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 ...

Major League Baseball now wants to welcome Negro-leagues statistics into its record books — but the numbers are just a small part of what needs to be remembered. The East team of the 1936 East-West ...

Was there ever a team sport better-suited for statistical modeling than baseball? The heart of the game involves one pitcher vs. one batter at a time, allowing for a dizzying array of individual ...

Negro League statistics from 1920-48 have been integrated into MLB's record book. Josh Gibson is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS. Babe Ruth has long been ...

Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced that records of Negro Leagues players will be included in the game's official statistics, in a "long overdue recognition." Before Jackie Robinson broke ...

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

Robert Siegel speaks with Allen Barra whose book, Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century, uses elaborate statistics to illuminate some of the perennial arguments over ...

Major League Baseball has officially incorporated Negro Leagues statistics into the Major League record, the league announced Wednesday. MLB elevated the Negro Leagues to "Major League" status in 2020 ...

"I know, we're nerds. And some people are like, 'Shut up, nerd, .300 is good!' I get that; I'm not debating that. But there are other ways that we can analyze players − and make them better and try to ...

A deep dive into the stats and trends that further explain why the 2020 season was unlike any before it. The shortest, strangest season in baseball history is complete. That is itself a major ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a year that many would consider a nightmare, a full season of baseball is back. That means a dream opportunity for a Purdue University sophomore who’s developed quite a ...

In more than 20 years of playing fantasy baseball, I feel as though I have pretty much seen it all. I've participated in seasons where a pitcher with a 4.00 ERA was helping fantasy teams in that ...