Your Average Hall of Famer
Since I started doing research for my C-WAR project, I’ve compiled lots of numbers in color-coded spreadsheets, I figured I should put some of them to use. In honor of the Hall of Fame’s induction...
View ArticleC-WAR Hall of Fame Project: Catcher
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Hall of Fame Project: Left Field
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Hall of Fame Project: Center Field
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Hall of Fame Project: Right Field
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Hall of Fame Project: Designated Hitter
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Top 100
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Top 100 Position Players
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleC-WAR Top 100 Pitchers
C-WAR is a Hall of Fame monitoring system using career and peak WAR. C-WAR is the career WAR(P) totals from Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Prospectus added up and averaged out, plus an...
View ArticleA Hall of Fame Case For: Lou Whitaker
Should Lou Whitaker be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame? In short, yes. Below is a statistical look at how he compares to Hall of Fame averages, and to some of his HOF contemporaries. The chart...
View ArticleA Hall of Fame Case For: Alan Trammell
Should Alan Trammell be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame? In short, yes. Below is a statistical look at how he compares to Hall of Fame averages both as his position and overall. The chart starts...
View ArticleA Hall of Fame Case For: Kenny Lofton
Should Kenny Lofton be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame? For me, the answer is yes. However Lofton finds himself on the borderline. Below is a statistical look at how he compares to the Hall of...
View ArticleA Hall of Fame Case For: Tim Raines
Should Tim Raines be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame? In short, yes. Below is a statistical look at how Raines compares to the Hall of Fame averages, and to some of his Hall of Fame...
View ArticleQ & A with Tom Tango
Tom Tango, sabermetrician and co-author of The Book Playing the Percentages in Baseball, was kind enough to answer some of my questions regarding run expectancy, PEDs, defensive metrics, and the Hall...
View ArticleBaseball’s most exclusive clubs
Twenty eight players have accumulated 3,000 hits or more. Twenty five players have hit 500 home runs or more. Pete Rose tops the hit list with 4,256, Roberto Clemente finished with exactly 3,000. Barry...
View Article62 Hall of Famers That Don’t Belong In The Hall
Given that it’s Hall of Fame season we are hearing a lot of chatter about the Hall. Some of the phrases I keep hearing over and over again are “he falls below standards” or “he shouldn’t be in the Hall...
View Article2013 Hall of Fame Voting Results
Today the BBWAA Hall of Fame voting results were announced. For the first time since 1996, no player received the 75% of the vote necessary for enshrinement. On December 20th, I posted my predictions....
View ArticleMy Personal Hall of Fame
The Baseball Hall of Fame has 208 players enshrined in it primarily because of their MLB playing careers. Over the past several months, I started a project creating my own personal Hall of Fame. I...
View ArticleDiamond Mining the 2014 Hall of Fame Class
The Baseball Hall of Fame recently launched its Diamond Mines exhibit. The exhibit and its corresponding web database have scouting reports for over 4,000 players from more than 400 scouts. The...
View ArticleRethinking the Hall of Fame: Part One Position Players
Earlier this year a few baseball writers including myself set out to make our personal Hall of Fames. We started from scratch and built our own Halls from there. The results varied somewhat but we all...
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