Whois & Analysis for baseball-reference.com

Baseball-Reference.com is a website providing baseball statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history.

The site is often used by major media organizations and baseball broadcasters as a source for statistics.

It offers a variety of advanced baseball sabermetrics in addition to traditional baseball "counting stats".

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

A total of 30 teams now play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league.

The NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively.

After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000.

The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs.

With the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding.

or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan.

Locally, it is often called, meaning Professional Baseball.

Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball".

The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the in 1934 and the original Japanese Baseball League.

NPB was formed when that league reorganized in 1950.

In baseball, a complete game (denoted by CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher.

A pitcher who meets this criterion will be credited with a complete game regardless of the number of innings played - pitchers who throw an entire official game that is shortened by rain will still be credited with a complete game, while starting pitchers who are relieved in extra innings after throwing nine or more innings will not be credited with a complete game.

A starting pitcher who is replaced by a pinch hitter in the final half inning of a game will still be credited with a complete game.