In the last few years, a few players have taken large sums of money from teams in exchange for promising to wear that team’s cap at his inevitable HOF induction. The HOF responded to this distasteful practice last year by announcing that they would consider a player’s wishes, but would base the decision on “where […]

Longtime minor league vet Brian Dallimore just collected his very first major league hit… a grand slam off Dontrelle Willis in the second inning tonight at Pac Bell. Welcome to the big leagues, kid.

OK, it’s very early and the sample sizes are ridiculously small, so you’ll need to take this with boatloads of salt, but I ran some quick numbers on the new parks in San Diego and Philadelphia. Looks like most of the commentary about these parks is backed up by the facts; below is the average […]

We’ve updated the division race graphs in the teams section for your reading pleasure. Also, here are some National League teams fielding stats — the number of errors for each team, along with the ratio of fielding to throwing errors. In other words, Arizona has fourteen errors, so far, with 33% more fielding errors than […]

We’ve updated our batting and pitchings stats, through games of April 26th, and we’ve tweaked some of the stats. You can find them in that section called “Stats.” You may not believe it, but the best offense in the American League right now belongs to the Detroit Tigers. They lead the league in runs scored, […]

We’ve now got pitching stats, too. Check them out on our Stats page.

We’ve taken our first run at adding some useful stats and graphs to the site. Check them out. You can view the graphs in the “Teams” section. They include divisional standings and breakdowns of offensive and defensive strengths for each team. The “Stats” section contains our first run at daily stats. Right now, we’ve focused […]

At Wrigley, Matt Clement just lost his bid for a no-hitter on a home run by the Mets’ Karim Garcia in the seventh inning. Clement had just struck out Piazza on a tough at bat, and it looked like he might be on a roll. But Garcia connected to straightaway centerfield. Clement is on — […]

Yesterday, we showed you the batters who have been most successful hitting line drives this season. How about pitchers, you ask? Well, here is a list of all American League teams, ranked by the number of line drives they have yielded per at bat so far this year. BAL .110 DET .132 BOS .140 TBD […]

Which batters have been hitting the most line drives? THT has the data, and following is a list of top ten batters in either league, with a minimum of 20 at bats, according to the proportion of at bats in which they’ve hit line drives. Lo Duca P. .426 Redmond M. .417 Laird G. .382 […]