Hawk Harrelson and Brian Kenny had their much-hyped (if you watch MLB Network all day) clash about sabermetrics Thursday. Harrelson, the Chicago White Sox broadcaster and ex general manager, is on ...

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 ...

How can we use advanced metrics to analyze recent mega-deals signed by Jacoby Ellsbury and Robinson Cano? You won't see sabermetrics in the box scores, but they're having a larger effect on the game ...

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.

You're not going to find a more old school baseball guy than White Sox play-by-play announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, whose dislike of sabermetrics is no secret. Hawk made an appearance on MLB Network's ...

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 ...

I'm a pro-stats guy. I used to not be a long time ago, but I am now. There's too much useful information out there to ignore. Ideally, we'd have access to the best of both worlds, stats and scouts. Of ...

I like the idea of Bill Simmons’ new Grantland site. I think we need more deep-thinking, longer lede sports writing. Someplace where folks who consume their sports news in 35 bloggy bits a day (ahem) ...

(CBS) Longtime historian and statistician Bill James, known as the pioneer of sabermetrics, defined his innovation as "the search for objective knowledge about baseball." Sabermetrics offer authentic ...