In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

Major League Baseball has officially incorporated Negro Leagues statistics into the Major League record, the league announced Wednesday. MLB elevated the Negro Leagues to "Major League" status in 2020 ...

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

"I know, we're nerds. And some people are like, 'Shut up, nerd, .300 is good!' I get that; I'm not debating that. But there are other ways that we can analyze players − and make them better and try to ...

Negro League statistics from 1920-48 have been integrated into MLB's record book. Josh Gibson is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS. Babe Ruth has long been ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...

Baseball has always been about numbers. For decades, fans relied primarily on the statistics that graced box scores and baseball cards to evaluate players. Pitchers were judged on wins, losses, earned ...

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Shohei Ohtani broke a huge barrier that has sat in place for a century when he arrived as a two-way player. However, what makes Ohtani truly brilliant isn’t the fact that he pitches and hits, but that ...