Baseball

317 posts

January 2019

• BOCCE AND BASEBALL—FATHER AND SONS. 2019-01-24
• AN ACTUAL EXPERIENCE WITH A FIVE MAN INFIELD. 2019-01-10
• ONE OF BILLY MARTIN’S RULES FOR MANAGING. 2019-01-09
• “FEEL” FOR THE UNWRITTEN RULES (COMMENT). 2019-01-08
• EVERYBODY IN THE INFIELD (REVISITED). 2019-01-07
• THE FIVE MAN INFIELD. 2019-01-06
• RANDOMIZING PITCH SEQUENCES. 2019-01-05
• THE ONLY RULE IS IT HAS TO WORK. 2019-01-04

September 2018

• INCREASED DEFENSIVE SHIFTING IS CHANGING BASEBALL FOR THE BETTER. 2018-09-03
• INCREASED DEFENSIVE SHIFTING IS CHANGING BASEBALL. 2018-09-02

August 2018

• A PLAYER CALLS FOR ROBOT UMPIRES TO CALL BALLS AND STRIKES. 2018-08-17
• VERY LARGE PITCHERS. 2018-08-12 · 1 comment
• A DISCUSSION WITH ANNALISA ABOUT BASEBALL. 2018-08-11 · 1 comment
• JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE BIZARRE EXTRA INNING RULE. 2018-08-10
• WINNING A BASEBALL GAME WITHOUT GETTING A HIT OR A BASE ON BALLS. 2018-08-07

July 2018

• BASEBALL DREAMS—FRANK THOMAS. 2018-07-29
• BASEBALL DREAMS—REGGIE JACKSON. 2018-07-28
• BASEBALL AND COMPROMISE. 2018-07-18
• BASEBALL IS NOT THE BEAUTIFUL GAME. 2018-07-17

March 2018

• REPLICATION FAIL FOR A STUDY USING BASEBALL CARDS. 2018-03-02

February 2018

• A BUNT DERBY FOR ALL-STAR FESTIVITIES. 2018-02-26
• PITCH TUNNELING. 2018-02-25
• JAMES JOYCE COMES TO MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. 2018-02-16
• MONEYBALL AND BASEBALL PROSPECTUS. 2018-02-15 · 1 comment

January 2018

• “FLU” AND “FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS”. 2018-01-28

December 2017

• BASEBALL AND GENDER POWER IN PALAU. 2017-12-23
• SOME WAYS THAT BASEBALL IN PALAU IS DIFFERENT. 2017-12-22
• PALAU—A NATION GOVERNED BY BASEBALL PLAYERS. 2017-12-21
• SOME OF THE RANKINGS BY WINS ABOVE REPLACEMENT FOR GENERALS. 2017-12-09
• MONEYBALL COMES TO RANKING GENERALS. 2017-12-08
• WHAT WOULD ROBOT UMPIRES SOUND LIKE? 2017-12-07
• HOW DO FANS FEEL ABOUT ROBOT UMPIRES CALLING BALLS AND STRIKES? 2017-12-06 · 1 comment

April 2017

• OGDEN NASH AND BASEBALL HISTORY. 2017-04-27
• PLAYING BASEBALL USING 19TH CENTURY RULES. 2017-04-26
• THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE BEGINS ITS NEW SEASON. 2017-04-25 · 1 comment
• A BASEBALL POEM BY OGDEN NASH. 2017-04-24
• THE DANNY MURTAUGH STORY. 2017-04-17
• BEER MADE WITH BASEBALL BAT SHAVINGS. 2017-04-12

March 2017

• A BIZARRE BASEBALL RULE CHANGE IS IMPLEMENTED (COMMENT). 2017-03-22 · 1 comment

February 2017

• ARMAGEDDON CHESS AND “ARMAGEDDON BASEBALL”. 2017-02-11 · 1 comment
• A BIZARRE PROPOSED BASEBALL RULE CHANGE. 2017-02-10 · 1 comment

January 2017

• HOW JET LAG AFFECTS BASEBALL GAMES. 2017-01-25 · 1 comment

October 2016

• CATCHING A GRAPE IN YOUR MOUTH DROPPED FROM 101 FEET HIGH. 2016-10-27

September 2016

• DANIEL MURPHY’S GREAT HITTING CONTINUES. 2016-09-05 · 3 comments

July 2016

• IS UNANIMITY AN INDICATION THAT SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG? 2016-07-27

