At its core, baseball is a game of numbers, typified by the familiar phrase: “You are what the back of your baseball card says you are.” For the better part of three decades, Black baseball players ...

M.L.B. is still working to incorporate Negro league statistics, but a popular website now lets fans put some of the numbers in context. By James Wagner On Monday, Baseball Reference, the go-to source ...

Major League Baseball viewership has gradually declined since its peak in 2007, according to Baseball Reference. Because of what MLB commissioner Rob Manfred calls “organic changes,” the game’s most ...

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. This was Beltrán's fourth year on the ...

While we wait for baseball to return, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 60 moments in baseball history — think of it as a companion piece to The Baseball 100 — with a series of essays on the most ...

Former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Tommy Pham holds a keen interest in baseball metrics, and he brought forth some ideas to The Athletic on how baseball can better measure a player's value.

Santa's reindeer have their own baseball team Last winter, Baseball Reference showcased a little Christmas cheer by publishing a player page for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and this year it has ...

About a month ago, we received an email asking us to dive deeper into the advanced stats we reference daily on Fantasy Baseball Today. I can understand how some of the analysis can be confusing, even ...

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 ...

We review Baseball Card GM. The game is a sturdy 36″x18″ neoprene playmat (which can be rolled for easy storage/travel) with ...