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  • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    With one swing on this day 19 years ago, Albert Pujols made Chicago’s job in the World Series just a little bit easier. | SetNumber: X74419 TK2 The South Siders have to wait a bit before seeing who their opponent will be in the 2005 World Series Chicago Tribune 1923 Manager Kid Gleason, who piloted the villainous Black Sox in 1919 and oversaw the team in the aftermath o...2024
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  • • Pulling Bibee
    Bill James posted a poll on pulling Cleveland starter Tanner Bibee early in the 6-3 Yankees win: The decision to replace Tanner Biibe early in the game (a) kept Cleveland in the game, or (b) just wore out the bullpen to no good effect. — Bill James Online (@billjamesonline) October 16, 2024 I would say […]...2024
  • • Three Times Through
    Over on X there a discussion of how the number of batters faced after two times through the order changed during the years. Is this (necessarily) bad? Or have clubs figured out that there's an optimal point and it's somewhere between 4 and 5? https://t.co/eLliqfc6ml pic.twitter.com/NG3rqV2HLO — Tangotiger ? (@tangotiger) September 24, 2024 Bill James […]...2024
  • Is there hope for the White Sox future?
    • Is there hope for the White Sox future?
    Exclusive imaging of the White Sox analytics department. Other turnarounds don’t suggest it As the season creeps forward to the magical question, “To be 120+ or not to be 120+?” it behooves us to consider other teams that have recently been in dire straits ... though, of course, not necessarily quite as dire. There are four teams to examine that represent a relatively quick turnaround, ea...2024
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  • • Ranking Skenes
    Back on July 30, 2024, Tom Tango and I disagreed over where Paul Skenes ranked among starting pitchers. Tom put him seventh, the Bill James Ranking put him 89th. Skenes is now 7th best starting pitcher in MLB He is essentially on a pace over the next few years to be somewhere between Dwight Gooden […]...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones
    Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Braves record 11 hits off Jeff Tesreau and beat the Giants 7-3. Bill James is the winner while Joe Connolly finishes a triple shy of a cycle. 1971 - The Braves purchase infielder Tony LaRussa from the A’s. 1982 - Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the Padres and move back within 1.5 games of first place Los Angeles in the NL West standi...2024
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Bill James injury and suspension

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  • A look back at the best-pitched games in Royals history
    • A look back at the best-pitched games in Royals history
    Bill James-style. As the years roll by it’s easy to forget about some of the important historical landmarks in team history. One area that’s always fascinated me is Pitching Game Score, developed by Bill James. This score attempts to gauge a starting pitcher's performance and with complete games becoming a rarity, I wanted to look back at the Royals’ highest Game Score ever. Here is the formula de...2024
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  • Let’s beat that dead horse for 3-3-3 once again!
    • Let’s beat that dead horse for 3-3-3 once again!
    Because some might be offended by an image of an actual beating of a dead horse, here instead is an appealing view of Dead Horse Point Park in Utah. | discovermoab.com The 2024 White Sox are the perfect team to innovate with its pitching rotation Yes, yes, I know. I’ve promoted the 3-3-3 pitching rotation before, as recently as the trading deadline last year after the White Sox sent off m...2024
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  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
    RPs w/ Rosterable Ratios (+ Two NL Hitters) Relief pitching is a combustible commodity (they're the RBs of fantasy baseball) but using late picks on the proper RPs can help to fortify your pitching. RPs with high SwStr%* and K/9 can add helpful 2x a week dominance. A Rosterable Ratio RP may not provide many saves, but they can add surprisingly high strikeout totals and sneaky wins here and there t...2024
  • White Sox can rule — with the Rule of Threes
    • White Sox can rule — with the Rule of Threes
    BBC iPLAYER Never before has any team been more likely to benefit If necessity is the mother of invention, then the mother of necessities calls for the mother of inventions. And boy, do the White Sox face the mother of necessities. Enter the the 3-3-3 system of pitcher rotation, as first put forth by Bill James cohort Dave Fleming in 2009. I’ve written about it twice before, including onc...2023
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  • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    • Today in White Sox History: October 17
    On this day 100 years ago, Kid Gleason stepped away from the rebuilding White Sox. | Chicago Tribune A century ago, Kid Gleason stepped away from his sinking club Chicago Tribune 1923 Manager Kid Gleason, who piloted the villainous Black Sox in 1919 and oversaw the team in the aftermath of eight core members of the roster banned for life, resigned. He spoke to his te...2023
  • This Day in Braves History: Lonnie Smith has five hits
    • This Day in Braves History: Lonnie Smith has five hits
    Photo by M Digirolamo/Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914 - The Braves record 11 hits off Jeff Tesreau and beat the Giants 7-3. Bill James is the winner while Joe Connolly finishes a triple shy of a cycle. 1971 - The Braves purchase infielder Tony LaRussa from the A’s. 1982 - Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over ...2023
  • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    Can’t say I care for the Red Sox city connect jerseys. I mean, they’re fine-ish, just not for Boston | Photo by Nick Grace/Getty Images Out last week, out next week, but here this week At The Star, Jaylon Thompson profiles Cole Ragans: Sweeney said the Royals did their homework on Ragans. They evaluated his entire makeup prior to acquiring him from the Rangers. The process took a couple ...2023
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  • • Gene Tenace
    Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images The walking man According to Google, there are only 37 people in the United States with the first name of Fury. Fury Gene Tenace is one of that very exclusive club. Tenace’s given name was actually Fiore Gino Tenace, but his grandfather, an Italian immigrant, wanted to Americanize the family name, so Fury Gene it was. That grandfather also tagged...2023

