StephenT's Favorite Baseball Links

"What is the evidence, and what does it mean?" Bill James

Blue Jays Blog (weblog discussing the Jays, many fine authors)
TruNorth Baseball (Canadian baseball site which includes lots of original Jays articles)
CANOE's Jays page (lots of the Toronto Sun's Jays articles)
Baseball Prospectus (great book, but the web site is moving behind passwords)
Baseball Primer Transaction Oracle (free transaction analysis)
ESPN Major League Baseball (general baseball news)
Toronto Blue Jays' Official Web Site (better articles than you would expect from MLB)
Blue Jays mailing list (unofficial chatter, just type subscribe in the body of your message to subscribe; there is also an unrelated newsgroup)
Blue Jays Abstract (older articles)

ESPN's MLB Scoreboard (I like the Game Logs and that the pitch counts are updated during a game) (there is also a Minor League Scoreboard)
USA Today's Baseball Stats (has home/away stats (good for park factor calculations), righty/lefty stats (but beware of small sample sizes), etc. but doesn't tell you the players' first names)
Baseball America's Minor League Stats (good minor league stat site)
International League team stats (this site has those hard to find team minor league stats)
Doug's MLB Stat Page (unofficial, but (1) the data is provided in a format that's easy to parse, (2) his team stats show the stats for a player with that team only, which for traded players often isn't available on other sites, (3) he lists 2nd-half stats, and (4) in 1997 Doug started listing Last 20 Games stats, which you can't easily get elsewhere)
CNN/SI used to do good Defense Ratings and Situational Stats: here are some examples from 1999:

Retrosheet Web Page (includes boxscores of every regular-season Jays game ever (except for the past year))
Baseball Reference (most detailed historical player stat lines, but not individual games)
Database with Historical Baseball Stats (the database has annual major league stats back to 1871)
All The Jays Teams (personal favorite)

Society for American Baseball Research, SABR (annual convention for baseball researchers)
Summary of Bill James' findings (extract from his 1988 Baseball Abstract, some parts will be unclear if you haven't read the rest of his work)
What is Sabermetrics? (includes advice for general managers)

Baseball Games on the Radio (have to pay a fee for the season, but includes archives of previous games) (if you don't have the software to listen to the games, there's a link to the free RealOne player on the page)
Baseball Radio Interviews (the 2002 archives include some interviews with Bill James)

Sports Schedules As You Like 'Em (really neat site for getting schedules)
Seating plans of lots of stadiums
Pitch Counts for every Jays start in 1999
Blake and Len's Dave Stieb Site (original articles about the greatest all-time Blue Jays pitcher who should have won the Cy Young Award 4 times: 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985, and also includes historical Jays articles too)
Syracuse SkyChiefs (Jays' Triple-A team)
Ottawa Lynx (Baltimore's Triple-A team which plays here in town; there are no bad seats in the stadium, and the Lynx host the SkyChiefs 3-4 series each year.)
Jays' Australian Baseball League affiliate: The Sydney Storm (I didn't even know the Jays had a team in Australia until their marketing manager sent me a "G'day". They have detailed roster information and player stats on their site (though I don't think they maintain stats for the current season).)
Toronto Baseball Guys
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Last Updated: 2003 Mar 10

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