While I sort through all of the National League transactions since October and also wait for a few pending AL things to be completed, I thought I would quickly throw out a new round of websites that I recommend whether you just have some time to kill, research to do, or random things you want to look up.
Most of these I have found linked on other sites or through perusing other pages, so I will reference those when applicable.
Baseboogle - Google for baseball? Exactly. Baseboogle is a search engine run by Google that uses a special set of selection criteria and filters searches through a vast list of baseball related websites and documents. My search for simply “clutch” yields more than five pages of links to articles ranging from who is the most clutch, to dismissing clutch hitting, to clutch projects, to “is David Ortiz a clutch hitter?” Also helpful is a list on the right side of the page that lists all of the sites that Baseboogle pulls from when it searches. You can recommend sites to be added so that the directory of pages it searches from becomes more extensive. You can find this site at www.baseboogle.com. I found this site from a post on The Book blog by Tom Tango.
Cot’s Baseball Contracts - I can’t tell you how many times I have wanted exactly this type of information at my fingertips. This site has a page for each team and lists all players, the manager and what contracts they have, what their yearly salary is, what their bonuses are, no-trade clause or not, etc. This is also a great resource for arbitration eligible players, 2008 and 2009 free agents, transaction lists, and other interesting baseball links. Just a great site to look up your favorite team, player, or whatever. You can find it at www.mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/. This site is always used in Pizza Cutter’s sabermetric year in review series for each MLB team currently running on MVN’s Statistically Speaking.
Sabermetric Studies - A useful and well-organized archive of all things having to do with sabermetric analysis. There are pages for each area of discussion and research such as fielding, run estimation, DIPS, clutch hitting, and many more. Each page has multiple links to any study or analysis that has been done on the subject, and the most helpful part is that he mentions which of the articles are available only to those who have subscriptions to respective sites. Also available on this site is a very comprehensive list of sabermetric and other baseball reference sites. This can be found at www.sabermetricstudies.com. This link also came from a Tom Tango post on The Book blog.
Beyond the Box Score - A site much like this one, Beyond the Box Score is a comprehensive look at stats, teams, players, and trends going a little bit deeper than the average analysis. The articles and analysis are always concise, easy to understand, and extremely helpful for understanding teams and their trends. RJ Anderson, the author, also blogs for the Devil Rays and was formerly at Deadspin.com. BTBS also has one of the more extensive blogrolls and link lists that you can find anywhere. You can find this site at www.beyondtheboxscore.com.
There you go, just some more filler for you in your free time desperately counting down the days until baseball season starts again.
Filed under: Online, Recommended, Sabermetrics
