Links
Here are links to various sites, blogs, and forums around the internet that may be of use to someone looking to learn more about sabermetrics.
Sabermetric Sites/Blogs
Baseball Prospectus - PECOTA, Davenport Translations, VORP, annual books, ect
The Hardball Times - Daily articles, advanced stats, books
Tango on Baseball - Tango’s archives — Linear weights, clutch hitting, projections, and much more.
The Book Blog - Tango, MGL, and a bunch of knowledgeable readers
Sabermetrics Wiki - Descriptions of many saber stats and ideas
Patriot’s Sabermetrics page - Many valuable essays on sabermetrics
Walk Like A Sabermetrician - Patriot’s blog
By The Numbers - The SABR statistical analysis newsletter
Sabermetric Research - Phil Birnbaum’s blog
Cyril Morong’s Sabermetric Research - Many, many links to saber stuff
Baseball think Factory Research Center - More studies and essays
Baseball Think Factory - ZiPS, Transaction Oracle, Dialed in, lots of news and analysis
Sabernomics - J.C. Bradury’s thoughts on baseball and sabermetrics
Baseball Analysts - Many analysis-type articles, as the title may imply
On Baseball and The Reds - A lot of recent sabermetric research
Skyking162 - More research and analysis
Voros McCracken’s blog - Voros returns to the online baseball world
Boyd’s World - College baseball rankings, park factors, stats, etc.
Statistically Speaking - Pizza Cutter and Eric Seidman
Clifford Blau’s Original Research - More research
High Boskage House - Eric Walker’s site — stats and sabermetric essays
Statistical Studies of Baseball - John Jarvis’ site
Beyond The Boxscore - SB Nation’s sabermetrics blog
Dan Agonistes - Dan Fox of Baseball Prospectus (and now the Pittsburgh Pirates)
SABR - The Society for American Baseball Research
HSAC Blog - The Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective
Fast Balls - Mike Fast’s PITCHf/x research– includes extensive catalog of other PITCHf/x research
Baseball Playoffs Now - Predictions, power ratings, analysis, etc.
Forums
Baseball Fever - Baseball Fever’s sabermetrics forum
Resources
Retrosheet - Where a lot of this stuff gets started
Baseball Archive - Same as above
Baseball Reference - Tons of stats for every player, league, team, etc. in history
Baseball Cube - More stats
Fan Graphs - Tons of batted ball stats
PITCHf/x - Pitch tracking technology data
First Inning - Great minor league numbers
Studies Not Online
I can of course only link to things that make it on the Internet. Numerous other studies have been published in print and obviously won’t make it on here. For that, however, check out Charlie Pavitt’s invaluable sabermetric bibliography (with description here).
