Cybermetrics

This is a guest post by Tom Ruane of Retrosheet In looking at the standings the other day, I noticed that there didn't seem to be many g...

So far he as an OPS of .750 while the league OPS is .702. So that is a good year but not the kind of great season he has always had. He has ...

Brian McCann just did it a couple of days ago (pinch hitting in the 9th). I asked HR expert David Vincent (of SABR and Retrosheet) "Do...

For the first week of May (as I reported last week), the AL had an OPS of .681 and the NL had .674. So that means this past week was better....

Was it the weather? I sure don't know. Both leagues have an OPS 20 points lower in May than April. Here the stats for April and May so f...

Yes, hard to believe that Willie Mays is 80. But no one knew he was the "Greatest All-Around Player" until last December when I cr...

This was posted to the SABR list by Tom Ruane who does great work for Retrosheet. After 29 games, both Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman of th...

It seems like alot of people have noticed the low offensive output this past month. So I am basically just posting some numbers without much...

This came up again recently with Ex-Angel Grich is a no-brainer Hall of Famer By SAM MILLER of THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. Hat tip goes to ...

On Monday night before the Brewers game, a commentator on ESPN said something like "now that Fielder is entering his prime years, his n...

Since he is in the news, I thought it would be good to revisit. I have written about this before and there are some links below. This table ...

See Are Twins Taking "Pitching To Contact" Too Far? by Rob Neyer. To look at this, I calculated the batting average and slugging ...

Rob Neyer's Measuring Minnie Minoso's Hall Of Fame Case got me thinking about this. He might have enough peak value using WAR. His ...

Just checked at Baseball Reference and so far the league SLG is .449. That would break the record for a whole league of .448 set by the NL i...

I am not sure he should have gotten it in either year, but if he had to get it, 1960 was actually the better choice. This is inspired by Bas...

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When a star pitcher goes down with an injury, a team must get someone else to pitch. That new guy is called a replacement pitcher. To see ho...

I raise this issue because it came up the other day at "The Hardball Times." See Visual Baseball: Blyleven vs. (dare I say) Koufa...

I used data from David Pinto's Day-by-Day Database. I found all the pitchers who had 2500+ PAs with runners on base (ROB) and no runners...

See Black: ‘We’re more balanced’ . (Hat Tip: Baseball Think Factory). Click here to go their discussion . Here is what Black said: "Th...

Part 1 was a couple of weeks ago, when I only looked at one pair of years. I have now done 5 pairs of years. Low correlations indicate that ...

SABR member Steve Fall presented his research on this at the Hornsby Chapter annual meeting. Very interesting. Click here to read more about...

I heard about this from the South Texas Chapter of SABR (Hornsby Chapter). Jan Larson said that author and chapter member Norman Macht , aut...

Low correlations indicate that pitchers tend not to be clutch one year and again clutch the next year. I looked at all pitchers that had at ...

The post below is the few pages from FC Lane's book called "Batting" that dealt with the batting order. Whether or not it matc...

The table below shows the top 15 pitchers in strikeout-to-walk ratio since 1955 with 1000+ IP. For walks I used BB + HBP - IBB (which is ca...

This is a post about trying to get to the bottom of some mythic stories. Stories that sound good but don't seem to stand up to scrutiny....

Click here to read what Rob has to say . He lays out a good case for Brown. Here is some info on Brown I posted recently at Baseball Think F...

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...