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Web “portal” pages are, in effect, meta-links: a portal page is one designed as a “doorway” to a great number of related other sites.
John Skilton’s Baseball Links (This site has been reporting “Offline” since sometime in February of 2020; we don’t know if it is permanently gone or just on hiatus.)
The Cape Cod League (an important college-level summer league)
The Alaska League (another important college-level summer league)
(The Batter’s Box site has a very helpful mini-review of baseball-stat sites available; now a good few years old, but still useful).
There are numerous sources for baseball stats, but for both quality and quantity three stand out. They are:
All of them also offer a very great deal more than just stats.
For minor-league stats and news, there’s MiLB.com; one hopes that the recent coup by MLB, wiping out numerous minor-league teams, will not cause this source to dry up (that is, one hopes that MiLB will continue to exist, something that at present is open to question). But note that Baseball-Reference also carries minor-league (and other league) stats.
Brooks Baseball (pitch-location charts & more)
There are some awfully nice and very useful sites here.
Umpire Score Cards (updated daily)
MLB Umpires Missed 34,294 Ball-Strike Calls in 2018. A must-read analysis of umpire inaccuracy by Boston University Master Lecturer Mark T. Williams and a team of graduate students at the Questrom School of Business experienced in data mining, analytics, and statistics.
Cot’s Contracts: salaries, contracts, free agents, and more.
spotrac: lots of financial information about MLB (and other sports)
Baseball Think Factory (not solely analysis, but useful)
The Baseball Guru (link is to analysis subsection of site)
The Hardball Times (link is to analysis subsection of site)
These are all within the “SB Nation” family of forums.
Nowadays, more and more people want to watch ballgames—or at least get pitch-by-pitch live recountings—than ever before. That accompanies a dramatic rise in the download speed available to most people now, and a plethora of resources for live coverage is now available.
Note that there are numerous online sources that purport to offer free live streaming of baseball (and most other sports) games. Most or all offer links to streams from overseas that are carrying U.S.-based sources; that is probably illegal copyright violation, and we do not list any of them here.
MLB TV: available as standard or premium (a bit more expensive); prices vary yearly, and usually drop mid-season; note that “blackout and other restrictions apply”, meaning that their “every game” claim is tainted (surprise, surprise). Note that you can get around those blackouts by subscribing to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service—a few dollars a month—which makes it look to the servers as if you’re somewhere other than where you physically are. Also note that MLBPA (the MLB Players Alumni Association), which is open to anyone who wants to pay their modest $25 “Home Run Fan”annual dues, can get MLBTV for half price (a feature not listed on the linked page).
DirecTV “Extra Innings” package: if you have DirecTV satellite service, this package, at (when last checked) $150 a year for a full MLB season, but also includes the MLB.TV service described just above.
CBS Sportsline: very complete—even a pitch-location display.
ESPN Scoreboard: another very nice display, though often prone to glitches. Select “Gamecast” for the game you want to follow.
Fox Sports/MSN: shows count, but only refreshes every 30 seconds (at fastest setting).
In addition, FanGraphs has interesting in-game analytic statistics and graphs; it’s worth a look.
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