M.L.B. is still working to incorporate Negro league statistics, but a popular website now lets fans put some of the numbers in context. By James Wagner On Monday, Baseball Reference, the go-to source ...

For diehard baseball fans, a world without Sean Forman’s Baseball-Reference.com is difficult to imagine. But the site is relatively new; it didn’t grace the Internet until 2000. Before that, for ...

Major League Baseball viewership has gradually declined since its peak in 2007, according to Baseball Reference. Because of what MLB commissioner Rob Manfred calls “organic changes,” the game’s most ...

In the past several decades, the baseball industry has become more enlightened -- thanks to an assist from advanced metrics. Although standard statistics remain quite valuable, advanced formulas and ...

Part of the beauty of baseball lies in its timeless dance with numbers, a rhythm that pulses through every inning, which can echo through generations and etch itself into history. Actually, let’s ...

Why I Love Baseball is a nine week series that will be posted on Tuesdays. The focus this week is on Baseball Statistics I'm horrible with numbers. In fact, I can't do basic math without at least ...

Part of being a baseball fan these days is having at least a passing familiarity with advanced statistics -- i.e., the metrics that go beyond the usual fare of RBI, batting average, ERA, fielding ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...

About a month ago, we received an email asking us to dive deeper into the advanced stats we reference daily on Fantasy Baseball Today. I can understand how some of the analysis can be confusing, even ...

WAR measures a player's value in all facets of the game by deciphering how many more wins he's worth than a replacement-level player at his same position (e.g., a Minor League replacement or a readily ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 29: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees hits a two run home run in the fourth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on March 29, 2025 in New York City. ...