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Is Lance Berkman the next Larry Walker? Check out the infographic and decide for yourself.

A look back at the the greatest backstops in baseball history through the lens of WAR. Who is the best catcher in baseball history? What criteria do you use to ask that question? Why are there so many Yankees?

Frank "Home Run" Baker led the Major Leagues in home runs for four years in the 1910s and never hit more than 12 home runs in a season.

Thanks to Sean Smith's newly updated wins above replacement database, we can finally compare players from the golden era to those from the retrosheet era. Here, we kick off the analysis with some of the greatest of all time.

According to MLB Trade Rumors, the Yankees considered trading Mariano Rivera for David Wells in 1995. Likely, this trade would be more even than you would first think.

If you're someone who wants to know what the heck WAR is, how it's calculated, and why you'd use it, check out these two primers by BtB reader Jabberwocky.  I highly recommend them. Hitters P...

Some players just don't belong on a major league roster. BtB examines 23 such players in four categories, and shows how much wasted payroll could have been prevented.

Some teams are good at keeping sub-replacement level players off the field and off the mound. Some, like the

Should your favorite team pick up an aging Sheff?

Which players in the Retrosheet era had the most value at each position? A graphical view of the All WAR team.