Cybermetrics

The Wall Street Journal had an article about this recently called Baseball's Luckiest Team . It mentioned some things like their AVG wit...

Last Sunday one of the announcers on the TBS game said that Devon White became a good leadoff hitter when he came to the Blue Jays (I think ...

There was an interesting post on this at Battersbox: Lee vs. Halladay . One thing they mentioned is that the batters that Lee has faced this...

Last week a commentator on a game (I think it was on TBS) said that the White Sox might have problems in the playoffs since they rely on HRs...

What I posted last week was something I posted on the SABR list last year. At that time, someone raised a question about this. Below is the ...

Since I posted something on HBP's last week, I thought I would post a couple of items that I put on the SABR list last year. Here they a...

I started wondering about this after last week's post on whether or not HR hitters are more likely to get hit by the pitch in recent tim...

I found the correlation between HR frequency and HBP frequency for each decade since the 1950s. In one case the denominator was AB + HBP, in...

Earlier in the season, I did a post on which teams had the best OPS differentials. So I thought it might be interesting to see what has a hi...

A few weeks ago I had a post called Who Are The Good Leadoff Men? . In the latter part of that post I explained a ranking system that is use...

If a fast player hits a ball hard and/or far down the line or into to the gap and there is a runner on first if that runner is slow or not f...

I saw someone mention this idea once, but I can't remember where or what came of it. The question is which player seasons were the most ...

It seems obvious: Hitters who are fast and get on base alot. You also probably don't want someone who hits alot of HRs, since you want t...

Both Tangotiger and Phil Birnbaum blogged about this after there was an article at Baseball Prospectus. One issue is what is Jones' ...

It seems like 2nd basemen get paid less than they should. In trying to explain player salaries when taking their hitting performance, positi...

After losing a third straight game to the Rays last Sunday, Guillen had a tirade, complaining about how players were not hitting and coming ...

Since the season is about one-third over (teams have played 54 games or close to that number), it might be a good time to look at this. I...

Alot of people have looked at this. But I started thinking about it again after I came across some data at JC Bradbury's site. You can v...

Since he already has 9 wins and might get another 26-27 starts, it seems possible. But since 1980, only one pitcher has won 25 or more games...

Berkman, of course, is on a great streak. He is batting .641 in May with a 1.205 SLG. You can click here to see his May stats. So Astro man...

I have written about this before. But the reason I am doing again is that a friend emailed me some comments that her friends had made about ...

In the graph below, I show the major league leader in strikeouts per 9 IP in each 5-year period, starting with 1901-05 and going up through ...

In November 1936, Bob Feller turned 18. That previous summer he pitched 62 innings for the Indians and struck out 76 batters. That ratio may...

Many fans are aware of clutch hitting stats like hitting with runners in scoring position and hitting when it is close and late (CL = Situat...

The ranking can be seen here Pitcher’s Homerun/Walk Rating . In the Bill James Goldmine book he has a section on ranking pitchers just on HR...

Last week I found the all-time leaders in HRs per time making contact. This week I look at the overall rate in MLB since 1955 for non-pitche...

How Well Has Roger Clemens Aged? How Well Has Roger Clemens Aged? (Part 2) How Well Has Roger Clemens Aged? (Part 3) How Well Has Roger Clem...

I found the top HR hitters by dividing their HRs by the times they made contact (that is, at-bats minus strikeouts). They may have made cont...

To see what I have already done, Part 5 . It has links to the earlier parts. Generally, I don't think I am finding any unusual improvem...

To see what I have already done, Part 4 . It has links to the earlier parts. This time I found all the pitcher seasons from ages 33-44 with...