June 2016

• WHY NOT PUT BASEBALL’S “UNWRITTEN RULES” INTO WRITING? 2016-06-11
• “FEELING LONESOME DOWN THERE?” 2016-06-02

May 2016

• BASEBALL DEFENSES—POINTS ON A GRID. 2016-05-29
• ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR DANIEL MURPHY’S STREAK. 2016-05-21
• IS THERE AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY DANIEL MURPHY’S HOT STREAK HAS CONTINUED? 2016-05-16

April 2016

• SOME EVIDENCE THAT DEFENDING AGAINST A HOT HAND CAN BE WORTHWHILE. 2016-04-28
• DEFENDING AGAINST A HOT HAND. 2016-04-27
• PREDICTING DANIEL MURPHY’S BATTING STATISTICS FOR 2016. 2016-04-26
• DANIEL MURPHY—NO HOT HAND IN THE WORLD SERIES.. 2016-04-25
• MAYBE THE PLAYERS SHOULD WEAR DRESSES. 2016-04-19
• SAFETY AT SECOND BASE. 2016-04-18
• THE OLDEST ROTISSERIE LEAGUE HOLDS ITS 35TH DRAFT TODAY. 2016-04-10
• A WHORFIAN COMES TO BASEBALL. 2016-04-03
• THE NEED FOR STATISTICS WHICH DEAL WITH PITCH SEQUENCES. 2016-04-02
• THE IMPORTANCE OF PITCH SEQUENCES. 2016-04-01

March 2016

• SIGNALING IN BASEBALL IS MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN ILLEGAL SIGNALING IN BRIDGE. 2016-03-31
• WHAT SABERMETRICS CAN DO IN 2016. 2016-03-26

October 2015

• APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF FORECASTING TO DANIEL MURPHY. 2015-10-28
• AND A PREDICTION FOR THE WORLD SERIES. 2015-10-27
• THE 2015 WORLD SERIES— DANIEL MURPHY’S EXPERIMENT IN RANDOMNESS. 2015-10-27
• THE EXCITING GAME WITHOUT ANY RULES—FOR COLLISIONS NEAR SECOND BASE. 2015-10-14
• THE TROUBLE I PREDICTED HAS TURNED OUT WORSE THAN I HAD THOUGHT. 2015-10-13
• THE RULE PROBLEM AT SECOND BASE. 2015-10-12

September 2015

• WHY DO UMPIRES LET CATCHERS FRAME PITCHES SO OFTEN? 2015-09-09
• RECOGNIZING THAT THE STRIKE ZONE HAS THREE DIMENSIONS. 2015-09-08
• MORE SUPPORT FOR HAVING COMPUTERS CALL BALLS AND STRIKES. 2015-09-07

August 2015

• FAT PITCHERS (COMMENT). 2015-08-14
• IS THE COMPUTER BETTER THAN THE UMPIRES? 2015-08-01

July 2015

• HAVING A COMPUTER CALL BALLS AND STRIKES. 2015-07-31
• TERRY FORSTER—THE BEST HITTER OF THE LAST 75 YEARS? 2015-07-18 · 1 comment
• THE PESAPALLO SCANDAL. 2015-07-11
• PESAPALLO—THE FINNISH VERSION OF BASEBALL. 2015-07-10

June 2015

• “AMPHIBIOUS PITCHER MAKES DEBUT”. 2015-06-10
• A SINGLETON BEING MISTAKEN FOR TWINS. 2015-06-07
• AN AMBIDEXTROUS PITCHER SUCCEEDS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. 2015-06-06
• JOEY VOTTO TAKES A THREE BALL WALK! 2015-06-02

May 2015

• CHILDREN SHOULD PLAY MORE PICK UP BALL GAMES. 2015-05-22
• “EXPLAINING WHY CHILDREN ARE ABANDONING BASEBALL”. 2015-05-21

April 2015

• BASEBALL GETS MORE DATA. 2015-04-29
• A WAY TO MAKE BASEBALL HIGH SCORING LIKE FOOTBALL. 2015-04-13
• THE RED DOT. 2015-04-04
• HOW FANTASY BASEBALL HAS GOTTEN BETTER OVER TIME. 2015-04-03 · 1 comment

