sabermetrics
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Manufactured Runs: Hero Worship by Colin Wyers
Baseball Prospectus &bull Sep 3, 2010
If you'll indulge me for a moment, let's take a step back and talk a bit about sabermetrics - not baseball, but sabermetrics baseball analysis in general, I suppose. You won't need to do any math for this, either. This is… Full Story »
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On the Beat: Building Something Special by John Perrotto
Baseball Prospectus &bull Aug 27, 2010
Considering the Athletics were among the very first major-league teams to embrace sabermetrics, it is only fitting that manager Bob Geren believes he has found the formula for success. While Geren's formula is not mathematical in nature, the numbers of… Full Story »
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Bird Land: Cleveland, Ludwick & the Prospect Problem
STL Today Baseball News &bull Aug 1, 2010
DOWNTOWN -- Few potential trade partners can have as much knowledge of the St. Louis Cardinals' minor-league system than the two teams involved in Saturday's three-way deal that brought Jake Westbrook here and sent Ryan Ludwick there. Since moving into the big chair, general manager John Mozeliak has made a series of trades with the Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres, and each of them involved a righthanded reliever of some sort. The Padres got Mark Worrell (RHP RP) and Luke Gregerson (RHP RP) in one deal; the Indians got Chris Perez (RHP RP) and Jess Todd (RHP RP) in… Full Story »
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Herd: Show in Review July 30
Keith Law on MLB on ESPN &bull Jul 30, 2010
...Bengals are still a running team, despite the talent at wide receiver. Palmer - ESPN's Keith Law talks about how MLB teams' scouting departments worth with sabermetrics theories to build winners. He also... Full Story »
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Bloops: Patrick Flood's Mets Blog - Exile on 126th Street: WAR problems and the Mets Crazy Horse.
Baseball Reference Blog &bull Jul 20, 2010
If you are a serious stathead and are curious about the differences between our WAR numbers as produced by Sean Smith and those on Fangraphs.com check out this two part (very extensive) set of posts by Patrick Flood. Very worth… Full Story »
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Can we objectively evaluate advanced fielding data?
The Hardball Times &bull Jul 16, 2010
Colin has an article at Baseball Prospectus today that is required Sabermetrics 101 reading. It's been linked already in the THTLinks Twitter feed this morning, but it deserves more prominence and more discussion. This is an article of fundamental importance for the baseball analysis community. Anyone who… Full Story »
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Ballbug: Red Sox reflect on Steinbrenner (Peter Abraham/Boston Globe)
www.ballbug.com via @HolyCow_1 &bull Jul 13, 2010Yankees' Steinbrenner dies at 80 - Longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died Tuesday morning, his family confirmed in a statement. Discussion:Boston Globe, Yahoo! AP: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies - NEW YORK (WABC) - The Associated Press is reporting New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died… Full Story »
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Ubaldo vs. the benchmarks
The Hardball Times &bull Jun 14, 2010
Arguably the best pitcher in baseball right now, Ubaldo Jimenez sports a Bob Gibsonian ERA of 1.16 along with the Major League high of 12 wins. Of course his low ERA has been helped greatly by a low BABIP of .232 and the Majors highest left on base percentage (LOB%) of 91.3%. Those numbers are heading towards regression, although his BABIP might stay around lowest in the Majors due to his stuff. And his "stuff" is what going to talk about next. Hardball Times own Harry Pavlidis attempts to classify every pitch captured under MLBAM's pitch… Full Story »
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Is the BIS data right?
The Hardball Times &bull Jun 9, 2010
The Fan Graphs website displays a full plate of baseball statistics ranging from traditional counting numbers to sabermetrics to scouting data. Their scouting data comes from the Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) company which serves Major League Baseball teams and publishers… Full Story »
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- Baseball
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Red Sox to the right, Astros to the left
Keith Law on MLB on ESPN &bull Jun 1, 2010
As a stats-savvy fan, there are two things you should pay attention to during the MLB draft, which starts Monday. One, of course, is who your favorite team picks; you can find Insider's mock drafts and latest prospect news here.… Full Story »
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Expanded Horizons: Two Dogmas of Sabermetrics by Tommy Bennett
Baseball Prospectus &bull Jun 1, 2010
In 1951, W.V.O. Quine published his landmark paper, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism." That set of beliefs-logical positivism-sought to deny that any statement that was not empirically verifiable had any meaning whatsoever. What Quine showed was that the two eponymous beliefs, which he derisively called dogmas, were necessary to logical positivism but also false. There exists, I think, a certain set of analysts in baseball who adhere to a sort of logical positivism. That belief is demonstrated by the drive to completely separate outcomes from processes, despite the fact that such cleavage is not actually possible. For example, to eliminate the… Full Story »
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Memorial Day Remembrance: Hugh Mulcahy by John Perrotto
Baseball Prospectus &bull May 31, 2010
I have accrued enough memories in 23 years of covering the major leagues to last five lifetimes, covering World Series, League Championship Series, Division Series, All-Star Games, and a World Baseball Classic. I have had the chance to interview and… Full Story »
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WAR Data: Best Catcher Seasons Since 2000
Baseball Reference Blog &bull May 24, 2010
This entry was posted on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Play Index, Sabermetrics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from… Full Story »
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WAR Data: Best Position Players Not In the Hall of Fame
Baseball Reference Blog &bull May 19, 2010
Here's a post concept that's sure to be a lightning rod for discussion: who are the best position players not to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Using Baseball-Reference's new Wins Above Replacement data, we can attempt to… Full Story »
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10 for 10: #7 Player Wins Above Replacement
Baseball Reference Blog &bull May 17, 2010
Sabermetricians have always been on the search for the best way to measure wins contributed by players. Baseball Prospectus has WARP, Bill James has win shares and now we are presenting Sean Smith's Wins Above Replacement or WAR data on the site. Career WAR leaders --Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, and Dwight Gooden year-by-year WAR data (just below their batting stats). A couple… Full Story »
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Sabermetric Fielding: Adam Everett's Legendary 2006
Baseball Reference Blog &bull May 12, 2010
A Gold Glove-caliber shortstop season is typically around +15 runs, and Everett had nearly three times that many in 2006! Everett, while a legit GG-like SS in 2004 2005, had never approached that +40 figure before and hasn't since, but… Full Story »
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Sabermetric Fielding: 2010 Los Angeles Dodgers
Baseball Reference Blog &bull May 11, 2010
It would be easy to point to the loss of 2B Orlando Hudson as the chief reason for the Dodgers' 2010 defensive decline, but the truth is that almost all of the holdovers from 2009 have slipped as well. Throw… Full Story »
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Rotary Talk
Baseball Musings &bull Apr 26, 2010
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Can Jorge possibly keep up his contact and swing rates?
River Avenue Blues &bull Apr 20, 2010Like all teams, the Yankees faced a number of questions heading into the 2010 season. Could they continue to perform in the face of even loftier expectations? Would their new acquisitions adequately replace the departed? Can the veterans keep up their production? This last question concerned… Full Story »
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Lunch at Williams
Baseball Musings &bull Apr 16, 2010
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