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  • Baseball history unpacked, January 5
    • Baseball history unpacked, January 5
    Happy birthday, Bob Dernier! | Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. A good day for center fielders, several sad passings, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of...2024

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  • 2024
    "At least per game score (version two, a Tom Tango 2016 update of Bill James’ original musing): pretty darn good."

  • 2023
    "In a famous 2006 article for Bill James’ website, John Dewan—who went on to become CEO of STATS, Inc."

  • 2022
    "The Bill James Handbook for 2023 is, as always, filled with the statistics you need to get you through the winter — all the numbers for the current players, plus leaders in both traditional and “Bill James” categories in both leagues for the season just completed."

  • 2021
    "coining a term for his contract, a Bill James tweet about analytics, and Shin-Soo Choo leaving MLB to make his belated KBO debut, share Stat Blasts about all-over-30 lineups and players who’ve dominated one position in their franchise’s history, and then (32:17) bring on FanGraphs […]"

  • 2019
    "But a Bill James creation, secondary average, offers another way to measure offense."

  • 2018
    "Bill James, Red Sox executive and one of the pioneers in baseball statistical analysis, sent out the tweet back in November."

  • 2017
    "Jonah Keri talks with baseball wizard Bill James"

  • 2016
    "Apologies to Nate Silver, Bill James and Nostradamus."

  • 2015
    "But, they also employed salty old baseball minds like Lajoie, Allard Baird (the former Kansas City Royals GM), Craig Shipley (a former major league infielder) and Bill James, the Godfather of Sabermetrics."

  • 2014
    "For must of his 40 years spent analyzing and writing about baseball, Bill James, the godfather of the sport's data-driven "Moneyball" movement, was an outcast."

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Bill James trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • The Value of Things: An analytical look at Texans WR Nico Collins’ contract
    • The Value of Things: An analytical look at Texans WR Nico Collins’ contract
    Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Did the Texans overpay for the standout wideout? There has been a lot of talk on both sides of the Nico Collins extension. I always prefer to wait at least 24 hours for the dust to settle before doing any hard hitting analysis. Analysis and emotion are mortal enemies. Obviously, every move evokes some kind of emotional response. It could range from, “let’s f...2024
  • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    It rarely got better than what Garrett Crochet offered this year on Opening Day. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports In White Sox history? 79th percentile ... not bad for a first career effort Yes, it’s been an incredibly long week and especially endless day, but Garrett Crochet’s surprise excellence on Opening Day — pitching at least one inning and exceedingly sharper than anyone had th...2024
  • • Let’s beat that dead horse for 3-3-3 once again!
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  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, January 5
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  • Book review: The Bill James Handbook Walk-off Edition
    • Book review: The Bill James Handbook Walk-off Edition
    It’s had a run of more than three decades. Usually, in November of each year when I acquire a copy of the Bill James Handbook from the publisher, I’ll review it along with posting the projections for Cubs hitters for the following season. But this review will be different, because the 2024 Bill James Handbook doesn’t have any projections, or really, stats of any kind. That’s because it’s going to ...2023
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  • • White Sox can rule — with the Rule of Threes
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
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  • • Gene Tenace
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Bill James stats and results

