As I was perusing The New Bill James Historical Abstract I ran into the article "Bird Thou Never Wert" where James says: ...

When should a major league manager attempt to steal? When should he attempt to bunt? How does that change in the late innings of a close gam...

A fellow SABRite and fan in my neck of the woods shares his thoughts . Good stuff.

Just a quick note on tonight's 8-6 Cubs loss to the Padres. Besides the frustration of the Cubs once again hitting homeruns with the ba...

This is first of periodic sabermetric reports on the Royals and Cubs. Basically, this report is meant to fill in the statistical holes you...

This season ESPN and the Elias Sports Bureau have begun tracking " Productive Outs ". These are defined as: "A Productive...

On my recent vacation in Florida I had a chance to pick up The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers . Wow! In addition to providing an entertaining...

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. The true fan cannot discuss baseball without referring to them passionately and often. For many Am...

This is a question that comes up from time to time among baseball fans who lament that the giants of yesteryear - Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, a...

Both the Cubs and Royals were involved in the last minutes moves at the trade deadline last weekend. In short: The Royals acquired 22 yea...

The BusinessOfBaseball web site headed up by Maury Brown of SABR is now open for business. Some great resources for those interested in th...

A whitepaper Jon Box and I wrote for MSDN on testing for the presence of a network connection in the .NET Compact Framework was just publis...

This is a collection of 30 plus essays on baseball written by the late Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould over the last 20 to 30 years...

Just found out that errors and omissions from the Baseball Encyclopedia that I bought a few months back can be found here . Some fairly sign...

My contention in a previous post was that OPS (on base + slug) is a useful measure of offensive production because of its simplicity, compa...