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Closers are overvalued and BtB explains another reason why, called bullpen chaining.

With Sean Smith releasing historical WAR for pitchers, we can take a look at how they compare with the hitters.  Here are the top twenty five players in career WAR, including seasons 1955 and...

WAR data from Sean's historical WAR database.  It's awesome. Each players' seasons sorted from best to worst, left to right.

BtB reader and Rangers' fan philkid3 has a cool post up at LSB about the best players in Rangers history (well, since 1955, at least).  He included pitchers via a different method, which you can...

How has fielding talent at each position changed over the past fifty years? Beyond the Box Score takes a look and provides a nifty graph.