Hitter · Career & seasons
Player profiles
Explore a career through linked trends, era baselines, statistical fingerprints, cohorts and full season logs.
Explore Mike Trout →A Minor Works studio experiment · Baseball first
There's more to the numbers.
Explore baseball beyond the box score. Beautiful player histories, unexpected comparisons and little games that make you look twice.
PLAYER PROFILES · Click through the numbers and inspect every season.
01 / EXPLORE
Find the story.
Player profiles, linked comparisons and historical analysis—clean on the surface, deep underneath.
Linked profiles · Era-aware
Compare two players
Align by age or calendar, flip raw and league-relative metrics, and export comparison graphics.
Trout vs. Pujols →
Pitching · Performance & workload
Pitcher profiles
ERA, WHIP, strikeout and walk rates, workload, league context and season-level comparisons.
Explore Kershaw →
New · 1,000 eligible retired hitters
Career Stage
When do hitters actually peak? Compare an age-adjusted curve with the ages of individual best seasons, by position and debut decade.
Explore the aging curve →
New · Deep statistical research
Analyst Lab
Pitch-count decisions, times through the order, leverage, pitch shapes and other questions that can make the data surprising.
Open the research lab →New · Interactive statistical map
Career Atlas
Plot hitters or pitchers across two metrics. Change axes, identify outliers and open the players behind each dot.
Explore the Atlas →
Teams · Cross-era
Team DNA
Compare historical teams, find statistical soul mates and play Same Record, Different Souls.
Explore Team DNA →
Historical trends · Big Board
The Changing Game
Switch measures and years to expose larger patterns in the sport across decades.
Open the Big Board →02 / PLAY
Make a guess. Learn something.
Short games built on the same data. Each reveal is another way into the archive.
01 / DRAW
Draw the Line
Sketch the history of home runs, strikeouts or steals. Compare your prediction with the real curve.
Play Draw the Line →02 / FLIP
The Flip
Career totals can tell a very different story from per-game or rate statistics.
Play The Flip →03 / GUESS
Same Record, Different Souls
Two identical win-loss records. Two completely different statistical personalities.
Play the team challenge →04 / REVEAL
The Crossing
Guess when strikeouts first overtook hits, then scrub through the evidence.
Explore The Crossing →05 / GAME ROOM
Four more games
Awards Duel, October Arms, Team Tale and Rank the Four.
Enter the Game Room →06 / BIG BOARD
Slice the data
Move between leaderboards, timelines, fingerprints and scatterplots.
Open the Big Board →03 / DISCOVER
One small fact. A bigger story.
Surprising results should be shareable, verifiable, and just a tap away from deeper investigation.
DID YOU KNOW? · 2018
The year strikeouts overtook hits.
For the first time in the American and National League team totals, strikeouts outnumbered hits in a season. A small numerical crossing that marks a profound shift in how the game is played.
41,207Strikeouts
41,019Hits
Source: 2025 Lahman team file, AL + NL, 2018. The earlier Databank version yields a one-hit difference.
Prototype data notice. The new player pages use Claude's separate 250-player Lahman cohort through 2020; Career Stage uses 1,000 eligible retired hitters; existing team and game prototypes include other historical windows. Rankings are sample-specific, not all-time MLB rankings. Numbers and qualification rules stay attached to each view. Out of the Box is a working title.
04 / SHARE
A fact worth sending.
Every page now has a Share control: a square graphic, a copyable caption and a link back into the data.
A VERIFIED DISCOVERY
In 2018, strikeouts overtook hits.
41,207 strikeouts. 41,019 hits. A crossing more than a century in the making.
