ESPN, which started tracking DIPS with their regular pitching stats a few weeks back, has now started tracking Productive Outs. Ahh well, it can’t all be progress. For those interested, here are the correlations for some of the stats tracked: Wins to Total Productive Outs: -.316 Wins to Total Productive Out Opportunities: .168 Losses to […]

Skyking devised a “ladder of baseball competence” on his blog a couple of weeks ago. I just came across it, and I think it’s great. So, with Sky’s permission, we are reprinting it here. 1. Fall in love with Joe Morgan, Rob Dibble, Harold Reynolds, Jim Kaat, and other ex-ballplayers sharing their wisdom. 2. Start […]

Earlier this week, the Yankees sent 3B Brian Myrow to the Dodgers to complete last month’s trade for Tanyon Sturtze. This is a great pickup for LA. Sturtze is a scrap-heap starter, but Myrow is a very underrated talent. His name briefly came up over the winter as a candidate for the Yankee third base […]

Every once in a while, I like to stroll on over to Doug’s Stats. Doug provides a wonderful service to baseball fans — he has built a program that pulls each day’s box scores and turns them into baseball stats for display on his site. Now, you can get baseball stats from lots of places […]

David Pinto, over at Baseball Musings, has created sortable tables of our Win Shares data. This is a great service for those of you who want to dig deeper into Win Shares. Enjoy!

Yesterday was an American League day. Only a victory by the Dodgers, and a doubleheader split between the Giants and Orioles, kept the AL from winning every game against the senior league. In fact, the AL has clearly been the better league so far. Even before yesteday, the AL had won 34 of the 54 […]

A Dodgers-Red Sox game is a dream of mine. But not in the regular season. The only time I ever want those two teams to meet is in October. Unfortunately for me, they met today, and David Ortiz hit a walk-off single to give the Red Sox the win, 2-1. It was a really good […]

The individual batting and pitching stats have been updated. Win Shares will be updated later this weekend. Here’s a list of each league’s top Runs Created leaders. First, the American League: Player Team RC Guerrero V. ANA 55 Mora M. BAL 55 Ramirez M. BOS 53 Rodriguez I. DET 50 Thomas F. CHW 49 Young […]

The Team graphs and stats have been updated through games of June 10. Here are a few observations: – The Expos continue to be very good at preventing runs and terrible at scoring runs, messing up my NL graphs. Actually, the run prevention part is interesting. Their FIP is slightly below average, but their DER […]

Two major league pitchers named Zambrano had fine starts today. Carlos Zambrano carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning against the Cardinals. I was at Wrigley today with my brother, and he predicted Zambrano would give up a hit after sitting for a long time while the Cubbies scored ten runs in the bottom of […]