This is Part II in a series endeavoring to cover one oddball event, occurrence, statistic, story, or some other piece of information or minutiae from the game's history that is both fun and...

Boy, when will baseball just leave stuff alone and try and build some traditions? Is nothing sacred?

Can expected home runs, compared against actual home runs, be used to see how strong hitters are? It appears so!

For years now, I've had an issue with the most prominently used pitching metrics here. I don't trust home runs allowed as a useful statistic to hold against pitchers. I'm not a professional...

While my posting has been sporadic to say the least, I have had time to continue looking into the strike zone stuff that I began with a look at the differences between the right and left-handed...

A look at catchers' (and others) pitch-framing performance through an updated representation of the strike zone.

Imagine that a right-handed hitter steps to the plate. Now draw a line from home plate through to center field. It's a bit simplistic, but consider the space to the left (from the hitter's...

Where the strike is — and is not — called