Prospectus Feature: The Decision that Decided a World Series
11/03One last look at the decision to hold Alex Gordon, from every angle.
Prospectus Feature: Check Out This Obnoxious Cardinals Fan
10/09It's that time of year: St. Louis in the postseason, its fans in the spotlight, the rest of the country unhappy. We let a Cardinals fan defend the Best Fans In Baseball.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Aaron Judge and the Question of Long-Armed Hitting Prospects
10/08Aaron Judge has long arms. Hitters with long arms have swing-and-miss issues. Do two sentences make a destiny?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Great Octoberness Rankings
10/07What makes a moment slow-motionable? What makes a moment made for soft focus and sepia? What will make you cry this month? It's complicated.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Colin Moran and the Matter of Draft Status
9/23What are we talking about when we talk about disappointment?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Roast A Parks
8/29Many a day has passed, the night has gone by, but still I find the time to put that bump off in your eye.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Downfall of Denny McLain
2/28It was classic McLain: charming, cocky, arrogant, reckless. A rebel or a punk, take your pick, and your choice likely depended on your age and your politics. Just 24 years old, McLain had played by his own rules his whole life, and as the first 30-game winner in baseball in 34 years, he could get away with just about anything.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Eddie Award
2/28The phrase "a walk is as good as a hit" has echoed through our noggins since Little League. Though not exactly true, the ability to reach base without putting the ball in play is a valuable offensive weapon; advances in sabermetrics have enabled us to quantify the value of a walk and hit-by-pitch quite precisely.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: 2003 IHOF Veterans Committee Results
2/26While we wait breathlessly for word from Cooperstown about the results of the new Veterans Committee balloting, the STATLG-L Internet Hall of Fame voters have spoken their collective mind here on BP.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Injury Nexus: A Look at Pitcher Injuries
2/26Between a careful analysis of what data is available, the creative use of proxy variables in estimating injuries throughout time, and the application of some principles of sports medicine, we are at least in a position to make some educated guesses about the nature of pitcher injuries. Our particular focus in this article will be the progression of pitcher injury rates by age.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: PECOTA At Altitude: A Review of Major League Hitters in Colorado
2/21There is enough evidence to perform at least an exploratory empirical analysis of what types of skills are best accentuated by Coors Field.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Touring the Minors: The Pacific Coast League
2/20The PCL is famous for its pinball scores but there are other, better reasons to pay attention to it this year.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Where Does the Money Go?: Taking a Look at Major League Payrolls
2/19Whenever "competitive balance" is debated, the debaters inevitably turn to published information about team payrolls to support their positions. This sounds straightforward. Unfortunately, "team payroll" is a fluid concept. The four most widely reported measures each use different methods and can lead to different conclusions.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Could Relegation Work?
2/18I get a lot of e-mail suggesting that baseball should use European-style relegation/promotion to encourage teams to compete. People suggest it to me in bars. I've read it in columns by otherwise sensible baseball writers. It is easily the most impractical idea anyone has proposed to solve some of baseball's problems, and I am baffled by its continued popularity.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Yankees’ Seven-Man Rotation
2/11As pitchers and catchers report to sunny climes this week--soon to be joined by hitters, beer vendors, and spring breakers--much will be made of the battle for the five slots in the New York Yankees' starting rotation.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Playing the Armchair Arbitrator
2/06No, the most contentious sports battles of February are fought not in football rinks or hockey stadiums, but in hotel conference rooms in Tampa and Phoenix, where owners and agents will square off against one another all month long in a series of arbitration hearings that will be fully nasty enough to recall the high period of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling circuit, except without quite as much hair-pulling.
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