Cybermetrics

The stat I used for this was "offensive winning percentage" or OWP. It is a Bill James stat that says what a team's winning pe...

I thought this might make an interesting comparison since I belong to a chapter of SABR in Texas (the Austin one or Hornsby chapter). The po...

There are four graphs below. Each one shows the slugging percentage (SLG) divided by the league average for all 8 every day fielding positio...

A few years ago I noticed that Miller Huggins walked quite a bit yet did not seem to be much of a hitter. From 1904-1916 he lead the league ...

This issue came up on the SABR list this week. Someone suggested that batters in the lineup slot ahead of him were helped by his presence. T...

Gordon had 242 career win shares. Through 2001, that was tied for 334th among all players including pitchers. But he did miss two seasons du...

A recent report called Increase in MLB salary slowed in 2008 shows that only relief pitchers get paid less than second basemen. Here is the...

I found the correlation between strikeout frequency and offensive winning percentage (OWP) decade by decade. I started with the NL from 1910...

You might think so. In both 2006 and 2007 he led the major leagues in "contact average." I define that as hits divided by (AB - K ...

I did this last week but did not adjust for age. The key stat I used is offensive winning percentage, so read last week's post to unders...

Many fans know that Norm Cash batted .361 in 1961. He also had 41 HRs and 132 RBIs. Never batted .300 again (his last year was 1974) nor did...

Last week I had a post on which players had the most consistent careers. One measure I used was a player's yearly standard deviation in ...

I don't know if anyone has ever proved that consistency has value. But I have compiled two lists which you can see here . I took all the...

In the Red Sox-Rays game yesterday, one of the announcers mentioned that Dioner Navarro batted .314 this year with runners in scoring positi...

One was called Analysts: Tough to determine if there is such a thing as clutch by Paul White. In discussing the issue of whether or not som...

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...