Useful websites for the offseason

[ypsieast]

With all the off-season speculation and analysis going on, I thought a thread that consolidates resources would be useful. Please suggest other resources that fellow users might find interesting.

STATS & INFO

Baseball-Reference (http://www.baseball-reference.com/): career stats for every player

MLB.com sortable stats/splits (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/sortable_player_stats.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&subScope=pos&teamPosCode=all&statType=1&timeSubFrame=2006&sitSplit=&venueID=&Submit=Submit&timeFrame=1): 2006 stats; sortable and comparable by league/position/splits.. etc.

MLB Contracts (http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/): MLB Contracts and Salaries


FREE AGENCY NEWS

ESPN Free Agent Tracker (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/features/freeagents): updated list of the free agent market

MLB4U.com: useful site for free agent rankings, commentary and speculation

MLB trade rumors (http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/): recent rumors

Detroit Tigers News (http://www.prosportsdaily.com/mlb/tigers/): links to all the day's stories concerning the Detroit Tigers

Pro Sports Daily (http://www.prosportsdaily.com/): links to all the day's baseball stories


GENERAL BASEBALL STUFF

Roto World (http://www.rotoworld.com/content/Home_MLB.aspx): pretty much a deep wire service, with lost of winter league news and tidbits about off-the-radar players

Baseball Analysts (http://baseballanalysts.com/)

Hardball Times (http://www.hardballtimes.com/)

Baseball America (http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/): minor leagues and prospects

Baseball Prospectus (http://www.baseballprospectus.com)

[IdahoBert]

thanks. This is helpful.

[zimm]

i would add:
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/
has links to every noteworthy newspaper article

http://www.rotoworld.com/
pretty much a deep wire service, with lost of winter league news and tidbits about off-the-radar players

[Domino]

Great thread idea thanks for posting this.

[irishmick79]

As much as I hate ESPN, I do have to begrudgingly admit that their Free Agent Tracker is pretty slick. Does anybody know of a good site for contract data on players?

[zimm]

Does anybody know of a good site for contract data on players?


Rotoworld has recently added this to their player profiles. an example:

http://www.rotoworld.com/Content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&id=3579

[ypsieast]

USA Today has a good Salary Database, but it falls short on contract information.

http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx


Found this one, which looks real good:

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

[irishmick79]

Rotoworld has recently added this to their player profiles. an example:

http://www.rotoworld.com/Content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&id=3579

Oh, cool. Thanks. I guess I should take a closer look at some of the links before asking dumb questions.

[Sparks4Ever]

Thames isn't a free agent until 2011. That's crazy.

[Imminent Threat]

STICKY PLEASE!

[estrepe1]

Found this one, which looks real good:

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

Cots contracts has been a resource of mine for quite a while. It is awesome at breaking down the contracts and options.

They have already updated for the Dombrowski extension (no money details)

[MotownWebGuy]

STICKY PLEASE!Why don't you just subscribe to this thread instead? Or you can bookmark the sites in your favorites or even submit them to the web links section of this website. Lots of other options...

[Tyrus]

For those of you who enjoy discussing baseball history, a great site is:

www.baseball-fever.com

[djhutch]

Why don't you just subscribe to this thread instead? Or you can bookmark the sites in your favorites or even submit them to the web links section of this website. Lots of other options...

Thank you for this. For a while there we had about 100 stickies at the top. A little much.

[MotownWebGuy]

For a while there we had about 100 stickies at the top. A little much.I agree, which is why I hope people will find other options to solve their own needs instead of just suggesting a sticky.

[redshark63]

I agree, which is why I hope people will find other options to solve their own needs instead of just suggesting a sticky.

Otherwise we will find ourselves in a sticky situation.

[ypsieast]

Yeah, I just bookmarked this thread. Keep the suggestions coming...

[BigMM]

Good thread.

[TigersSlappy]

I would add:

http://baseballanalysts.com/

http://www.hardballtimes.com/

http://www.retrosheet.org/

[chasfh]

I have a whole folder of baseball-related Favorites I keep in my browser. It's really well organzied, although probably not complete. If anyone is interested PM me your ema and I will send it to you.

[cruzer1]

Of course, the best baseball website of all time (besides www.motownsports.com )...

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/

[Imminent Threat]

Why don't you just subscribe to this thread instead? Or you can bookmark the sites in your favorites or even submit them to the web links section of this website. Lots of other options...



I will subscribe.

Sorry Webby.

[ypsieast]

I've updated the list. Thanks for the input.

[DaYooperASBDT]

Great, great thread.
More sites I've come across or seen posted here:

www.digitalballparks.com (http://www.digitalballparks.com)

www.thegamelive.com/baseballmlb.html (http://www.thegamelive.com/baseballmlb.html)

www.minorleaguesplits.com (http://www.minorleaguesplits.com)

www.minorleaguebaseball.com (http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com)

www.kffl.com (http://www.kffl.com)

www.sports-wired.com/draft/ (http://www.sports-wired.com/draft/)

Just for fun:
http://msn.foxsports.com/games/hitthepros/home

[Edman85]

Otherwise we will find ourselves in a sticky situation.

Virtual slap in the face...