Is it a good thing when new types of statistics allow sports fans to see old players in a whole new way? Because that’s what’s happening with sports stats.
In 2012, pitcher Justin Verlander did something unprecedented for a sport that had seen nearly everything—and a new breed of baseball stat nerds noticed.
A curious estimate seen in a wide variety of stories about plastic straws was uncovered by a 9-year-old. How big of a problem is that?