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Dave Cameron addresses this over at Fangraphs. See Translating Stan Musial’s Numbers into 2012 Norms . He compares Musial's isolated pow...

He is 36th in career WAR among position players. He twice led the league and 2 other times was 5th. By my count there are 147 position playe...

It looks like 12 of the last 13 guys with 3000+ hits got elected in their first year of eligibility. The one who did not is Palmeiro. The s...

The table below shows the top 10 in career WAR for guys who played 50%+ games at catcher Carter actually fell to about 33%...

Probably not. This is a follow up on a post I did a few years ago. See Was Jim Rice A Feared Hitter? Someone on Twitter suggested that he...

Last year I tried to quantify who the greatest "all-around" players were. I tried to take into account hitting for power, hitting ...

He was born in 1926 and named after the great 2B man. He pitched a few games during WWII and played in the minors for several years after th...

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The A's were 107-45 for a .704 pct while the Yankees were 94-59 for a .614 pct. The A's outscored their opponents 858-626 (good for ...

This is a family blog, so I have to say heck. After checking data at Baseball Reference, 1974 looks like the first year that none of the t...

I don't think you have use too many advanced stats or new formulas to make a case. Steve Kornacki comes up with a new metric to support ...

As of August 1st, Barney had 3.3 defensive WAR (in 99 games) and Ryan had 3.2 (in 95 games). But Barney finished with a defensive WAR of 3.6...

That is the Baseball Reference ranking. He is tied with Mays (1964) and Ted Williams (1946) Click here to see their rank for position play...

He has not pitched well on the road this year or well against righties while the Cards hit very well at home and very well against lefties (...

He hit 37 HRs in just 123 games, finishing 2nd to Ryan Braun's 41. Stanton also set the all-time record for most HRs in a season by a Pa...

His AVG-OBP-SLG in Sept were .269-.315-.420. Those numbers are a bit of a surprise and a bit of a disappointment for the Angels given that h...

Cabrerra beat Trout in AVG, .330-.326. If Trout had just 3 more hits, he bats .331. I think everyone agrees that Trout was a much better fie...

Sort of a triple crown. I found only 5 other players since 1901 who led the league in OPS+ and SBs in the same season Cobb Wagner Hender...

Vladimir Guerrero was the first in 2001-2002. Barry Bonds had 3 such seasons and he is the only other guy to do it more than once.

He just hit his 30th HR against the Rangers. Alex Rodriguez was previously the youngest at age 22 (actually a 40-40 season). Trout was 20 as...

He is currently 6th in the AL in WAR. He has never finished in the top 10 before and he is 36 (or was as of June 30). Off the top of my head...

He is the only player with a career AVG of at least .300, 1000+ XBH, 1500+ BBs, 150+ SBs and 1500+ RBIs (Barry Bonds just missed it with a ....

Answer tomorrow. It was fun for me to discover who they were. Two will seem obvious but the third one might not. I imagine alot of people wi...

This is similar to a couple of posts that I did last April. See Who Was The Least Likely Triple Crown Winner? and Baseball's Elite, Its...

Maybe as wise as Fred Merkle. At least the White Sox won't lose a playoff spot or first place finish in this case. Check what happened i...

BR means Baseball Reference and FG means Fangraphs. I don't know why they are so different on WAR. I also don't know if FIP, xFIP...

He is at 9.9, tying him for the 47th best season with Ernie Banks (1959) and Rogers Hornsby (1927). Trout bats leadoff and last year in the ...

They are now tied for 1st place with the Yankees yet they have a run differential of -19. Their record is 76-59 and 24-7 in 1-run games. Her...

The list is below. Only 17 players have dones this and the numbers are only through 2011. Jones still has a .304 lifetime AVG. AROD is down ...

IP 60.2 H 56 BB 21 SO 58 HR 6 ERA 3.26

He now has a WAR of 9.1. Click here to see the leaders . Trout is tied for 94th. Actually 94th-103rd. He also is 2nd only to Babe Ruth's...

Part 2  is below with a link to part 1. I used four stats: one for fielding, one for speed (based on triples), one for hitting for average a...

To see Part 1, go to Who Was The Greatest "All-Around" Player Ever? Another Quantitative Attempt . I used four stats: one for...

According to Baseball Reference, since 1876, there have been 499,590 errors made. So only 410 to go. With 30 teams and about 40 games left f...

I tried to compile a list of the best rookie seasons by WAR from Baseball Reference. See my earlier post from August 1, Does Mike Trout Alre...

That is what the announcer said on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" last night (it was not one of the ex-player analysts who said thi...

He has 24 HRs and 39 SBs in 99 games so far. I called up all the seasons with 20+ HRs and 35+ SBs using the Lee Sinins "Complete Baseba...

10 games ago, I reported that Trout had a WAR per game of .0859 (he had 7.3 WAR in 85 games). He now has 8.1 WAR in 95 games or .0853 per ga...

He has had about .043 WAR per game this year (assuming 4.5 PAs per game). So over the next 45 games, it would be 1.94. If Gregor Blanco take...

Some players are said to have 5 tools: they can hit for average, hit for power, run the bases, catch the ball and throw it. It might seems s...

  BR means Baseball Reference and FG means Fangraphs. I don't know why they are so different on WAR. I also don't know if FIP...

Through yesterday's game, he had 7.3 WAR in 85 games. I found all the seasons with 7.3 or more WAR from 1901-1912 at Baseball Reference....

At Baseball Reference, Barney (Cubs) has 3.3 defensive WAR while Ryan (Mariners) has 3.2. With about a third of the season left, they are on...

Using the Baseball Reference Play Index, I found the best seasons for anyone in their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th seasons. If a player had 130 or ...

The graph below shows the numbers for the AL. Now the NL The trend has also been to a higher frequency of doubles. See The ...

They hit well with runners on base but their pitchers do very poorly with runners on base and both the hitters and pitchers do poorly when i...

The Yahoo Sports baseball page has a feature article on this. It says "New alphabet: Fewer K's, more W's for Nats: Washington...

We are just about at the half way mark. The table below shows all teams. Their expected winning pct is from my equation .5 + 1.26*OPSDIFF ...

This was posted to SABR-L on June 24 by David Vincent. Jim Thome 13 Babe Ruth 12 Jimmie Foxx 12 Stan...

About half way through the season, he has a defensive WAR of 3.4. The current record is 5.4 by SS Terry Turner in 1906. The only other seaso...