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On June 14th, the standings in the NL LABR looked like this: 1 Baseball HQ (Doug Dennis)                   97.5 2 Baseball Info Solutions (Steve Moyer)   95.5 3 Rotoworld (Wolf/ Colton)                        81.0 4 Hardball Times (Derek Carty)                80.5 5 ESPN.com (Tristan H. Cockcroft)          75.5 … Read more

So the Mets have traded off Carlos Beltran, and their reward is a 21-year-old pitcher in high-A by the name of Zach Wheeler. Wheeler comes from the Giants, and is very highly rated as a prospect…at least by the scouts. I’m here to judge him solely by the numbers. And I will say, in preface, … Read more

Happy Independence Day! I didn’t get quite as much done this Fourth of July weekend as I had hoped. There were other household tasks – getting the front and back yards mowed, gutter guards installed, rotting fascia boards replaced. There were computer-related tasks – installing a new UPS (the old one had spaced out twice … Read more

I’m Clay Davenport, one of the founders of Baseball Prospectus. I still have a (looser than before) affiliation with BP, so don’t expect to see me using this site to dish dirt or run anybody into the ground. I’m old enough and stubborn enough to have my own way of doing things, and some of … Read more

As my title indicates, this a place for me to keep some statistics I happen to care about. These are statistics that I’ve run at Baseball Prospectus for many years, but BP has decided to discontinue them – or at least transform into something I no longer recognize. Baseball Prospectus was originally founded on the … Read more