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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a parable that includes the baseball gods, the game of creation gave baseball nerds their holy grail. In the ninth inning, the baseball gods said, "Let there be a database equal parts time-sink and ...

As analytical as Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter is, even the 2014 American League Manager of the Year might scratch his head over some of these obscure baseball stats. And if he won't, ...

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 ...

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 ...