March 2015

• ROTISSERIE BASEBALL AND USA TODAY. 2015-03-24
• ANOTHER ROTISSERIE LEAGUE THAT IS AS OLD AS OURS. 2015-03-23
• THE OLDEST ROTISSERIE LEAGUE? (COMMENT). 2015-03-22
• THE NBA WILL MAKE PUBLIC ITS REVIEWS OF CALLS IN THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF CLOSE GAMES. 2015-03-02

January 2015

• THE COMMISSIONER PROPOSES TO RESTRICT SHIFTING IN BASEBALL—A TERRIBLE IDEA. 2015-01-25

December 2014

• INTEGRATING BASEBALL TEAMS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.. 2014-12-14
• MINOSO, SLAUGHTER, AND INTEGRATING BASEBALL. 2014-12-13
• BILL JAMES ON SLAUGHTER AND MINOSO. 2014-12-12
• MINNIE MINOSO IS NOT IN THE HALL OF FAME; ENOS SLAUGHTER IS. 2014-12-11
• WHAT DIFFERENCE DO STEROIDS MAKE IN ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE? 2014-12-05

November 2014

• NATE SILVER: POLITICAL POLLS THAT ARE NOT RANDOM. 2014-11-26
• BASEBALL STATISTICS “SHOULD COME WITH A MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR PRECISION….” 2014-11-25
• THE FOLLOWERS OF BILL JAMES. 2014-11-21
• HEARING THE BOOS. 2014-11-19 · 1 comment
• THE FIRST TIME I SAW TELEVISION. 2014-11-16 · 2 comments

October 2014

• USING BASEBALL ANALOGIES TO PROVIDE A YARDSTICK FOR COMPARING PROBABLITIES. 2014-10-26
• IMAGINING AN AT BAT AS A COIN FLIP. 2014-10-22
• THE PLAYOFFS AS AN EXAMPLE OF SMALL SAMPLES. 2014-10-21
• MISSING A PITCH CALL BY A FOOT. 2014-10-18
• THE STRIKE ZONE 60 YEARS AGO. 2014-10-12
• TED WILLIAMS ON HOW LOW PITCHES ARE HARDER TO HIT. 2014-10-11
• CAMERAS LOWERED THE STRIKE ZONE. 2014-10-10
• HAS MAKING THE STRIKE ZONE MORE CONSISTENT RUINED BASEBALL? 2014-10-09

September 2014

• BILL JAMES: “THE FRANK ROBINSON SOLUTION”. 2014-09-14
• REVISITING BILL JAMES’S HISTORY OF THE BEANBALL. 2014-09-13

August 2014

• BEANBALLS AND REVENGE CODES (COMMENT). 2014-08-23
• BEANBALL WARS AND ACCIDENTS. 2014-08-07

July 2014

• WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PLAYING A BASEBALL GAME UNDER PROTEST? 2014-07-20 · 1 comment
• TATTOO NIGHT—A “BRYCE HARPER BOBBLEHEADESQUE” SUCCESS. 2014-07-19 · 1 comment

June 2014

• FATHERS AND CHILDREN TALKING BASEBALL. 2014-06-08
• THE ORIGIN OF “THE CATBIRD SEAT” (COMMENT). 2014-06-07
• THE PLATE UMPIRE SHOULD NEVER MAKE A CALL ON CHECKED SWINGS. 2014-06-04
• MIKE SCHMIDT—UMPIRES SHOULD NOT CALL BALLS AND STRIKES. 2014-06-03
• SUGGESTIONS FOR BASEBALL BROADCASTS. 2014-06-02
• WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG FOR BASEBALL TO START USING ALL THOSE SHIFTS? 2014-06-01

May 2014

• A SMALL VICTORY FOR WHITE SOX FANS. 2014-05-21
• THE CATBIRD SEAT—THE BLOG. 2014-05-11 · 1 comment
• THE “INTERESTING ACTION” BETWEEN PITCHER AND BATTER”. 2014-05-10
• ARE THERE TOO MANY STRIKE OUTS IN BASEBALL? 2014-05-09 · 1 comment
• SMALL SAMPLE PROBLEMS—AND MONEYBALL. 2014-05-08

