Just passing it along since it was new to me - the site HitTracker has nice information on homerun distances calculated through a spreadshe...

Just returned from a week-long trip to northern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado with my family. The intellectual highlight of the trip ...

The third part of my series of articles on hit batsmen is up on BP. Part one looked at the big picture trends from 1901-2005, part two ex...

And now this from The Onion: MINNEAPOLIS—Sequestered in his parents' basement for the past 18 months, mad sabermetrician Gary Neeman em...

Interesting article in yesterday's New York Times by Alan Schwarz on the controversy surrounding the licensing of fantasy leagues (a bu...

I promised myself that I wouldn't write anything on this topic and was actually feeling pretty proud for not having done so thus far. Gi...

In the latest Cubs debacle on Sunday afternoon Brian Giles of the Padres set a team record by walking five times. However, Dave Smith of r...

A fellow BP'er alerted me to this interesting use of performance analysis in the NBA from the Fort-Worth Star Telegram: Del Harris said ...

Well, an exciting finish at Coors Field tonight where as I was scoring the game as Jamey Carroll drew the walk off walk in the bottom of the...

Hate to say I told you so but the Cubs are struggling mightily to score runs. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that everything w...

In case you missed Will Carroll's Under the Knife column today here's a story about a switch pitcher in Division I who plays for C...

I was lucky to find this excellent post on the Orioles Think Tank related to Corey Patterson. The author runs some comps for Patterson'...

Ok, I noted in a previous post that I was kind of on the fence on the whole Allard Baird firing thing and that it seemed to me that the buz...

As I mentioned in a previous post Retrosheet now has data from the 1922 National League. I downloaded it this evening along with the 1993-...

This won't be as good as Aaron's Link-O-Rama posts but I have run across a few interesting things related to performance analysis a...

My buddy Ron's kids spent a day with Mike Sweeney as the result of a charity auction. Looks like he and the kids had a great time .

Worked the Rockies game today which ended on a single by Miguel Ojeda in the bottom of the 10th that scored Eli Marrero from first with the...

I finished listening to the interview with Frank White on MLN Radio yesterday and was interested to note that White said he had a five-year ...

Joe Posnanski came off his book writing sabbatical to pile on in the Royals debacle. "The Royals have to fire Allard Baird. Everyone w...

My column on BP this week deals with the new aggressive baserunning style of Mariners manager Mike Hargrove. It turns out that as measured ...