Baseball Graphs is dedicated to the better use and communication of baseball statistics. Below, you'll find excerpts from, and links to, some of the best baseball writers on the Internet. Follow the links above to read my own intermittent attempts at wisdom (the Baseball Graphs blog), and the heart of this site, historical graphs of every season dating back to 1900.
There are also two special sections you might want to check out. One is the graphical review of the 2003 season, which informed our work at The Hardball Times. The other is the Batted Balls Library, which includes a unique look at batters and pitchers from 2002 through 2005.
The outstanding Blue Jays’ blog, battersbox.ca, has a nice review of shortstops by Mike Green. Mike and the pursuant commentators do a particularly good job of discussing the measurement of a shortstop’s fielding impact.
Bill James put boundaries on fielding Win Shares, at both the team and individual player, because he didn’t fully trust the output (I think). This makes it hard to use fielding Win Shares to evaluate really good (and bad) fielders in any given year or career. This is a significant issue that should be kept in mind when discussing some of the great ones, like Ozzie Smith.