April 2014

• REPLAY CAN’T COUNT BALLS AND STRIKES CORRECTLY. 2014-04-23
• PITCH FRAMING—WHAT ABOUT THE POOR BATTER? 2014-04-19
• HOW IMPORTANT ARE UMPIRE ERRORS ON BALLS AND STRIKES? 2014-04-19
• THE IMPORTANCE OF PITCH FRAMING. 2014-04-18
• HOW CATCHERS FRAME PITCHES. 2014-04-17
• MOST PITCHES IN AN AT BAT—LUKE APPLING. 2014-04-16
• WHAT FRAMING A PITCH DOES. 2014-04-15
• A BASEBALL GAME WITHOUT UMPIRES. 2014-04-07
• TATTOO NIGHT AT THE BALLPARK. 2014-04-06
• POSITIONING AGAINST INDIVIDUAL BATTERS. 2014-04-02
• WHY DON’T MORE BATTERS HIT THE BALL AWAY FROM THE SHIFT? 2014-04-01

March 2014

• OPENING DAY. 2014-03-31
• BASEBALL’S NEW COMPLEX DEFENSES. 2014-03-30
• THE SCIENCE OF THE WIFFLE BALL. 2014-03-26
• THE NBA SAYS IT WILL BE MORE OPEN ABOUT REFEREEING. 2014-03-19
• HOW GOOD A JOB DO UMPIRES DO IN CALLING BALLS AND STRIKES? 2014-03-18
• PAUL BLAIR’S JUMPS. 2014-03-16
• MEASURING JASON HEYWARD’S JUMP ON A BALL. 2014-03-15
• BIG DATA COMES TO MONEYBALL. 2014-03-14
• GEORGE CARLIN ON GOING HOME. 2014-03-04
• THE SYMBOLISM OF HOME PLATE. 2014-03-03
• BASEBALL DECIDES NOT TO OUTLAW HOME PLATE COLLISIONS. 2014-03-02

January 2014

• REFORM—REDUCING COLLISIONS AT HOME PLATE. 2014-01-02

December 2013

• MVP—AN AWARD TREASURED BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS (COMMENT). 2013-12-19
• MY FAVORITE MVP INJUSTICE. 2013-12-19

October 2013

• NONFICTION VERSUS FICTION—42. 2013-10-28
• NICHOLS AND MAY AND THE RHODE ISLAND ACCENT. 2013-10-26
• ADOPTING COLLEGE RULES ON BASEBALL COLLISIONS. 2013-10-20
• INSTANT REPLAY AND PHANTOM DOUBLE PLAYS. 2013-10-19
• NEW SUCCESS FOR MONEYBALL. 2013-10-02

September 2013

• HOW IMPORTANT IS STRENGTHENING A WEAKNESS? 2013-09-12

August 2013

• A PREDICTION ON HOW INSTANT REPLAY WILL CHANGE BASEBALL. 2013-08-28
• A SUGGESTION FOR SABERMATRICIANS—STANDARDIZING WAR. 2013-08-22
• TROUT VERSUS CABRERA—2013 (COMMENT). 2013-08-21 · 1 comment
• HOW JOHN UPDIKE WATCHED BASEBALL. 2013-08-19
• THE PACE OF BASEBALL IS JUST FINE. 2013-08-19
• GOOD NEWS—MORE INSTANT REPLAY FOR BASEBALL. 2013-08-18 · 1 comment

July 2013

• WHY NOT PLAY THE GAME UNDER PROTEST? 2013-07-26
• CATCHING A BASEBALL DROPPED FROM A HELICOPTER. 2013-07-16
• CATCHING A GRAPEFRUIT DROPPED FROM A GREAT HEIGHT. 2013-07-16

June 2013

• YU DARVISH’S DECEPTIVE MOTION. 2013-06-06
• MIGUEL CABRERA’S PLATE COVERAGE. 2013-06-06

May 2013

• HOW THE WHITE SOX-CUB RIVALRY CHANGED NELSON ALGREN’S LIFE. 2013-05-30
• OF COURSE, THERE’S A WHITE SOX—CUBS RIVALRY. 2013-05-28
• WHAT HOCKEY GETS RIGHT ABOUT DANGEROUS PLAYS. 2013-05-08
• GATSBY GOES TO A BASEBALL GAME. 2013-05-02

