We are closing in on being a month removed from the Michigan Wolverines winning the national title and the legendary Nick Saban announcing his retirement from football.
It’s had a run of more than three decades. Usually, in November of each year when I acquire a copy of the Bill James Handbook from the publisher, I’ll review it along with posting the projections for Cubs hitters for the following season.
Sunday’s matinee at the McGuire Center was over very quickly. Okay, let’s hit the important facts: On Sunday, Marquette women’s basketball moved to 4-0 on the year thanks to a 96-36 win against Saint Peter’s.
And, a review of this baseball annual. The Bill James Handbook for 2023 is, as always, filled with the statistics you need to get you through the winter — all the numbers for the current players, plus leaders in both traditional and “Bill James” categories in both leagues for the season just completed..
Royals hitters are finally drawing walks It has been twenty years since Michael Lewis’ Moneyball came out, and over four decades since Bill James began writing that the most important thing for a hitter to do was not make outs.
A look back at the teams that deviated the most from their Pythagorean projections. Pythagorean Winning Percentage, initially established by Bill James, has been a useful tool for measuring how many games a given team “should” have won in a given amount of time, usually over the course of the better part of a full season of baseball.
Here are 20 facts about the film we find interesting, and we don’t care what the scouts say. It’s all in the numbers.
Or “Was Scott Rolen more Phillie or Cardinal, Albert Pujols more Cardinal or Angel, and is Keith Hernandez a Met or what?” Bill James recently took a look at the importance of being associated with one team for Hall of Fame candidates.
In part two of this series, we continue our dive into the Houston Astros‘ 2022 bullpen looking at some detailed numbers and potential roles for the remaining bullpen candidates.
In this two-part series, we’ll take a dive into the Houston Astros‘ 2022 bullpen including some lesser known numbers and potential roles for those returning and the new members.
The music business has one-hit wonders. On the baseball diamond, we have one-season wonders: players who put together a memorable year and then were either unable to build off that time or were essentially never heard from again.
CC Sabathia contemporaries Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander are more celebrated. But when it comes to consistency, few can approach Sabathia over the past three decades, Matt Whitener writes.
Statistician Bill James isn’t a big fan of hype, it seems, and took a swipe at Angels DH Shohei Ohtani on Saturday.
Before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, black players weren’t allowed in Major League Baseball. Before the recent advances in the United States’ relationship with Cuba, it was rare for Cuban players to escape their homeland.
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