Major League Stats and Rules
Baseball-Reference.com
The ultimate site for all kinds of statistical information on players, teams, etc.
Fangraphs
Source for WPA, lots of statistical graphs; Phillychuck-Recommended™
Retrosheet
Everything about nearly every game ever played...
Official Rules of Major League Baseball
Official Rules of Baseball, as provided at mlb.com (.pdf file)
Minor League/Amateur Stats and Information
Minor League Baseball
Official site of the National Association (minor league). All about the minors!
Minor League Audio Links (MiLB Gameday Audio)
Phillies Minor Thoughts
Matt Winkleman's site for thoughtful discussion of the Phillies' minor league system and players. Matt is an alumnus of the Phuture Phillies site, now sharing his insights on his own excellent and informative site.
Phuture Phillies
Fan blog focused entirely on the Phillies' minor leagues and minor-league prospects.
Baseball America
Some good free stuff, and the premium content comes with the magazine at the right price.
2080 Baseball
2080 Baseball provides scouting and player development content focusing on talent from Minor League Baseball, college, and high school programs throughout the United States – as well as international players – who are on the radar screen of Major League Baseball clubs as potential future stars of the game.
Perfect Game
Perfect Game produces the very highest national level individual player showcases and team tournaments all over the United States.
The Baseball Cube
All kinds of baseball statistics; excellent secondary source (after baseball-reference.com) of minor league player stats.
Baseball Research / Historical Sites
Baseball Prospectus
Arguably the web's best sabremetric site.
Baseball Almanac - Phillies Page
Franchise leaders, "fast facts," rosters, Opening Day lineups, uniform numbers, box scores, schedules, scores, splits, and more!
Inside the Book
Tangotiger's research - great, original insights into the game!
Philadelphia Athletics
Website of the Philadelphia A's Historical Society. Photos of stories of baseball's days gone by; gift shop with memorabilia, clothing and books of the A's, Phillies, and baseball history in general.
The Business Side
Cot's Baseball Contracts - Phillies
The definitive source for information on current player contracts. Also has the best glossary of transaction, waiver, option, draft rules you will find anywhere.
MLBPA Key Documents Page
Links to the current MLBPA Agent Regulations, to the Basic Agreement (the CBA), to the current Major League Rules, to the Joint Drug Agreement - all the rules and regulations affecting Organized Baseball, linked on one page.
MLB 2020 Operations Manual
NOTE: I have not been able to find a copy of the 2021 Operations Manual. If/when I do, this link will be updated. The formal, legal compendium of special 2020 rules, on-field and off-field, as obtained and posted by The Houston Chronicle.
2020 Ops Manual Secs 5 and 6.pdf (218.9 KB)
This is Sections 5 (On-Field Operations) and 6 (League Operations and Transactions) from the above-linked 2020 Operations Manual. These are the sections that relate to special rules, roster limits, transactions, etc. - the stuff we care about! This is a .pdf file which will download to your computer.
MLBTR Summary of Special 2020 Roster Rules
A plain-English summary of all the special rules in the above-linked OMB official document
Additional Baseball Sites
Baseball Analysts
A treasure trove of good baseball writing, data, and insights.
Baseball Think Factory
Baseball news from newspapers and blog sites and also has other attractions like the Transaction Oracle and Dan Z's Zips numbers.
The Hardball Times
The best stuff on the net, with stats, too.
MLB Trade Rumors
All the rumors fit to print...and sometimes they even get it right!
Baseball Musings
Fantasy stuff, with good writing and analysis.