April 2013

• NONUNIFORM BASEBALLS (COMMENT). 2013-04-24
• BASEBALL’S SECRET RUBBING MUD. 2013-04-21
• HOW BASEBALLS ARE MADE. 2013-04-20 · 1 comment

March 2013

• HOW DID THE ORIOLES DO IT LAST YEAR? 2013-03-07 · 1 comment
• SHORTENING A BASEBALL GAME TO SIX INNINGS. 2013-03-06
• EARL WEAVER AND GENE MAUCH AND SABERMETRICS. 2013-03-05

February 2013

• NEW SUPPORT FOR REDUCING BASEBALL COLLISIONS 2013-02-28
• HOW I READ THE NEWS. 2013-02-27

January 2013

• SABERMETRICS AND SCRABBLE—VALUE OVER REPLACEMENT TILE. 2013-01-28
• SHOULD THE VALUES OF SCRABBLE LETTERS BE CHANGED? 2013-01-27
• SUNK COSTS—CHASE HEADLEY AND MARK SANCHEZ. 2013-01-24
• THE HALL OF FAME VOTING. 2013-01-11
• BRANCH RICKEY, PIONEERING SABERMETRICIAN. 2013-01-09
• SABERMETRICS 50 YEARS AGO. 2013-01-08

December 2012

• HOW TO RIG STATISTICAL EXPERIMENTS. 2012-12-28
• SHOWING A KNUCKLEBALL KNUCKLING. 2012-12-26
• PRECISE DATA FOR A SINGLE PITCH. 2012-12-08
• RARE EVENTS—HITTING A BASEBALL THREE TIMES WITH ONE SWING. 2012-12-07

November 2012

• ANOTHER LANDMARK EVENT. 2012-11-20
• WHAT MAKES FOR AN MVP? 2012-11-17 · 1 comment
• TRADITION OVER SABERMETRICS—CABRERA WINS MVP. 2012-11-16 · 3 comments

October 2012

• MY IDEAL DEBATE—TALKING HEADS. 2012-10-22
• MARCO SCUTARO THE HITTER. 2012-10-17 · 1 comment
• INJURIES AT SECOND BASE. 2012-10-17
• WHY DON’T INFIELDERS DROP LINE DRIVES IN DOUBLE PLAY SITUATIONS? 2012-10-14
• A PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE INSIDE FLY RULE (COMMENT). 2012-10-13
• MONEYBALL AND THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD. 2012-10-05
• CABRERA OR TROUT?—IT’S STILL BASEBALL SEASON (COMMENT). 2012-10-04 · 12 comments

September 2012

• SPAGHETTI WESTERN BASEBALL BROADCASTS. 2012-09-24
• THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS—BASEBALL. 2012-09-06
• BASEBALL HISTORY AS AN INTERNET GAME. 2012-09-05 · 1 comment

August 2012

• JEAN SHEPHERD’S LOU GEHRIG STORY. 2012-08-22
• MOE BERG IN JAPAN. 2012-08-21
• THE AIRPLANE STORY. 2012-08-19
• LEFTY. 2012-08-17

July 2012

• KNUCKLEBALL PITCHERS. 2012-07-15

June 2012

• THE NUN. 2012-06-20
• WHERE A BALL HIT INTO THE STAIRWELL IS A GROUND RULE DOUBLE. 2012-06-16

April 2012

• THE MOST IMPORTANT EPISODE OF THE SIMPSONS ? (COMMENT). 2012-04-20 · 1 comment

February 2012

• A GREAT PHILOSOPHER ON BASEBALL AS A RELIGION. 2012-02-20
• THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE STARTS ITS 32ND SEASON. (COMMENT). 2012-02-19 · 10 comments

January 2012

• WHEN ARE SUNK COSTS SUNK? 2012-01-03
• WHY SUNK COSTS SHOULD BE IGNORED. 2012-01-02 · 2 comments

December 2011

• MY FAVORITE HOAX. 2011-12-20

October 2011

• MONEYBALL AND PIG FARMING. 2011-10-30
• ALBERT PUJOLS SHOWS LEADERSHIP. 2011-10-23
• WAS THE RED SOX COLLAPSE A ONE IN 278 MILLION EVENT? 2011-10-10
• APOPHENIA AND SPORTS JOURNALISM. 2011-10-09
• APOPHENIA—THE CARTOON. 2011-10-08

