Cybermetrics

His career record against them was 28-13. From 1955-61, it was 27-10 with a 3.06 ERA while his ERA against everyone else was 3.42. But did h...

It seems like people who favor Morris over Blyleven say Morris was better in the clutch or better in big games. So I try to look at those is...

I started thinking about this when Cooper Nielson in a Baseball Think Factory discussion said: "I suppose the "best all-around pla...

It seems like it might be for the reasons I have have seen people give the last week or so: no post-season exposure, somewhat short career (...

Here are the offensive winning percentages for NL 3B men for different periods. Data from the Lee Sinins Complete baseball encyclopedia. 194...

Santo did seem to benefit alot from Wrigley. But what if we tried to estimate only his value in road games? Doing a quick calculation to fin...

I used a 5-year period for each guy. For Grove, it was 1928-32. For Koufax, it was 1962-66. The table below has some comparisons: RSAA means...

If you are still reading, thanks. I will try to explain. Suppose a team comes in 1st place, finishing 1 game ahead of the 2nd place team. Jo...

See my first post Rick Reuschel for the Hall of Fame . Here is a brief summary (skipping the more advanced stats I used): -His strike-out-t...

It was unanimous. That seems a little surprising. No doubt among the voters. Here are the NL leaders in WAR for pitchers according to Baseba...

I got started on this because I wanted to see if Albert Pujols did it for the last two years. He just missed. More on that later. I set the ...

I have wondered what things would have been like if the Twins had made it to the World Series. Imagine night games, outside, in Minnesota, i...

That is what a recent Wall Street Journal article says. See Hitting Baseballs, Just Not as Far: Giants and Rangers Win With Contact Hitting...

This is a guest post by Clem Comly and Tom Ruane, based on recent posts to SABR-L. 2010 Giamts ERA for Sept./Oct. regular season was 1.91. ...

I rated each team using the formula 1.7*OBP + SLG. I did that for their opponents as well. Then I found their differential for the 1st half ...

Both the ALCS and the NLCS ended on a called third strike to a batter who has at least one MVP award and one 50 HR season (AROD and Ryan How...

That is sort of the question raised by Rob Neyer at Rangers had 'em all the way . One comment caught my interest. It was from the peerle...

Spoiler Alert! It was on about a week and a half ago, so most fans have seen it or heard about it. The episode was hysterical and I am not a...

We might consider both Halladay and Oswalt to be among the royalty in pitching. Some of the data I present below suggests that. The first th...

This is a guest post by Dave Smith , based on a message he sent to the SABR list. His research on this was mentioned in the Washington Post....

for his applied research demonstrating the properties of spherical objects, Roy Halladay!

This is a guest post by Clem Comly which was originally posted to SABR-L last week. Felix Hernandez notched quality start #30 for the seaso...

Including the last game of the year, their team AVG is .248 while their SLG is .454. That gives them an ISO of .206, beating the record of ....

About a month ago I posted Tim Linceum's Falling Strikeout-To-Hit Ratio . Here are his ratios each month this year starting with April 4...

In his career, here is his OPS for each month starting with April .863 .713 .919 .871 .906 .859 I noticed he had a bad May again this year. ...

Including today's game, they have a .24762 AVG and a .45150 SLG. That gives them an ISO of .20388. That is just actually a little less t...

The Twins are 45-18 since the All-Star break. That .714 pct., as I mentioned last week, was the same one the 1927 Yankees had. The Twins wer...

Go to Does Extreme Home Field Advantage Exist? . The actual title might be "Why Do the Rockies Win More Than They Should at Home?"...

Jeff Passan at Yahoo mentions that Jackson has an historically high BABIP of .413 See Think you know baseball? No, you don’t . It would be ...

The table below shows some stats for their pitching staff in the first half vs. the second half, with data coming from Baseball Reference. T...

The Twins are 40-16 since the All-Star break. That is a .714 winning percentage. The same one the 1927 Yankees had. They were 110-44. The Tw...

I know it really isn't over yet, but the Twins have a 6 game lead. On July 20, the White Sox had a 3.5 game lead. The Twins are 39-16 si...

It looks like it has. They seem to be scoring more runs than their OBP and SLG would normally indicate. The following equation shows the rel...

With all the technology we have, it seems like it could be possible. Maybe a good writer would be willing to try this or someone who works a...

This another guest post by Tom Ruane. The first part was Lost RBIs Of Ruth, Gehrig, Others Discovered Nearly two weeks ago, I sent out a not...

My first post on this was Astros Offense On Record Setting Low Pace . Right now their OPS is .663 and the league average is .727. So .663/.7...

Joe Posnanski recently wrote at his blog the following: "As you have already seen, the only two Hall of Famers who hit home runs in the...

Here are his ratios each month this year starting with April 43/22 = 1.95 40/33 = 1.21 34/33 = 1.03 35/42 = .833 21/28 = .75 (after Friday...

This is a guest post by Tom Ruane Prior to the SABR convention, someone pointed out to us that our box score of the second game of the June ...