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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw Jones
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  • • The Value of Things: An analytical look at Texans WR Nico Collins’ contract
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  • • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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  • • Losing Parks
    Cybermetrics points to a Bill James article that explores the idea that teams that play in parks that favor the pitcher are better than teams than play in parks that favor the batter. A quick synopsis is that the more your park favors hitters, the worse the team plays on the road. As with most […]...2024
  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
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  • • Sunday Notes: An Infielder Only, Carson Williams Has a Bright Future as a Ray
    Plus a Whitaker-Rollins-Utley-Trammell thought experiment. a Bobby Veach-Kirk Gibson opinion, get better Bill James, facts and stats galore, and more....2024
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, January 5
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Bill James parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Today in White Sox History: October 17
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  • • A look back at the best-pitched games in Royals history
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  • • White Sox can rule — with the Rule of Threes
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  • • Today in White Sox History: October 17
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  • • Acuna’s Feat
    Friday saw Ronald Acuna Jr.marry the mother of his children and become the first player to hit 30 home runs and steal 60 bases in a season. I am not a big fan of combination milestones. His 62 steals in 73 attempts is rather impressive. His .337/.419/.574 slash line is very impressive. Bill James came […]...2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
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  • • Gene Tenace
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  • • Outside The Confines: A baseball icon is taking a farewell lap
    Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera says 2023 will be his final season. We are coming to a point in baseball where it is hard to say what players might be capable of achieving the same kinds of feats that those who are taking their final bows were able to manage. I think most of us would be hard-pressed to name the next player likely to hit 700 home runs...2022
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  • • BCB After Dark: Backup plans
    Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks what should be the backup plan at first base. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Oh the weather out there is frightful, but our little club is so delightful. So come on in, grab a chair, listen to the music and talk ...2022
  • • 2023 Bill James Handbook Cubs projections
    And, a review of this baseball annual. The Bill James Handbook for 2023 is, as always, filled with the statistics you need to get you through the winter — all the numbers for the current players, plus leaders in both traditional and “Bill James” categories in both leagues for the season just completed.. But the book is far more than that. It also provides with solidly researched baseball essays th...2022
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Top Bill James news

  • • Theo Epstein Erases Losing Traditions as Baseball's Miracle Worker
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  • • St. Louis Cardinals Boast 1 of History's Best Pitching Staffs
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  • • Kris Bryant Poised to Be MLB's Best Young Phenom in 2015
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  • • 10 bold predictions for the new year
    Apologies to Nate Silver, Bill James and Nostradamus. Here's a regular guy's list of 10 bold predictions for 2016....2016
  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Cardinals' Unique Culture Is One for All, All for One
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  • • Monday Morning Hangover: Do Any Wild-Card Winners Have a Chance Next Week?
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  • • Max Scherzer Carves His Place in MLB History with 20-K Masterpiece
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  • • Zach Britton Can Be MLB's First AL Cy Young Reliever Since 1992
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Bill James fantasy rankings and news

  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
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  • • Report: At least one MLB team interested in 'Jeopardy!' phenom James Holzhauer
    James Holzhauer had made a name for himself by earning nearly $1.5 million during his current streak of 19 consecutive “Jeopardy!” wins, and the baseball fanatic and professional gambler could use his newfound fame to fulfill a lifelong dream. Holzhauer has always been a huge baseball fan, and he was infatuated with the analytics of the game from a very young age. He began at age 8 by creating spr...2019
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  • • Corey Kluber Gets Back on Track with an 18-K Start for the Ages
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Bill James schedule, game

  • • Is there hope for the White Sox future?
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  • • Ranking Skenes
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  • • A look back at the best-pitched games in Royals history
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  • • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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  • • Let’s beat that dead horse for 3-3-3 once again!
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  • • Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
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  • • Gene Tenace
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  • • The Royals have a leadoff man problem. What’s the solution?
    May 12, 2023; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Kansas City Royals right fielder MJ Melendez (1) reacts after striking out during the sixth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field. | Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports They need OBP desperately The minutia of lineup construction is probably overrated. No lineup can compensate for a team with poor hitting talent, and likewise a st...2023
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Bill James rumors, scandals

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  • More Baseball Stuff That Makes Me Lose My Goddamn Mind
    • More Baseball Stuff That Makes Me Lose My Goddamn Mind
    “I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since.” — Kierkegaard Statistical guru Bill James recently laid bare that Tony Phillips has a higher career WAR than Braves poster boy Dale Murphy in a shocking (to me at least) expose. To be fair, James has […]...2023
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  • • Max Scherzer Carves His Place in MLB History with 20-K Masterpiece
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  • • Mike Trout's 2015 Season May Be His Most Valuable Yet
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