September 2011

• THE STORY OF A LONG SEASON. 2011-09-27
• WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE BASEBALL MOVIE? 2011-09-27 · 3 comments
• MONEYBALL AND STORYTELLING. 2011-09-26

August 2011

• POETRY AND BASEBALL. 2011-08-14 · 2 comments
• POETRY AND BASEBALL. 2011-08-13 · 2 comments

June 2011

• VEECK AS IN WRECK. 2011-06-19
• THE MIDGET WHO BATTED IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES. 2011-06-18

May 2011

• WHY NOT LET FIELDERS BLOCK EVERY BASE? 2011-05-28
• REDUCING INJURIES AT HOME PLATE. 2011-05-28 · 1 comment
• HU’S ON FIRST. 2011-05-08

April 2011

• ROOMS WITH “FLOW.” 2011-04-22
• A PICKOFF PLAY AT THIRD BASE! 2011-04-10
• A PROPOSAL FOR A BASEBALL RULE CHANGE. 2011-04-09 · 3 comments

March 2011

• THE PERSISTENCE OF THE HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE. 2011-03-05

January 2011

• WHITE SOX IN BASEBALL, PACKERS IN FOOTBALL (COMMENT). 2011-01-26

December 2010

• UNUSUAL BALLPARKS—“THE SMEAD JOLLEY STORY.” 2010-12-15
• A LARGE TREE IN THE OUTFIELD. 2010-12-09

November 2010

• ODD PLAYING FIELDS SHAPING ATHLETES. 2010-11-28
• PLAYING AROUND OBSTACLES. 2010-11-28
• BEING MISTAKEN FOR LUIS TIANT. 2010-11-21
• THE SIMPSONS RECOGNIZE BILL JAMES. 2010-11-12 · 2 comments

September 2010

• IGNORING THE RULE BOOK—UMPIRES AND MANAGERS. 2010-09-08 · 2 comments

August 2010

• THE QUIRKINESS OF TARGET FIELD. 2010-08-16
• DESIGNING A QUIRKY STADIUM. 2010-08-15

July 2010

• BREW ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE—REVISITED. 2010-07-06
• “THIS IS THE WAY OLD ‘CASEY’ STENGEL RAN….” 2010-07-02

June 2010

• THE ONLY GOOD ARGUMENT AGAINST INSTANT REPLAY IN BASEBALL. 2010-06-30
• “…AND THE GAME GOES ON FOREVER.” 2010-06-25
• WELL PLAYED. 2010-06-24
• 70 TO 68. 2010-06-24
• DOMED STADIUMS AND PINBALL MACHINES. 2010-06-23 · 1 comment
• LOUD STADIUMS. 2010-06-23
• THE AESTHETICS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION. 2010-06-18
• ARMANDO GALARRAGA—THE NEED FOR REPLAY. 2010-06-02 · 1 comment

May 2010

• DIFFERENT STRIKE ZONES FOR DIFFERENT BATTERS? 2010-05-04

April 2010

• SELLING A CALL. 2010-04-20
• MY FAVORITE BASEBALL MOVIE. 2010-04-19 · 2 comments
• HARD TIMES FOR UMPIRES. 2010-04-18
• REVIEWING THE PERFORMANCE OF UMPIRES. 2010-04-10 · 3 comments

March 2010

• MAYBE THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS ROTISSERIE LEAGUE? 2010-03-24 · 6 comments
• FANTASY BASEBALL AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. 2010-03-23
• ARE SOME BATTERS BETTER AT FOULING OFF PITCHES? 2010-03-22
• A NEW EMPHASIS ON DEFENSE? 2010-03-10
• THE SEATTLE MARINERS DEFENSE. 2010-03-03 · 1 comment
• A MONEYBALL TRADE IN RETROSPECT. 2010-03-02 · 1 comment
• PICKING BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO HAVE A “GOOD FACE.” 2010-03-01 · 1 comment

