The Hardball Times
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The Hardball Times (abbreviated as THT) is a baseball web site[1] that publishes daily, original baseball commentary and analysis for regular baseball fans. Their slogan is "Baseball. Insight. Daily." Founded by Aaron Gleeman and Bill James assistant Matthew Namee in 2004, the site's commentary covers a wide range of topics, including baseball history, statistics, current events and minor leagues.
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The site also includes a variety of baseball stats and graphs (link[2]), and is the only freely available source of batted-ball, updated Win Shares data and advanced Zone Rating statistics on the Internet.
Predicted OPS (commonly abbreviated PrOPS) is a technical baseball formula. PrOPS is a formula that predicts a player's OPS using his batted-ball data, walk rate, strikeout rate, and home run rate, developed by J.C. Bradbury of Sabernomics. (link[3])
IPORT is an acronym coined by Matthew Carruth, writer and editor at The Hardball Times for the "Individual Pitch and Outcome Result Table" (IPORT).
[edit] Staff
The current staff consists of over ten writers and four editors. Many Hardball Times staff members maintain other baseball blogs on the Internet and/or have worked in traditional print media.[citation needed]
Current regular writers include: Richard Barbieri, Sal Baxamusa, John Beamer, Brian Borawski, John Brattain, Chris Constancio, David Gassko, Carlos Gomez, Jeff Sackmann, Dave Studeman, Steve Treder, John Walsh, Rick Wilton, Geoff Young, Derek Carty, and Chris Neault.
The current editorial staff consists of: Carolina Bolado, Matthew Carruth, Joe Distelheim and Bryan Tsao.
[edit] Publications
| Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2007 | |
| Author | Hardball Times Staff |
|---|---|
| Publisher | ACTA Sports |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0879463120 |
| Preceded by | Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2006 |
The Hardball Times has currently published five books, including two books with ACTA Sports and three that were self-published on Lulu.
- Hardball Times Preseason Book 2007 (ISBN 978-0879463120)- The site's first forward looking preseason book featured three year projections for players from all major league teams and many minor leaguers, as well as commentary on all the major league teams, in the style of Baseball Prospectus or Baseball Forecaster. The system was developed by THT staff members David Gassko and Chris Constancio.
- Hardball Times Annual 2007 (ISBN 978-0879463120)- Published in November of 2006, this well-received book included articles recapping the 2006 baseball season, the inaugural World Baseball Classic, a look at the impact of steroids on baseball, a look at the all the home runs hit in 2006 and the most valuable pitching careers of all time among its 33 chapters. Additionally, a couple hundred pages of stats reviewing the 2006 season were also included. It featured notable guest authors such as ESPN columnist Rob Neyer, John Dewan and Deadspin founder Will Leitch.
- Hardball Times Annual 2006 (ISBN 0-87946-308-2)- Published in November of 2005, this well-received book included over 30 articles and a couple hundred pages of stats reviewing the 2005 season. It featured notable guest authors such as Bill James, ESPN columnist Rob Neyer, John Dewan and noted bloggers Alex Belth, Matt Welch and Jon Weisman.
- The Hardball Times Bullpen Book - a joint publication by THT writers Steve Treder and Dave Studeman, the [Bullpen Book][4] chronicles the history of major league relievers and reviews, in detail, the best and worst performers of each major league bullpen from 2002 through 2004.
- Hardball Times Annual 2004 - Self-published in 2004, the Annual featured reviews of the 2004 baseball season, a study of what works in the playoffs and what doesn't, coverage of the Japanese Leagues and other original content generated by the Hardball Times staff, as well as contributions from other noted baseball writers and bloggers, such as Bill James, Brian Gunn and Alex Belth [5].
