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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For diehard baseball fans, a world without Sean Forman’s Baseball-Reference.com is difficult to imagine. But the site is relatively new; it didn’t grace the Internet until 2000. Before that, for ...

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 ...

Last summer, an independent-league baseball team in California called the Sonoma Stompers entrusted its season to us, two writers with backgrounds in baseball statistics. We signed players, guided ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

The baseball executive says that the widespread use of statistical analysis tools has attracted top minds to the game and changed how players are evaluated. Billy Beane looked like a baseball player — ...