While I was waiting for the White Sox to collapse (which never happened), Jose Contreras seemed to really figure things out by putting together 8 straight wins to finish out the season. Now usually I would take any success Jose Contreras has with a bit of skepticism. This time I think it has to be taken a little more seriously.

Taking a look at his walks per 9 innings graph, he looks to have turned a corner in his ability to throw strikes. He has been extremely inconsistent in the past but this is the lowest and longest he has kept his walks down which is extremely encouraging. The other good sign is that he seems to have learned to keep the ball in the park.

It might have taken a few years, but it seems like he is finally making good on the 4 year – $32 million dollar contract the Yankees originally gave him. With a healthy strikeout rate of around 7 K's per 9 innings, if Jose Contreras can continue to keep his walks down and the ball in the park there's no reason he won't be able to continue his success in the World Series, and next year.

I've added a Columns section to the site. Right now it's only going to be used for site news, but soon there will be a graph of the day column which will feature a new graph every day with additional player analysis. Hopefully this will start as soon as the World Series ends.

I've seen a few of the graphs pop up on blogs and message boards. I think this is great and please continue to use them, but there's one thing that you should know. The image links for the graphs on this site are not static (yet). Any time new data inserted into the database, the image file's date will change. This has to do with the our caching mechanism. So, if you want to use a graph, the only way to ensure that it will be permanent (for now) is to copy the image and host it somewhere else.

We've made a few small changes to the graphs. For the Daily Graphs, you will now only see the years in the range the player has played. The newer players had a lot of useless graph real estate, and there was no reason to have all the players have the same year range for the Daily Graphs. The other change was to the color of the lines on the comparison charts, which makes them a little easier to read.

I've added Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP) for both batters and pitchers. This week I'm planning to upgrade the documentation by putting the glossary back up and supplying some more help on how to read the graphs.

You can now compare up to three player's season stats on one graph. You'll find this under each players “compare” tab. I'll probably begin work on comparing daily graphs a little later.

To compare Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemens click here….

Welcome to fangraphs.com. We are very excited to finally launch. We have been working on this site for many months and we hope that it becomes a useful tool for baseball player analysis.

We have a lot in store for the future and plan to frequently add new features and content to the site, the first of which will be player comparisons. This will allow you to compare one stat for up to three different players on a single graph.

Please have a look around and if you have any questions or suggestions feel free to post in the forums or contact us through the use of the contact us link below.

We would also like to say thank you to Transverse Styles for the forum design, LogoWorks for the logo design, and lastly Baseball Info Solutions for being our stats provider.