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 that is at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
f you look at the National League East, you know the beast of the division in the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. They have so much troubles, they can’t seem to choose among who gets the demotion to the pen when former Met Pedro Martinez joins the team.
Despite the injuries and all the failed expectations [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the TBO, Maddon with the use of his number crunching data gave Aybar the rare start:
“I cannot take credit for that,” Maddon said. “This is something we do back at the office, and we really crunch numbers and do so many things. Willy came out on top versus Greinke.”
Aybar went 4-4 with the game [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I never did understand why the Cubs parted ways with their valuable spark plug Mark DeRosa in the off season. As other players can fill the void, but You win With Mark DeRosa . At first look, it seemed the Cubs were dumping DeRosa’s 5.5 million salary. However, the Cubs GM Hendry has admitted in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As much as I want to lay into the Neal Harrington regime of the Pittsburgh Pirates for trading away the recent face of the franchise in Nate McLouth, its clear they are running the team in what is best for the team in the long term. In this case, McLouth opened up a lot of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a lot of fallout after the Mets firing of Willie Randolph as their manager. I personally thought the relationship between Willie and Reyes had run its course. It seemed like Willie’s first project after taking the job 3 years ago was taking Jose under his wing.
I listened to Mike Silva’s podcast [...]
Posted in Cy Young, MLB, MVP, National League, Rookie Of Year, Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is not the first, nor the second second NL Voting period, but the third NL voting period after six weeks in the books. The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. In doing so, you get a cumulative snapshot [...]
Posted in American League, Around the Web, Cy Young, MLB, MVP, Rookie Of Year, blogpoll on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. The Blog Poll Voters is a group of some of the best writers the baseball blogosphere.
American League Most Valuable Player Vote Week #5
Manny Ramirez – 270 points
Casey Kotchman – 114 points
Josh [...]
Posted in MLB, MVP, National League, blogpoll on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. The Blog Poll Voters is a group of some of the best writers the baseball blogosphere. This week we vote on the National League. This week I am making an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its early on in the season, but if you look down the bench on many ball clubs, several things are already apparent.
Lets start with the Yankees. The Joe Torre era of the past decade will be looked as a period of stability for this great Yankee franchise. With Hank in charge now, he is bringing [...]
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