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Baseball-DataBank.org has statistics similar (identical?) to those from baseball1.com but has conveniently placed them in the form of a 33 megabyte file that you can import directly into MySQL. With it, you can formulate pretty simple queries in SQL and learn, for instance, the top 10 players of all time in ABs.. mysql> select sum(Batting.AB), […]

I just finished reading Moneyball, and as I woke up this morning I was wondering what good online information was available on the mathematics and statistics of baseball. Such are the questions that Google was invented for. Little Professor Baseball: Mathematics and Statistics of Baseball Simulation is the first link a search on “baseball” and […]

I received an interesting phone call from my friend Phil last week. I hadn’t heard much from Phil, but he called me in the middle of a ferry ride to San Francisco to tell me that he was reading a book called Moneyball by Michael Lewis, and that he was sure that I’d enjoy it. […]

This morning I was catching up on Baseball tonight to see what went on with baseball yesterday. I mostly wanted to see what happened yesterday when Reggie Jackson’s number 9 was retired over in Oakland before the Athletics-Royals matchup, but in skipping through it, I caught an editorial by Rob Dibble on the state of […]

Today, Alex Rodriguez was traded to the Yankees for Alfonso Soriano. Apparently A-Rod will play third base for the Yankees. I bet the Red Sox are wishing they’d have ponied up a bit more cash and done the deal now. While the Yankees will field quite possibly the greatest offensive team of my lifetime, it […]

What can I say, Boston over Oakland, 4-3 in game 5.

I love baseball, and this is the time of year that baseball is the most fun (except of course for the impending end fo the season). Once again I find the A’s embroiled in the playoffs. My beautiful wife decided that I needed one more game before the end of the season, and the promise […]

After the Giants came from behind to beat the Cardinals on Sunday in a brilliant and exciting game, my wife decided that we needed to go to Game 5. Carmen and I have been to quite a few playoff games in the last three years with the Athletics, and have yet to see a victory […]