Our first GeekDad Sports fantasy baseball league is less than a week away from the first pitch. Twenty ownership teams of parents and kids are in the process of selecting their players, a prerequisite ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. For the last couple of years, numerous ...

In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

Last summer, an independent-league baseball team in California called the Sonoma Stompers entrusted its season to us, two writers with backgrounds in baseball statistics. We signed players, guided ...

Every fantasy baseball analyst faces the same question at some point. Often, early in the season. When do baseball statistics matter? Since we’re just a few weeks into the 2026 fantasy baseball season ...

For fans interested in learning a little more than the basic statistics of the game, we offer a beginner’s guide to baseball analytics. I’m kind of old, but not really old. A child of the ‘80s and an ...

(The full, nine-inning Playbook was originally published during the spring of 2020. It has been updated for 2021 where applicable.) Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The subject of Christopher Phillips’s “Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball” (Princeton) is baseball, but it’s worth reading for more than just the baseball. The book is an ...