January 2006
Beginner
467 pages
14h 21m
English
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Follow the Game Online
Find some cool statistics and charts about baseball players on the Internet.
If you have a quick question about baseball (such as, “What was Reggie Jackson’s batting average in 1977?”), some great web sites out there can help you. Even if you have the data in other places (I have more than 2 GB worth of baseball databases on my computer and a dozen phonebook-size statistics books), you might still want to look up player statistics on the Web.
Player Statistics
There are many good web sites for finding statistics on current players. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Major League Baseball
The best place to start is MLB.com (http://www.mlb.com), the official web site of Major League Baseball. Here you’ll find the “official” statistics (as tabulated by the Elias Sports Bureau) for all current and past players. MLB.com lets you look at spray charts (diagrams showing where every ball was hit by a player) for all major league players. If you’re curious why the defensive players shift positions for certain players, this can help answer your question.
- ESPN
Like most web sites, ESPN.com (http://www.espn.com) has current statistics on every baseball player. But ESPN adds a unique twist: it includes a number of sabermetric stats, including park factors and DIPS. (I explain a lot of these statistics in Chapter 5.) If you subscribe to the web site, you’ll get access to more content, including commentary from scouting agencies and a print subscription to ESPN The Magazine.
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