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John Dewan's Stat of the Week
Easy and Tough Saves
August 30, 2013 In recent seasons, we’ve seen many of the sabermetric principles we study and advocate at Baseball Info Solutions matriculate into the professional game. For example, if the current pace continues, teams will use the defensive shift three times as often this season as they did in 2011. One aspect [...]
Best Single-Season Runs Saved Totals
August 19, 2013 Baseball Info Solutions now has over 10 years of Defensive Runs Saved data. Over the last decade, we've witnessed some incredible defensive seasons. A pair of shortstops, Jack Wilson and Adam Everett, saved an estimated 32 and 34 runs in 2005 and 2006, respectively. In 2010, Brett [...]
Opponent OPS
August 15, 2013 Over the last several years, it's been clear that pitching in Major League Baseball has become more dominant. In fact, it has been over 20 years since the league ERA has been as low as it has been so far this year. This year's MLB ERA is 3.88, [...]
Who's Shifting and Who's Not
July 25, 2013 Over the last few years, the use of The Shift Defense has increased dramatically in baseball. Here are the Major League Baseball totals of the number of shifts in baseball, as tracked by Baseball Info Solutions (BIS). [...]
Who Should Be Starting the 2013 All-Star Game?
July 16, 2013 The Mid-Summer Classic is upon us! Tonight, the best players from around Major League Baseball will take to New York's Citi Field and compete for home field advantage in this year's World Series. There is inevitably some controversy over which players make the All-Star teams, specifically in the starting lineups. [...]
Edwin Encarnacion and Shifts
July 11, 2013 I recently attended a Blue Jays-Red Sox game and really liked the way the Red Sox were putting a defensive shift on the right-handed hitting Edwin Encarnacion. Until the last couple of years a full shift on a right-handed batter was unheard of in Major League Baseball. Now, the Red Sox were [...]
The Pirates and Hot Streaks
June 26, 2013 One of Bill James’ cooler stats (no pun intended) is his Hot Teams and Batters system, which measures how hot a player or team is right now. Bill developed a scale that converts a player or team’s recent performance into a temperature in Fahrenheit. A team or player [...]
Scoring Runners from Third Base with Less Than Two Outs
June 24, 2013 Reader Phil Levinson writes: Hi John, I loved this article, which you wrote back in 2008. Can you tell me where I can find a site with this stat updated on a regular basis "% of Runners Scored from 3B with Less Than 2 Outs"? I believe this is the most underrated offensive statistic in baseball, [...]
Rookie Total Runs and DRS Leaders
June 19, 2013 A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the overall Total Runs leaders so far in 2013. Total Runs is a comprehensive player evaluation that combines our Defensive Runs Saved numbers with runs generated by offense, pitching, and baserunning. This week, let’s use the same metric to look at the [...]
Who Has The Most Total Runs in 2013?
May 29, 2013 Since Defensive Runs Saved is expressed in runs, it is an easy metric to combine with runs generated by offense, baserunning, and pitching to create a comprehensive evaluation of a player. In The Fielding Bible—Volume III, we published our current method for Total Runs, which estimates the total [...]