Archive for February 2010

A macro look at whether pitching and defense win championships.

Grading each team’s performances for sundry notables. Or maybe potent potables.

How one Hall of Famer filled in for another and launched a third one’s career.

If MVPs were handed out like the old-timey award that banned repeat winners.

If MVPs were handed out like the old-timey award that banned repeat winners.

Adapting the Power/Speed number to see who’s contributed most to both halves of the game. Outfielders and catchers get ranked in this installment.

Adapting the Power/Speed number to see who’s contributed most to both halves of the game. Infielders are covered this time around.

Baseball’s checkered history of expansion may be the real issue in competitive balance.

Reliever man meets Retrosheet meticulousness meets recent metric.

The more modern team wrecks that people chose to see, and the quality teams they overlooked.