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Monday, February 02, 2009

My dirty dozen favorite baseball websites

By Tangotiger, 01:41 PM

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/ (for the reader comments)
http://www.hardballtimes.com/
http://www.fangraphs.com/
http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=neyer_rob
http://sabermetricresearch.blogspot.com/
http://lanaheimangelfan.blogspot.com/
http://walksaber.blogspot.com/
http://statspeak.net/
http://ussmariner.com/
http://sbnation.com/
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/
http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Yours? 

(Note: your comments will likely hit the spam detector because of the hyperlinks.  I’ll monitor.)


#1    David Cameron      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 13:56

I’m guessing you like the FanGraphs blog more than the deserted FanGraphs Forum, which no one ever visits? At least, I hope so, or otherwise, I’m really wasting my time over there.


#2    Xeifrank      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 14:03

I won’t post the URL, just the name of the site and try to put them in order by favorite.

1. Fangraphs
2. Book Blog
3. Beyond The BoxScores
4. Dodger Thoughts
5. Baseball-Reference
6. Stat Speak
7. Hardball Times
8. Baseball Think Factory
9. Tango Wiki
10. Baseball Musings
11. Baseball Nooz
12. Friar Forecast


#3    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 14:06

David: oops.  That was my bookmark, which I never bothered to update.

Xei/2: never been to #11, so I’ll check that one out.  The others missing from my list are all good, and I visit them at least once a month.


#4          (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 14:10

Agree with all you mentioned, but adding Lookout Landing to my list.



#6    Matt Mitchell      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 15:57

No particular order here. Names are repeats from other lists, and links for the different ones:

The Book Blog
The Hardball Times
FanGraphs
Sabermetric Research (Phil Birnbaum)
Rob Neyer’s ESPN blog
Statistically Speaking
Shysterball (I won’t link, since it’s part of THT)
Baseball-Reference
Stat Corner
Baseball Analysts
Baseball Prospectus
Seamheads (click on my name for the link)


#7    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 16:14

Stat Corner, plus Sackman’s and Constancio’s sites are all good stat sites.  I don’t visit them often enough, but they are there in a pinch.


#8    David      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 21:22

There are problems with the BP metrics, but they still have great articles and the best projection system (although CHONE and ZiPS are close behind). Why are they not on your list Tango?


#9    Hyltzn      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 22:19

The Book blog
Beyond The Boxscore
Statistically Speaking
Fangraphs.com blog
Rob Neyer’s blog at ESPN
Poz’ blog, along with his SI articles
The Baseball Analysts
The Hardball Times
Phil Birnbaum’s blog (Tango linked it)

That’s about it. Not quite 12.


#10          (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 23:11

The Book blog
ESPN’s MLB page
Beyond the Boxscore
StatSpeak
Driveline Mechanics
Baseball Intellect
Lanaheimangelfan (Rally’s site)
The Hardball Times
McCovey Chronicles
Fox Sports’ MLB page
Fangraphs
Baseball Reference

And a bunch more. Ah, the benefits of still being in school.


#11    brent      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 23:32

All of the above and
http://www.drunkjaysfans.com


#12          (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 23:33

Great lists; I will add Baseball Think Factory, especially for the Hall of Merit.


#13    Pizza Cutter      (see all posts) 2009/02/02 (Mon) @ 23:45

Tom, how can you leave off Beyond the Boxscore and On Baseball and the Reds?  I’m of the “I’m spoiled for choice when I need to waste time at work” school of thought on this one.


#14    Xeifrank      (see all posts) 2009/02/03 (Tue) @ 13:43

Pizza, Tom listed SBNation… which in a court of law could be proven to cover Beyond The Boxscore.
vr, Xei


#15    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/02/03 (Tue) @ 13:55

David/8: I have to draw the line somewhere, and dirty dozen makes that line at 13.  If I include BPro, I have to knock one of the others out.  In any case, there were others I had ahead of BPro.  The disappearance of Dan Fox, Nate, and Clay took a major hit for me.

And PECOTA is not the best.  Can you back your claim that PECOTA is any better than Chone?  In any case, my challenge should finally settle it:
http://tangotiger.net/forecast/

***

Right, I cheated by using SBNation which covered alot.  Justin’s site was a late cut.  Personally, I wish that Justin, Phil, Patriot, Rally, Pizza, Colin and a few others would create blogs at Hardball Times, so that I’d get them all together.


#16    terpsfan101      (see all posts) 2009/02/03 (Tue) @ 16:40

I’m dissapointed that Patriot’s websites only got mentioned once (by Tango). I think people forget about the website he created before his blog:

http://gosu02.tripod.com/id7.html


#17    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/02/03 (Tue) @ 16:45

I don’t know that you need to see a multiple mention.  It’s like Alan Nathan’s website.  It’s great and resourceful, and very niche.


#18          (see all posts) 2009/02/03 (Tue) @ 19:01

Great lists, guys. In addition, I really enjoy David Pinto’s site (baseballmusings), firstinning, and baseballcube.

The Cube is daily reading for me. I don’t know of another site that has as much amateur performance data as the cube.


#19    Eric Seidman      (see all posts) 2009/02/04 (Wed) @ 18:54

Hmm, I guess my criteria for this would be what sites do I go to on my downtime or that have become daily reading.  There are in no particular order, unless stream of consciousness is considered an order:

Fangraphs
The Hardball Times
The Book Blog
Statistically Speaking
Baseball Prospectus
BTF Newsstand
Beyond the Box Score
Joe Posnanski
Rob Neyer’s ESPN Page
Jayson Stark’s ESPN Page (sometimes I just like some weird factoids)

There are some team oriented blogs I enjoy reading, like The Good Phight, Amazin Avenue, USSMariner as well.


#20    Nick      (see all posts) 2009/06/21 (Sun) @ 05:29

A little late, but I thought I would name mine anyway.

Viva El Birdos
Beyond the Boxscore
The Book Blog
The Hardball Times
Fangraphs
Brooksbaseball.net
Minorleague Splits
Stacorner
Lookout Landing
Amazin’ Avenue
Stat Speak
FJM (I sometimes read the archives for kicks)
Driveline Mechanics

... In no particular order.


#21    Gary Geiger Counter      (see all posts) 2009/06/21 (Sun) @ 10:38

When it was active, Cardboard Gods was a must read for me.  But Josh is working on a book now.


#22    dan      (see all posts) 2009/06/21 (Sun) @ 11:12

I thought I commented on this at the time it was posted, but now I don’t see my name anywhere. After #1 these are in no particular order.

RiverAveBlues.com
The Book Blog
StatSpeak
THT
It is about the money, stupid
Beyond the Boxscore
Driveline Mechanics
TexasLeaguers.com
FanGraphs
Shysterball
Joe Posnanski
Baseball Analysts

I would include justin’s Reds blog, but we’ll just count him under the umbrella of BtB now that he’s over there too.


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