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The ‘Big Five’ in North American Pro Sports
Yesterday, Ritchie King and I ran the numbers on the most popular teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and the English Premier League, according to the number of Google searches they...
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Baseball’s Best Farm Systems: How Much Do They Matter?
On Wednesday, Baseball America released an online version of its annual organizational talent rankings, listings of each major league franchise in order of “the total worth of each farm system’s...
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Is the DH Rule Slowing the Game Down?
When I wrote last week about the slowdown of MLB games in recent years, I noted that the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox were the two slowest teams. Both are in the American League, and maybe...
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How Good Has the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka Been?
The major league career of Masahiro Tanaka, the rookie pitcher from Japan signed by the New York Yankees during the offseason, is off to a blazing start. Tanaka mowed down 11 Los Angeles Angels of...
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Has the AL East Just Been Unlucky?
The weakest division of the American League so far this season is the one that has been the most dominant in recent years: the AL East — featuring the Yankees and Red Sox, the two winningest AL teams...
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A Brief History of N.Y. vs. LA Championship Battles
The Los Angeles Kings prevailed in typically dramatic style Sunday night, beating the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime in Game 7 to end the Western Conference finals. With the New York Rangers having...
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Derek Jeter And the Other Worst All-Star Starters of the Past 40 Years
When the American League takes the field in Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game, Derek Jeter will walk out of the dugout to what is sure to be thunderous applause and take his familiar place at...
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Is It True That Some Players Can’t Hack It in New York?
In the ninth inning of the New York Yankees’ 2-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on July 1, Brian McCann16 watched Grant Balfour’s fastball sail over the outside corner of the plate for a called third...
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The Price Of Seeing Derek Jeter’s Last MLB Game
Derek Jeter, a regionally popular player for a local New York ball club, announced his retirement in February, presaging the end to 20 seasons in Major League Baseball.I’ll leave it to the sports desk...
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Derek Jeter Isn’t Clutch. He’s Just Good.
Derek Jeter on Thursday delighted those New York Yankees fans lucky enough — or well-heeled enough — to go to his final home game. First he smashed a near home run (it ended up being a double) in the...
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MLB’s Biggest Star Is 40 (And He Just Retired). That Could Be A Problem.
“If Mike Trout walked into your neighborhood bar, would you recognize him?” The New Yorker’s Ben McGrath raised that question in a provocative essay last month.I’m reasonably certain that I would...
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Without Jeter, The Yankees Improved More At Shortstop Than Any Other MLB Team
The other day, several of us in the FiveThirtyEight office were musing about the New York Yankees’ chances in 2015. Certainly the Yankees are no longer the dominant powerhouse they were in the late...
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Willie Mays Was Way Better Than Alex Rodriguez
History was made Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, when New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez launched his 661st career home run into the left center-field bleachers. The blast moved...
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How A-Rod’s 3,000 Hits Stack Up
Late last week, New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez added another milestone to what has been a renaissance of a 2015 season, joining the venerated 3,000-hit club with a home run against...
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How Weird Is Alex Rodriguez’s Resurgence?
Once–disgraced slugger Alex Rodriguez turned 40 years old Monday, and he’s still hitting home run hat tricks. His remarkable return to form (at the moment he’s a top-10 hitter despite missing all of...
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Blue Jays’ Breakout Is No Surprise, But Don’t Forget The W’s And L’s
As if to put an exclamation point on their recent winning ways, the Toronto Blue Jays went into the Bronx over the weekend and swept the AL East-leading New York Yankees by a combined score of 10-1,...
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The Blue Jays Are The Best — And There’s An 80 Percent Chance They Won’t Win
It’s time for real, live playoff baseball. Or as sabermetricians like to call it: the season where weird stuff happens.The playoffs are entirely different from the regular season, with an emphasis on...
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Everyone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series.The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even though...
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Even The Orioles Have A Shot In The AL East
In honor of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, which starts Sunday, FiveThirtyEight is assembling some of our favorite baseball writers to chat about the year to come. Today, we focus on the...
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