The Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington isn’t about baseball, but it is indirectly about ways of seeing baseball differently. Well, really it’s about ways of seeing everything ...

In the midst of a little Sports Illustrated primer on which teams are using sabermetrics and which teams aren't, we find this nugget: Twins assistant GM Rob Antony says the field is changing so much ...

Our history department was recently blitzed by an external review. The conversations with the visiting committee revolved, perhaps inevitably, around the subject of productivity—a concept as elusive ...

Sabermetrics are an absolute abomination of the game of baseball. Bill James is the worst thing to ever happen to baseball. The second-worst thing: the breathless fanboys who can’t stop ...

The next time Derek Jeter or Manny Ramirez steps in the batter’s box, scan the graphics on your television screen. All the way over on the right you will see on-base percentage, a category that was ...

Author Alan Hirsch was kind enough to answer and respond to questions and criticisms of his new book, The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball.

Sabermetrics, the study and analysis of advanced baseball statistics, is not for everyone. It really does take a special kind of fan to devote time to this endlessly informative and often maddeningly ...

ST. LOUIS -- On the bookshelves in John Mozeliak's office, several books with a dark background and bright red letters on the spine stand out. The shelves hold many items, some pictures and many ...

The advanced statistics known as sabermetrics are so much a part of baseball that they're now a constant feature on SportsCenter. With the season starting April 3, we asked Jacob Pomrenke, director of ...

The best part of the most recent "Simpsons" episode was the opening title sequence directed by guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy. It was troublemaking art at its most subversive. Sadly, it featured no ...

The appointment of Damien Comolli, as the director of football strategy in Liverpool Football Club should be rather inquisitive then the sceptical; that John Henry does not trust Roy Hodgson when it ...