In writing about stealth MVP candidates earlier today, I'm reminded of something Bill James wrote 25 years ago. In 1987, Andre Dawson won the National League MVP Award. Playing for the last-place Cubs ...

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In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

When it comes to measuring the many-splendored things that happen on a baseball field, we're mostly on extremely solid footing these days. If there's an exception, though, then it's probably in the ...

Why I Love Baseball is a nine week series that will be posted on Tuesdays. The focus this week is on Baseball Statistics I'm horrible with numbers. In fact, I can't do basic math without at least ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...

Sabermetrics -- or analytics or advanced metrics or whatever you want to call it -- are an important and indelible part of baseball these days. They illuminate aspects of the game that traditional ...