A Saber-Slanted Baseball Community

It turns out that the Reds are actually very good base runners, perhaps the best team of base runners in the National League.

Joe Mauer is a great candidate for AL MVP... runner-up.. right behind Zack Greinke. But he's got competition even for that.

Jason Barlett's surprising season with the bat might be viewed as either a "breakout" heralding a new level of performance or simply a fluke. In reality, it's neither. But exactly how good a player overall is Bartlett? And how can we estimate it?

Which teams and players have helped their teams the most in the baserunning department? BtB takes a look.

A statistical look at Mets baserunning thus far.

An optimized batting order only gains a team 5 to 15 runs a year, but to buy those marginal runs on the current free agent market usually costs a team from two to seven million dollars. This is the third post in an occasional series going through some of those bad 2009 offenses and optimizing their batting orders. This article deals with the 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates.

An optimized batting order only gains a team 5 to 15 runs a year, but to buy those marginal runs on the current free agent market usually costs a team from two to seven million dollars. This is the second post in an occasional series going through some of those bad 2009 offenses and optimizing their batting orders. This article deals with the 2009 San Diego Padres