All Articles by Russell A. Carleton

The BP Wayback Machine: Why Are We Playing Hunger Games with Minor Leaguers?

Minor leaguers are probably underpaid.

Table For Two: Previewing the Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves have been undergoing a successful, by most accounts, rebuilding of their organization. It’s just a matter of their deep pool of prospects getting an opportunity and running with it. The good news: That’s usually what talented prospects do.

Baseball Therapy: The First Trade Deadline$

Baseball Therapy: That Thing That Left Fielders Do$

The BP Wayback Machine: The Corner-Outfield Inefficiency

Are teams passing up an advantage by not telling their corner outfielders to trade places based on the batter?

BP Español: Reemplazando al jugador de reemplazo

¿Por qué pagan los equipos un alto precio por “jugadores de nivel de reemplazo” que se supone que son abundantes?

Baseball Therapy: Replacing the Replacement Player$

Baseball Therapy: What’s Wrong With the Free Agent Market?$

Baseball Therapy: Keep on Rockin’ in the Free Agent World$

Baseball Therapy: The LOOGY and The OTTO$

BP Español: Una solución simple contra el hundimiento

No hay gloria en una temporada de .500, pero ¿y si la hubiera?

Baseball Therapy: One Simple Anti-Tanking Solution

There’s no glory in a .500 season, but what if there could be?

Baseball Therapy: Why Relievers Are Getting Paid

In a snoozer of an offseason, why are relievers being snatched up more quickly than other players?

Baseball Therapy: Otto, Tuto, Threeto$

Baseball Therapy: Why The Shift Persists

If The Shift does more harm than good, why do terms continue to use it so often?

Best of BP 2017: We Need to Talk About Defense

We need to talk about defense. Well, not really defense, but how we measure defense. OK, not really how we measure defense, but what we do with it after we measure it. A couple of weeks ago, Matt Winkelman wrote something that questioned how defensive metrics were structured, specifically around the question of how we…