About Baseball Analytica

Origin story

Founded in 2021 as Addison Kline's personal baseball blog, Baseball Analytica has since become a home for sabermetrics discussion and experimentation. Since its inception, the site has expanded in both size and scope, now featuring multiple writers and fully fledged ranking and projection systems.

Conceived in early January of that year, Kline wanted a platform to express his ideas about America's pastime. A lifelong baseball fan, reading Michael Lewis' Moneyball led him into the world of sabermetrics. He began sketching formulas in the Notes app on his phone and testing them with spreadsheets of data. After spending much of quarantine combing the internet for baseball data and recording his findings, he decided to build a site from scratch. In roughly two months, he wrote the original HTML and CSS that gave the site its sleek, bare-bones look. Work on the first posts began in March, and by May the site was live. Soon after, the first power rankings were published, starting a now-classic twice-a-season tradition.

In 2022, a second writer, Albert Carreno, joined the site. Carreno grew up playing baseball, primarily as a pitcher, and was an avid Yankees fan. He also loved working with numbers and had a knack for math, making his path into sabermetrics inevitable (he, too, credits Moneyball as a key entry point). Today he's committed to improving the average fan's understanding of baseball's nuts and bolts through statistics, while helping the field move forward.

Most recently, Baseball Analytica launched a set of daily in-season projections known as the Family of Optimized Expectations for the Year, or FOXY. The site is a perpetual work-in-progress that continues to expand and improve—stay tuned.