About this site

I got to New Jersey in 1981, four years old, and somebody put a Mets cap on my head before I knew what a baseball was. That isn’t a decision you make. It happens to you, and then it’s yours. My kids are Mets fans now, which means I did it to them too.

The rest of my life I have spent in data governance. It’s a field with a dull name and a simple job: knowing where a number came from, whether it can be trusted, and what it actually means. More than twenty-five years in technology, fifteen of them doing that.

Which brings me here. Every night somebody hands you a number about this team. First since 1987. Most in the league since July. Hitting .478 in the ninth inning. Most of those numbers are true. Most of them also matter a lot less than the way they get said, and nobody tells you which ones actually mean something.

So this site tells you. Somebody makes a claim, we check it against the full record, and we report what the arithmetic says in plain English. Sometimes the claim is dead on, and that gets written up too. If every check ended in a takedown, you’d have no reason to trust any of them.

Every piece shows its working. The source is quoted exactly and linked. The data is Retrosheet, which covers every recorded game since 1897. The method has its own page, and the Ledger lists every finding we published alongside every finding we threw away, with the reason attached.

Nothing here is glamorised and nothing is dressed up. Corrections get published rather than quietly edited. If something is wrong, tell me and it gets its own entry.