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The Red Sox send rookie Hunter Dobbins against the Tigers and ace Tarik Skubal. Dobbins started his career well, walking just four batters in his first 22 2/3 innings, helping him to a 2.78 ERA. He has allowed 23 hits. Skubal now ranks second in the Bill James Pitcher Rankings. Since the start of 2023 […]...2025See more Red Sox headline news
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #1: Cincinnati RedsJeff Hanisch-Imagn Images At least you’re not a Reds fan! *Please Note This Is Satire* I usually write serious articles. This is not one of them. Trash talk has been an integral part of baseball since its inception. All the way back in 1912, Ty Cobb ran into the crowd during a game to beat up a fan who was yelling some ... less than savory things at him. To be very clear, I don’t condon...2025Click for news about Cincinnati Reds rumors -
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Hunter Brown and the Astros take on Davis Martin and the White Sox in Chicago. Brown emerged as a star this season, and now ranks 21st on the Bill James Starting Pitcher Rankings, although a Hunter of another color ranks higher. Brown comes in with a 1.22 ERA and 40 K in 37 IP. Martin […]...2025Continue with Hunter Brown news
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• What happened to the clutch hitting from last year?Drew Waters #8 of the Kansas City Royals singles too drive in one run against the Detroit Tigers during the second inning at Comerica Park on April 20, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. | Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Luck of the draw, baby It’s the bottom of the ninth inning. There are two outs. There is a runner on second base and a runner on third base. The batter steps to the plate, hi...2025Visit the page Drew Waters latest news -
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The Phillies visit the Braves with Zack Wheeler facing Chris Sale. Wheeler is simply the best pitcher in the majors over the last few years. He leads the Bill James Pitcher Rankings by a wide margin, nearly 60 points ahead of Logan Gilbert. Since the 2018 season, Wheeler produced fWARs in excess of four in […]...2025See more articles Zack Wheeler rumors
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• Please welcome new writers Connor Moylan, Trenton Kraxner, and Kevin RuprechtOld friend alert! The Royals still have yet to add the big bat to their lineup, but we went ahead and added a few of our own. Straight from the University of Kansas, please welcome Trenton Kraxner. He has written for the University Daily Kansan and will be writing recaps and other articles. Hi, my name is Trenton Kraxner, I am a senior at the University of Kansas currently. I will be graduating t...2025See more Eric Hosmer news and rumors
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #1: Cincinnati Reds
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1934Larry French at spring training for the Cubs on Catalina Island | Getty Images Some important trades happened this year, but not until after the season. The Cubs, after their 1932 pennant, finished third, six games out of first place in 1933. Hopes were high after they spent much of April and May 1934 in first place, but a slow fade was capped by a 12-14 September, and another third-place ...2024Click for news about Gabby Hartnett -
• Today in White Sox History: October 17With 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...2024See more White Sox injury -
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta calls up Andruw JonesBraves 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...2024See more Andruw Jones availability report -
• A look back at the best-pitched games in Royals historyBill 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...2024Continue with Kerry Wood injury -
• 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...2024Visit the page White Sox -
• 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...2024Check it out Fantasy Baseball
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• White Sox can rule — with the Rule of ThreesBBC 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...2023Visit the page White Sox injuries -
• Today in White Sox History: October 17On 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...2023See also White Sox injuries -
• This Day in Braves History: Lonnie Smith has five hitsPhoto 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 ...2023Check it out Lonnie Smith injuries
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• Baseball history unpacked, January 5Happy 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...2024Continue with George Gojkovich
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"Beyond the stats, my favorite quote about it is from the 1984 Bill James baseball abstract: How is it that a player who possesses the reflexes and the batting stroke and the knowledge and the experience to be a ." - 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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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #1: Cincinnati Reds
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• Quarterback similarity scoresCorey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Who is most similar to C.J. Stroud? Bill James is the father of modern statistics in baseball. Published authors like myself owe a debt of gratitude to him that we will never be able to repay. Obviously, most of these statistics are germane only to baseball, but there are some concepts that are portable to other sports....2024Visit the page Three Times salary -
• 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...2024See more White Sox salary -
• The Value of Things: An analytical look at Texans WR Nico Collins’ contractTommy 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...2024Click for news about Tommy Gilligan trade rumors -
• 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...2024See more Garrett Crochet salary -
• 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 EditionIt’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 ...2023Read about Dansby Swanson contract rumors -
• White Sox can rule — with the Rule of Threes
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• What happened to the clutch hitting from last year?
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• Late-night learningSince the start of the year I have been trying to focus on two of my "if it happens, it happens" resolutions. Those two things are to read more books and work on improving my sleep.I work a night job. I often don't get done with work until midnight or 1, 2 in the morning. This is tough on sleep because, as you know, you need to unwind after a work shift -- or at least most people do. For da...2025Visit the page World Series statistics -
• Value of Things: Ranking C.J. StroudPhoto by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Where does Stroud rank among NFL starting quarterbacks? Everyone knows I love statistics and I love what statistics can tell us. There is no greater controversial topic in the NFL than ranking quarterbacks. Usually, it is simplistic analysis that leaves out relevant information that can help us. This article is going to be thorough and hopefully enlighten...2025Click for news about Jamie Squire -
• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1934
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• Today in White Sox History: October 17
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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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• What happened to the clutch hitting from last year?
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• Please welcome new writers Connor Moylan, Trenton Kraxner, and Kevin Ruprecht
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• It's a giftI am in that wonderful between period in which I've opened Christmas gifts but there are more to come.So I hesitated writing this post as there could be more cards to come. But I can just write another brag post later!All the cards I received so far came from my sister-in-law. You've read about her before. She's the one with the magic touch when it comes to selecting items in the card aisle....2024Read about Juan Soto -
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• 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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• 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
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• 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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• 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...2019Read about Marc Carig
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• Corey Kluber Gets Back on Track with an 18-K Start for the Ages
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• 2025 Haters’ Guide to the NL Central #1: Cincinnati Reds
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• Please welcome new writers Connor Moylan, Trenton Kraxner, and Kevin Ruprecht
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• Changes, Toronto Blue Jays
The Blue Jays acquired the following players for their 2025 active roster: Anthony Santander, leftfielder Andres Gimenez, second baseman Myles Straw, outfielder Max Scherzer, starting pitcher Jeff Hoffman, closer Yimi Garcia, relief pitcher Nick Sandlin, relief pitcher In the early days of his Baseball Abstracts, Bill James would talk about batting average as a percentage of […]...2025Visit the page Toronto Blue Jays
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• Value of Things: Ranking C.J. Stroud
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• A look at Cubs trades in the pre-expansion era: 1934
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?
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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 […]...2024See more Tom Tango
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• Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep - February 24, 2024
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• 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 […]...2023Check it out Dale Murphy scandals
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