The forefather of baseball analytics believes the reliance on data has gone too far in the sport. Bill James, the sabermetrics pioneer who authored the widely influential “Baseball Abstract” books in ...

Hello, fellow RotoBallers! Sabermetrics have become an integral tool for fantasy baseball draft prep, but a concise resource for understanding the basics can be difficult to find. Today's article is ...

ERA+, FIP, OPS+, wOBA and wRC. What are they, and what do they mean? These stats are some of the many baseball and softball stats that fall under the category of sabermetrics, a better way to show a ...

Welcome RotoBallers to our overview of BABIP (for pitchers). This article is a deeper dive into pitcher BABIP, and is part of our ongoing series "Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball." In this ...

Once again, James was reminded how much better sports are than politics when it comes to applying advanced statistics. "Junk it," James said of polling methods. "It doesn't work." James is globally ...

Baseball has always been about numbers. For decades, fans relied primarily on the statistics that graced box scores and baseball cards to evaluate players. Pitchers were judged on wins, losses, earned ...

BRADENTON, Fla. - Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen didn't complete four innings today, his pitch count causing his removal from the game with one out in the third following Tony Sanchez's RBI single.