Dennis Eckersley: The Last Thousand-Hundred Man

Introduction If you pick the baseball milestone carefully enough,…

Maris and Ruth: Was the Season Games Differential the Primary Issue?

This article discusses Roger Maris's 1961 season from a new…

Cubic Players

When Brandon Nimmo took his position in right field on September…

Baseball 1858-1865: By the Numbers

Little serious statistical or analytical research has been…
Aaron Nola

Using Clustering to Find Pitch Subtypes and Effective Pairings

Introduction Using Statcast data, it is now possible to compare…
Nick Gonzales

cWAR: Modifying Wins Above Replacement with the Cape Cod Baseball League

Evaluating a player’s talent, ability, and contributions to…

Multi-Attribute Decision Making Ranks Baseball’s All Time Greatest Hitters

Introduction and History I have taught or co-taught sabermetrics…

Henry Chadwick Award: Mike Haupert

Michael Haupert (1961–) dramatically expanded our understanding…

Henry Chadwick Award: Tom Tango

Tom Tango (1968–) was born in the suburbs of Montreal, where…

Henry Chadwick Award: Thomas Shea

Thomas Shea (1904–95) was one of the 16 founding members of…

Editor’s Note: Spring 2020 Baseball Research Journal

One thing I have learned through my long association with SABR…

Download the e-book version of Fall 2019 Baseball Research Journal

Read the Fall 2019 BRJ on your computer or e-reader! SABR…

Left Out: Handedness and the Hall of Fame

Handedness historically has been of importance to how the game…

Why OPS Works

Pete Palmer, the inventor of OPS (on-base plus slugging), explains…

Rating Baseball Agencies: Who is Delivering the Goods?

In the summer of 2018 Washington Post reporter Jorge Castillo…

Hot Streaks, Screaming Grounders, and War: Conceptual Metaphors in Baseball

Until my freshman year of college, the only books I’d read…

Community, Defection, and equipo Cuba: Baseball under Fidel Castro, 1959–93

Baseball is called America’s national pastime, but in Cuba…

Baseball Archeology in Cuba: A Trip to Güines

Visiting Cuba is like tripping in a time machine. We’re not…

Testing an RPI Ranking System for Canadian University Baseball

University baseball in Canada currently lacks a true national…

Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games?

A major topic for MLB and the baseball press continues to be…

Setting the Record Straight on 
Major League Team Nicknames

Of the major league teams that trace their history before 1960,…

Did MLB Exist Before the Year 2000?

Writers often refer to “MLB” as though it were something…
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