Baseball Links and Whatnot

Post #1 » by **Bleeding Green** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:06 am

I thought it'd be a good idea to toss down some links to baseball websites I think are worth checking out. Please do the same. Team specific sites welcome.

Saber-Scouting -- Where sabermetrics and scouting are melted into a gooey mess.
Baseball Musings -- The best general baseball blog on the internet. Plus some really cool resources like the Day By Day Database, Lineup Analysis Tool, and David Pinto's PMR defensive system.
Baseball Prospectus -- Ooh, pretty stats and analysis.
Baseball Think Factory -- excellent baseball analysis. High signal:noise ratio in the forums and blogs. Home of the ZiPS projection system
Baseball America -- the best Amateur scouting website; most of the content is subscriber only, but there are a few free articles.
Cyril Morong's Sabermetric Research -- Various sabermetric articles
Fire Joe Morgan -- Seriously, fire him.
First Inning -- Insights on Player Development
Minor League Ball -- John Sickels' blog on minor league baseball, rookies and prospects
Beyond the Box Score -- Just another sabermetrics blog
The Baseball Analysts -- Guess what they do.
Baseball Reference -- Just the best database of stats around. Plus they have other stuff like a blog, stat of the day and stuff.
The Hardball Times -- More really nice baseball analysis. A nicely organized stat database, too.
Fan Graphs -- Really neat graphs and organized stat database. They keep track of all the projection systems, too.
Baseball Crank -- More nerdy stat stuff. I don't like his analysis sometimes.
Sean Lahman's Baseball Archive -- Downloadable database, and various other resources. Really cool if you like messing around in Excel or whatever.
Met's Blog -- Guess what.
Tom Tango's blog

I missed a bunch so add some.

bigboy1234 · Post #2 » by **bigboy1234** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:29 am

The Book
Perfect Game
Boyds World
PITCHf/x tool

Post #3 » by **TyCobb** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:17 am

AngelsWin.com - Great for exclusive interviews with Angels prospects, Tony Reagins, Arte Moreno, Eddie Bane (monthly), and Tim Mead.

Post #4 » by **studcrackers** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:11 am

newbergreport.com - sign up for the newsletter u get daily updates on the rangers minor leaguers and jamey newberg who runs the site sends out a letter at least a couple times a week if not more

forum.newbergreport.com is the forum for it

o and fyi for bill james fans i heard that this sunday he's going to be on 60 minutes that'll be interesting and will be nice to see him get a national spotlight on how he views baseball etc...

34Celtic · Post #5 » by **34Celtic** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:29 pm

studcrackers wrote:newbergreport.com - sign up for the newsletter u get daily updates on the rangers minor leaguers and jamey newberg who runs the site sends out a letter at least a couple times a week if not more

forum.newbergreport.com is the forum for it

o and fyi for bill james fans i heard that this sunday he's going to be on 60 minutes that'll be interesting and will be nice to see him get a national spotlight on how he views baseball etc...

Remember when the Red Sox hired Bill James and came to the conclusion that it wasn't necessary to have one closer on their team, because stats said so. Ohhhh I love humor.

Post #6 » by **HCYanks** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:32 pm

34Celtic wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Remember when the Red Sox hired Bill James and came to the conclusion that it wasn't necessary to have one closer on their team, because stats said so. Ohhhh I love humor.

Take that, computers! That'll teach you to try to play baseball!

Post #7 » by **studcrackers** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm

i recall a jayson stark quote (i think it was him) saying Saves are the only stat that can completely dictate the managers strategy on how to use a pitcher

i think a closer by committee could work and for a team like my rangers it should be a closer by committee not b/c i dont think CJ Wilson cant do it but b/c i think there bullpen is good enough that they can have a couple closers. plus like some say the most important out can sometimes be in the 7th inning rather then the 9th.

now come back and say the last 3 outs are the most important and hardest to attain

Jakespeare · Post #8 » by **Jakespeare** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:07 pm

Here is a great site for contracts: http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

Here is another site for rumors: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Posey H8er · Post #9 » by **Posey H8er** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:47 pm

This site determines the best possible lineup when considering OBP and SLG%.

Lineup Analysis

Jakespeare · Post #10 » by **Jakespeare** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:24 pm

Here is a great Rays blog: www.DRaysBay.com

SportsWorld · Post #11 » by **SportsWorld** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:26 pm

Yeah if you go to www.sbnation.com there are a ton of great blogs for every major league team.

34Celtic · Post #12 » by **34Celtic** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:54 am

Bill James also said he doesn't believe in "clutch" hitters....ohhhhh the humor

Post #13 » by **Bleeding Green** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:05 am

Go away. This is about baseball resources and links.

You obviously can't offer either.

a-rod · Post #14 » by **a-rod** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:14 am

Bleeding Green wrote:Fire Joe Morgan -- Seriously, fire him.

man, I'm probably the only guy who likes Joe Morgan....

Oh wait That just doesn't sound right :rofl:

But seriously i like Joe he's probably the best color commentator in baseball.

Post #15 » by **Bleeding Green** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:39 am

SportsWorld wrote:Yeah if you go to www.sbnation.com there are a ton of great blogs for every major league team.

Yeah, Athletics Nation is great.

Other sites that I like:

Sox Prospects -- Great source for news on Red Sox prospects. Scouting reports and all that nonsense. Lot of good members in the forum, like Chach.
Replacement Level Yankees Weblog
Rays Index -- Tampa Bay Rays blog
U.S.S. Mariner --Seattle Mariners blog. Lots of other general baseball stuff, too.
Win Expectancy Finder -- Calculate the win expectancy of any game. Home team is up 7-3 with a man on 2 and 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th? Find out likely they are to win.
Retrosheet -- Boxscore data throughout baseball history. They're adding old boxscores all the time. Great resource for career splits for players, too. For some reason other sites don't calculate this. Keeps track of no-hitters, cycles, 4-hr games and various things like that, too. Great site.

I'll organize all the links in this thread to the first post at some point soon.

Jakespeare · Post #16 » by **Jakespeare** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:40 am

www.baseballalmanac.com

Post #17 » by **HCYanks** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:48 am

34Celtic wrote:Bill James also said he doesn't believe in "clutch" hitters....ohhhhh the humor

Actually, from what I remember, James said that clutch hitting doesn't necessarily not exist, but that there's no real way to evaluate/measure it, and that the way people generally try to use "clutch" is nonsensical.

Anyway, make a thread if you want to keep taking bad potshots at James... this thread is for links.

EDIT: I guess what I mentioned is a change in his thinking. Still.

Post #18 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:29 pm

Rotoworld MLB page:

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/home_MLB.aspx

John Sickels site:

http://www.minorleagueball.com/

Dodger Blues:

http://www.dodgerblues.com/

Post #19 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:30 pm

Batter's Box (Blue Jays Blog/Nerdery):

http://www.battersbox.ca/

Da big3 · Post #20 » by **Da big3** » Wed Apr 2, 2008 9:52 pm

heres one www.MLB.com. seirously cbs sports has contracts for every player, even Roger Clemens.....