I’m designing a program that will keep us informed on the club’s stats during the season and I’ll be posting them here. For now I’m going to just post one-stop links for you to grab the most common stats and a few obscure things you may not know about. I’ll add more as time goes by:

Sabermetric Primers

Discovery Channel’s Sabermetrics Primer
Professor Keith Devlin’s ”A Game of Numbers” Sabermetric Primer
David Grabiner’s Sabermetric Manifesto

Sabermetric Stat Links 

STATS Inc — Pittsburgh Pirates

ESPN’s Stat Page and Stats Resource Index

Howe Sports Data — MLB Menu

MLB — MLB Pressbox; MLB’s Player and Team Stats

Retrosheet — Years and Years of Box Scores

Baseball-Reference’s Play Index (PI requires a subscription but is well worth it), Year-by-year Draft Index, and Pirates Team Index

Baseball Prospectus — Pittsburgh Pirates Team Page

Sports Illustrated — Pittsburgh Pirates Team Page

Hardball Times — Pirates Team PrOPS Page

Baseball Links

Official Pittsburgh Pirates Home Page
Bucco Blog’s Discussion Forum

Baseball America
Baseball Analysts
Phil Birnbaum’s Sabermetric Research Blog
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week Column
Tangotiger

Cot’s Baseball Contracts — Pittsburgh Pirates

CSTV (Draft Prep Reading)
Boyd’s World (Draft Prep Reding)

MLB Trade Rumors

Essays

Bill James on Paul Johnson’s Estimated Runs Produced Essay
Bill James Underestimating the Fog (PDF version)
Brent Estes’s SLUGGER OR SLACKER Dissertation Paper
Rick Kubetz Pitchf/x and Physics research

Documents

2007 CBA (PDF)