Cybermetrics

Each league had its second highest monthly OPS. The numbers for each league are in the table below. The NL's scoring was not that great ...

I am reposting this entry from April 2010 since the Moneyball movie just came out. Some sportswriters still like to make fun of the stathead...

That is the issue raised by an article in yesterday's NY Times Mr. Young, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Rivera Will Be Joining You By DAVE ANDERSON. He...

Cage match. Who would win? I think Bill James would have the size advantage, but I really don't know for sure. Anyway, Nobel prize winni...

ERA 1. J. Verlander DET 2.29 2. J. Weaver LAA 2.41 3. J. Beckett BOS 2.50 Wins 1. J. Verlander DET 24 2. C. Sabathia NYY 19 3. J. Weaver LAA...

Tom Ruane of Retrosheet looked into this after I asked him about it. Here is the link: Best/Worst Month for a Team's Pitchers Tom mentio...

The table below shows some basic stats for each month in both leagues. Hard to sum up September so far. The AL so far has had a big drop in ...

He now leads the AL in wins, strikeouts and ERA. Wins 1. J. Verlander DET 21 2. C. Sabathia NYY 19 3. J. Weaver LAA 16 Strikeouts...

So far this year, the AL is averaging 4.41 runs per game with an AVG-OBP-SLG of .257-.322-.405 and an OPS of .727. 1992 was the last year th...

With Curtis Granderson currently tied for the AL lead in HRs while leading in triples, I thought I would find all of the players who had led...

A guest post by Tom Ruane of SABR and Retrosheet I thought it might be interesting to look at four groups: 1) under .400, 2) under ....

The table below shows the OPS and runs per game for each league by month for 2011.

I'm looking at this because it was discussed at Baseball Think Factory . That discussion was inspired by a new website that is trying to...

He are the monthly OPS figures for the AL starting in April: April .713 May .720 June .719 July .731 For the whole season, it is .721. But j...

This was inspired by a discussion at Baseball Think Factory about an article at Fangraphs called Ryan Howard and the RBI by Steve Slowinsk...

I guess he is the subject of trade rumors. Here are some of his numbers Home: IP-265.67 H-254 HR-20 BB-103 SO-233 ERA-3.79 H/9IP-8.60 Away: ...

That was the title of Gilbert Martinez's presentation at the recent SABR convention. Gilbert is president of the Rogers Hornsby Chapter ...

His ERA is 5.19. The league average is 3.87. Yet here are his AVG-OBP-SLG allowed .262-.281-.341 The league averages are .252-.319-.392 So h...

This is a guest post by Tom Ruane, based on a post to the SABR list. While watching the two teams fail to score for most of the evening duri...

The table below shows these stats over the course of his career. Data from Baseball Reference. These last two years his OPS+ has been well a...

I wonder if this is not that strange. The first 3 NL pitchers used in the game are former ALers (Halladay, Lee, Clippard). The first 4 hits ...

You might have heard of these guys. Halladay. Hamels. Lee. Here is where they rank in WAR among NL pitchers this year: 1. Halladay (PHI) 4.9...

Derek Jeter got his 3000th hit today, only the 28th player to do so. It was a HR, at home, on what looked like a beautiful afternoon in NY, ...

Alot of people are mentioning this on blogs. David Pinto mentioned that he is right up there with Bryce Harper as the top prospect in baseba...

Here are the OPS levels in the NL by month starting in April: .709 .702 .699 .714 For the whole season, the NL has .704. For all of last yea...

It seems like alot of people are wondering how a guy who is 2nd in WAR in the NL at both Baseball Reference and Fangraphs is not on the team...

Last week on the ESPN2 show "First Take," one of the commentators said something like "AROD is in serious decline this year....

Rich has been cited for showing "you can move around the traditional gatekeepers and centers of power" because of his great campai...

See Worley, Phils beat Marlins 1-0 . One anonymous source said "The guy clearly was not pulling his weight." Another said "We...

Bill Gilbert pointed this out to me. Here are the leaders from Baseball Reference: 1. McCutchen (PIT) 5.1 Kemp (LAD) 5.1 3. Halladay (PHI) ...

They had the worst record in baseball on May 6 at 11-22. They were the only team below .400 at that point. In April, they had a batting OPS ...

A pleasant surprise for the White Sox, although it is only for half a season. Humber is not striking out alot of guys, but he is not walking...

The NL OPS in each of the first 3 months has been: .709-.702-.699. The declines seem as surpising as the low levels. And in June the NL has ...

I guess there is nothing left to believe in. It was a great Cinderella story that year and now it is ruined. Click here to read the story ,

...“I wasn’t a closer, I was a relief pitcher,” Gossage said. He made a great point that he was not just the closer, but the seventh and eig...

A couple of weeks ago on a White Sox game, Ken Harrelson said something like "back in the late 70s, when you were facing the Yankees, R...

With hitting pretty low already this year, not much good news for fans who like offense. The AL OPS by month so far April .713 May .720 June...

The PA minimum was 400. This is inspired by “Roll Projector!” Jose Reyes *is* on an Historic Pace from the Baseball Reference blog. They m...

The NL is averaging 3.89 runs per game with a .689 OPS. Their ISO is just .125. The AL is scoring 4.16 runs per game with a .712 OPS and a ....

The MLB OPS for each month was .711. The NL fell to .702 from .709 while the AL rose to .720 from .713. But each league saw runs per game dr...

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...