The traditional Quality Start goes back several decades. A Quality Start is awarded to a starter when he pitches AT LEAST 6 innings AND allows 3 earned runs OR LESS. But it has limits. That’s why we’ve created the Quality Quality Start or QQS. We use it to find the best starting pitchers, the pitchers who truly impact their team’s chances to win a game.
Statistics have been a critical part of baseball for more than 150 years. The power of data collection and analysis has enabled teams to make informed decisions regarding personnel, strategies, and performance. Since the dead-ball era in the late 19th century, when paper scorebooks first allowed scouts to track player stats.
There were as many distinct varieties of baseball bats as there were baseballs in the 1860s. Early batters carved bats to fit their hitting style. As a result, there are many different types of bats, including flat, round, short, and thick ones.
Greatness score Greatness Score is a way to measure a baseball player by the quality of their individual seasons. For each player we list the total of
The near-great third baseman group named for the guy Nolan Ryan beat up.
The 3,000 Hit Club Cap Anson DATE OF 3,000th HIT: Unknown Date in 1897 Only player to collect 3,000 hits in the 19th century… Held all-time hit
Here we are back with the second installment in a series called “Greatness Score,” a system I devised to help rate the candidacy of players for the
How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit? Which teams did Ty Cobb play for? Did Barry Bonds use steroids? These are all questions that baseball fans
One of the annoying things you’ll hear people say when they argue about the Hall of Fame is this: “So and so is a Hall of Famer.
The American League was formed in 1901 with eight teams. Except for the first two years when New York did not have an AL team, the eight
A list of the living members (elected as players) of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
All-Time Pitcher WAR Rankings List of PITCHERS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which pitcher had the most Career WAR? Which pitcher in baseball history had the most
All-Time Right Fielder WAR Rankings List of RIGHT FIELDERS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Right Fielder had the most Career WAR? Which od baseball’s Right Fielders
All-Time Center Fielder WAR Rankings List of CENTER FIELDERS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Center Fielder had the most Career WAR? Which Center Fielder had the
All-Time Left Fielder WAR Rankings List of LEFT FIELDERS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Left Fielder had the most Career WAR? Which Left Fielder had the
All-Time Third Base WAR Rankings List of THIRD BASEMEN ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Third Baseman had the most Career WAR? Which had the most WAR
All-Time Shortstop WAR Rankings List of SHORTSTOPS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which of baseball’s Shortstops had the most Career WAR? Which Shortstop had the most WAR
All-Time Second Base WAR Rankings List of SECOND BASEMEN ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Second Baseman had the most Career WAR? Which had the most WAR
All-Time First Base WAR Rankings List of FIRST BASEMEN ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which First Baseman had the most Career WAR? Which First Baseman had the
All-Time Catcher WAR Rankings List of CATCHERS ranked by Wins Above Replacement. Which Catcher had the most Career WAR? Which Catcher had the most WAR in his
Dave Roberts may have thought he was doing Clayton Kershaw’s legacy a favor when he kept the pitcher in Game Five of the 2019 NLDS to start
The headline is click bait. Of course defensive matters in baseball. Doesn’t it? I’m writing this article because I noticed strange things while browsing Baseball-Reference.com recently. From
How MANY runs a batter drives in isn’t as important as how many opportunities he has and how many he converts.
After an 88-year journey, the Braves finally made it to the .500 mark again in 2011 after 88 years.