This paper applies the theory of zero-sum stochastic games to assess the validity of baseball's ancient wisdom that …

data from Major League Baseball, I attempt to quantify the effect that reputation plays in voting for the Gold Glove award …

interaction in the stolen base play in baseball. A parsimonious simultaneous-move game model offers predictions about how the … organizes observations from play-by-play data from Major League Baseball, where highly-motivated, experienced professionals …

I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of … the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index for homeruns and strikeouts in professional baseball from 1920 to 1993, and relate them to … structural changes in baseball. I isolate the structural effect of free-agency and find no evidence that free agency has altered …

This note considers the problem of estimating the marginal products of offensive events towards a baseball team …