares, a pair of Twins have been the two most valuable pitchers in the AL: Joe Nathan and Johan Santana. Also, Posada has overtaken I-Rod for the catching lead, and the right side of the infield is led by two Indians: Travis […]

The Mets made two big trades this evening, picking up Kris Benson from the Pirates and Victor Zambrano from Tampa Bay. The Mets essentially gave up Ty Wigginton, Matt Peterson and Justin Huber for Benson (Huber was traded to Kansas City for Jose Bautista, who was sent onto Pittsburgh). And they gave up lefty phenom […]

We have the first deadline time deal. The Dodgers have traded C Paul Lo Duca, RF Juan Encarnacion and P Guillermo Mota to the Marlins for P Brad Penny, 1B Hee Seop Choi and minor league P Bill Murphy. Peter Gammons is reporting the Dodgers are trying to deal Penny and a group of prospects […]

As promised, the individual batting and pitching stats have been updated. One of the stats we track is the number of batters faced by each pitcher. Here are the top fifteen in BFP (batters faced by pitcher). Livan Hernandez is at the top of the list, to no one’s surprise. But Brandon Webb has been […]

I just updated the team stats and graphs, and they’re worth checking out. The best team in the majors this year has been the St. Louis Cardinals. They’re the only team solidly above the .600 line, leading the majors in run differential (runs scored minus runs allowed) by a wide margin. Here’s a list of […]