* Article on changing HBP rates in The Hardball Times

* The Hardball Times is a website as well as an annual volume that evaluates the preceding major league season and presents original research articles on various sabermetric topics.

* John Walsh, " Strike Zone: Fact vs. Fiction ," The Hardball Times, July 11, 2007.

The Hardball Times has developed its own Win Shares, as well as a number of derivative statistics, such as Win Shares Above Bench, Win Shares Percentage, Win Shares Above Average, and All Star Win Shares.

* Sortable Win Shares for 2004-2008 MLB-The Hardball Times

The Hardball Times.

* The Williams-Santo Cubs 1961-1965 @ The Hardball Times

* 15-july 21-1963 / The Hardball Times ' This Week in Annotated Baseball History discusses Thigpen's career

* Interview, The Hardball Times, 5 / 2 / 05

In addition to those more obvious changes, Craig Brown of The Hardball Times also attributed Mussina's renaissance to excellent control, noting that he was walking fewer batters than ever before and was becoming a ground-ball pitcher for the first time in his career.

Entering the season The Hardball Times predicted him as their " consensus pick for the Cy Young ".

Vazquez throws from a 3 / 4 arm slot with " good command of a running / sinking fastball " that has, according to FanGraphs, overall averaged 91 mph according to Josh Kalk of The Hardball Times was " over 93 mph on average " in his peak.

The Hardball Times, a popular baseball statistics website, uses a slightly different FIP equation, instead using 3 *( BB + HBP-IBB ) rather than simply 3 *( BB ) where " HBP " stands for batters hit by pitch and " IBB " stands for intentional base on balls.

Dave Studeman of The Hardball Times derived Expected Fielding Independent Pitching ( xFIP ), a regressed version of FIP.

Never known for his speed on the basepaths, Phillips was picked as the slowest active ballplayer by using a formula based on Bill James ' speed scores by the Hardball Times in April 2006.

The Hardball Times measured the average age of all Major League Baseball teams relative to how much each player contributed to his team.

One Hardball Times writer predicted that the Giants ' old players would stop producing in the future.

* Hardball Times stats

* The Hardball Times on Glenallen Hill