Trying to Find Baseball Statistics? Here Are the Top Three Sites to Use

Baseball season is starting and you need to research baseball stats online from last year in order to not screw up your fantasy draft. Then, once the season starts, you need to follow the stats of every player on the Cubs, because that's your team, baby! What are the best baseball statistics websites to give you the information you need to be the best fan you can be? Here are the top three websites to follow baseball statistics:

MLB.com provides baseball statistics without distracting images. It's raw numbers here, which makes it the best place to find baseball stats online. On the upper left-hand side of the front page there is a convenient player search box, both current and historical. You also have sortable player stats and team stats. MLB.com is also great to check minor league stats. That guy that needs to follow the Cubs stats every day is me, and I can follow the stats of all their minor league players just by going to my team's MLB.com page.

ESPN.com is a very fan-friendly baseball statistics website. The front page gives you the league leaders for all the major stats. Additionally, there are quick and easy links to aggregate team batting, pitching, and fielding stats, as well as sortable stats. Two unique features of ESPN.com is the quick link on the front page to all-time stats and other resources. The all-time stats page will give you all the historical information you'll ever need. The resources page will give you things like hitting streaks and attendance.

CBSSports.com baseball statistics website is similar to ESPN.com's baseball stats front page. Next to the league leaders in each category is a picture of the respective leader. It's especially fun to look at when they don't have a picture of the player (they put a picture with a black outline of what the player would look like). When the players are traded mid-season, it's always good to see a picture of someone like Manny Ramirez there, but still in a Red Sox uniform. Anyway, the point is, if you're a hardcore stats guy, you don't go to a baseball statistics website to look at pictures.

When looking for baseball stats online, these three websites are the best out there. Check out your favorite team, research the players for your fantasy team, look at the league leaders, sort stats in ways you can't even think of, and see how many steals Rickey Henderson had in 1982 (130). Search away!