Dennis Eckersley remains an efficient worker in his post-retirement days. The former Boston Red Sox closer apparently took issue with Bill James' tweet Thursday night about Hall of Fame player/manager ...

What Nate Silver does on fivethirtyeight.com — and this is my understanding of what he does, not his description of it — is search data for the underlying order of the universe that is ...

Bill James came to Boston University on Tuesday to talk about Sabermetrics. James currently serves as a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ...

First, yes I've changed the headline on this series of posts about Bill James' series of articles, for the simple reason that Bill's been writing about fielders and not pitchers, whilst "defense" ...

The Red Sox raised a few eyebrows by hiring maverick statistician Bill James in 2002. That was before the team won its first World Series in 86 years. When I asked our general manager, Theo Epstein, ...