February 2010

• TYRUS THOMAS—DEFENSE VERSUS OFFENSE. 2010-02-20 · 2 comments

November 2009

• SABERMETRICS COMES TO SOCCER. 2009-11-23
• AN ARGUMENT FOR MAKING REFEREE REVIEWS PUBLIC IN SOCCER. 2009-11-22
• INSTANT REPLAY IMMEDIATELY (COMMENT). 2009-11-01 · 1 comment

October 2009

• CANDYLAND AND BASEBALL. 2009-10-13 · 2 comments

September 2009

• THE REMARKABLE MOE BERG (COMMENT). 2009-09-29
• THE WIND BLEW OUT ONLY WHEN THE HOME TEAM WAS AT BAT. 2009-09-23
• FAREWELL TO THE BIGGEST HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE OF THEM ALL. 2009-09-23
• MOE BERG REVISITED. 2009-09-21

August 2009

• BALLET TRAINING FOR ATHLETES. 2009-08-19

July 2009

• FRONTIERS IN BASEBALL STATISTICS. 2009-07-15
• MARILYN MONROE AND JOE DIMAGGIO. 2009-07-08
• LUCK AND THE WORLD SERIES. 2009-07-08
• BASEBALL STREAKS AND MUSCLE MEMORY. 2009-07-08
• DIMAGGIO DID IT TWICE. 2009-07-07

June 2009

• USEFUL PHRASES–“MISERY POKER.” 2009-06-16 · 3 comments

May 2009

• EVERYBODY IN THE INFIELD. 2009-05-29
• AN UMPIRE MAKES HIS RATING KNOWN. 2009-05-28
• OPTICAL ILLUSIONS AND CURVE BALLS. 2009-05-16

April 2009

• ACTS OF KINDNESS—J. R. RICHARD. 2009-04-27
• THE HARDEST THROWER IN THE MAJORS. 2009-04-27

March 2009

• WHEN EACH UMPIRE MADE HIS OWN RULES. 2009-03-29
• IMPROVING UMPIRE PERFORMANCE. 2009-03-29
• SCAMS: FLOOD PREPARATION. 2009-03-28
• IT’S NOT ONLY MADOFF: ATHLETES AND INVESTMENT SCAMS. 2009-03-28 · 1 comment
• BASEBALL DEFENSIVE STATISTICS. 2009-03-04

February 2009

• STEROIDS AND THE PLAYERS UNION. 2009-02-20

November 2008

• MONEYBALL AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. 2008-11-16 · 2 comments

October 2008

• FIVETHIRTYEIGHT (COMMENT). 2008-10-31
• THE EXCITING GAME WITHOUT ANY RULES. 2008-10-29
• ARE TWINS BETTER IN SOME SPORTS THAN IN OTHERS? 2008-10-27

September 2008

• SCOTT FITZGERALD, CRITIC. 2008-09-17
• BENJAMIN BUTTON–THE IMPOSSIBLE PLOT. 2008-09-16
• BREW ANOTHER POT OF COFFEE. 2008-09-07 · 1 comment
• “DO YOU WANT TO GO BOWLING?” 2008-09-05

June 2008

• THE GREATEST CATCH THAT WAS NEVER MADE. 2008-06-25

May 2008

• POPULAR DISSATISFACTION WITH UMPIRING. 2008-05-31
• CAL MCLISH. 2008-05-12

February 2008

• STEROIDS, BASEBALL AND HUNGER ARTISTS. 2008-02-12 · 3 comments

January 2008

• YOU CAN INVEST IN A PITCHER’S EARNINGS. 2008-01-24

December 2007

• AN ECONOMIST CALLS FOR MAKING REFEREE EVALUATIONS PUBLIC. 2007-12-21 · 2 comments
• BASEBALL AND FICTION WRITERS. 2007-12-09

October 2007

• OZZIE AND FREE PIZZA. 2007-10-03
• GO, CUBS! 2007-10-01 · 2 comments

July 2007

• BASEBALL PROSPECTUS. 2007-07-27
• UMPIRE RATINGS. 2007-07-27 · 5 comments

March 2007

• WHY WHITE SOX AND CUB FANS AND DANES ARE HAPPY. 2007-03-25 · 5 comments
• WHAT I HAVE IN COMMON WITH NORMAN MAILER. 2007-03-19 · 1 comment

January 2007

• DO BASEBALL PLAYERS HAVE HOT STREAKS? 2007-01-29