In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...
Sabermetrics -- or analytics or advanced metrics or whatever you want to call it -- are an important and indelible part of baseball these days. They illuminate aspects of the game that traditional ...
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In writing about stealth MVP candidates earlier today, I'm reminded of something Bill James wrote 25 years ago. In 1987, Andre Dawson won the National League MVP Award. Playing for the last-place Cubs ...
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If you’re visiting the pages of Baseball Prospectus, it’s very likely that you’ve watched a game, or a highlight, on MLB’s ...
Why I Love Baseball is a nine week series that will be posted on Tuesdays. The focus this week is on Baseball Statistics I'm horrible with numbers. In fact, I can't do basic math without at least ...
Inning-by-inning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 EX Total ----- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- Arkansas 61 55 53 52 66 43 54 64 27 6 481 Opponents 37 31 32 36 29 29 50 28 20 2 ...
The 2011 hit movie Moneyball, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of how a baseball team used statistics to change the trajectory of their season. It is a story that Eddie Epstein ...