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Get Your Baseball Publication Here

Posted in Around the Web, MLB, Projections, Rays, Sabermetrics on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Those of you who have been following my site for a while know I am big time into fantasy baseball. In past years,  my favorite resource for getting ready for the draft and the baseball season is USA Today’s must see LABR draft issue. The LABR issue comes out in late March. Until then, there [...]

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Better to be lucky than good?

Posted in MLB, National League, Sabermetrics on February 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Over time, I have read plenty of articles that talk about contact rate .  As you improve the amount of times the ball hits the bat, the better the chances are your batting average improves: take the example of a hitter whose real skill is to hit home runs 8% of the time he puts [...]

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Learning new tricks

Posted in Around the Web, Astros, Defense, MLB, Sabermetrics on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Each year, on the internet and in the blogosphere , through the use of collaboration, new ideas and methodologies are brought to the forefront. It was most recently, I learned about Chris Dial’s OPD . That came about after I was searching for 2009 PMR data, and was surprised to see that they were not [...]

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Playing the WAR game

Posted in Sabermetrics, Uncategorized on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is a stat that combines measures of all aspects of a player’s value to create one total figure that expresses the player’s value in terms of wins provided to his team: contains measures of both offensive and defensive value for non-pitchers is expressed in terms of wins uses a replacement-level baseline [...]

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New Year 20-10 Tape Measure Blasts

Posted in Around the Web, Free Agent Signing, Sabermetrics on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Over the Christmas holidays, the N.Y. Mets unwrapped their Bay City Rollers gift.  When one looks back at Jason Bay’s resume, you have to like his numbers. HR: 2nd in AL 36 TOB :13th in AL with 245 TB 15th in AL with 285 OPS: 8th in AL: 921 On the defensive side of the [...]

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Joe Maddon Contract Extension

Posted in American League, Manager, Rays, Sabermetrics on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We  already considered Joe Maddon as a new age, forward thinking, manager based on embracing of the sabertmetrics.  Of course, there is also the infatuation with Malcom Gladwell’s Blink as suggested reading for all his players.  It was last season Maddon stunned the baseball community in 2008 with his 9=8 math .  The Tampa Rays [...]

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Gary Carter Needs To Crack a Book

Posted in Around the Web, Catcher, Manager, Sabermetrics on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last year when the heat was on Mets Manager Willie Randolph, Gary Carter threw his name into the ring as someone who could do the job. The timing of this came out bad for Kid Carter , as it looked as if Gary was adding to the fodder that “Willie Must Go” movement in many [...]

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In the Zone

Posted in MLB, Sabermetrics on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ultimate Zone Rating  (UZR) is the most effective and comprehensive measurement of a player’s defensive ability. The statistic judges what the chances are that a ball in play will be able to be converted into an out depending on how hard the ball was hit, what zone it was hit to and whether it is [...]

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MLB Network Does Not Get Pecota

Posted in American League, National League, Sabermetrics on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Before my eyes as I turned on the television, the MLB Network this morning was covering   Baseball Prospectus – Pecota projections. Talk about a grass roots movement making it into the mainstream media. But, Haryold Reynolds and Barry Larkin had to ruin my breakfast when they started dismissing the sabermetrics .  Reynolds says that player [...]

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NL: Total Bases Per At Bat Leaders

Posted in National League, Sabermetrics on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »

One statistic that often I find missing from when talking about good offensive player is  total bases. Total bases is the number of bases a player has gained with hits. It is weighted by 1 for a single, 2 for a double, 3 for a triple and 4 for a home run. The top 3 [...]

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