
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…

Using Clustering to Find Pitch Subtypes and Effective Pairings
Introduction
Using Statcast data, it is now possible to compare…

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…

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Left Out: Handedness and the Hall of Fame
Handedness historically has been of importance to how the game…

Shifting Expectations: An In-Depth Overview Of Players’ Approaches To The Shift Based On Batted-Ball Events
One of the hottest and most polarizing topics in baseball today…

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…

WAA vs. WAR: Which is the Better Measure for Overall Performance in MLB, Wins Above Average or Wins Above Replacement?
Among the many statistical analyses of baseball that have…

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…