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Note: This is not in defense of Keith Law’s voting order. Please don’t confuse it as such because my points have little to do with how Javier Vazquez or Chris Carpenter pitched in comparison to each other throughout 2009.
Let’s get this out of the way before someone spoils it in the comments: ...
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Keith Law
This afternoon , I mentioned that there may be an opportunity for teams to improve their rosters through diversification rather than purely pursuing upgrades. Let’s take a look at one of the specific opportunities and how this could work practically.
Atlanta, Left Field
The Braves ...
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Atlanta Braves
fangraphs.com - 16 hours ago
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Jim Thome has been an excellent hitter for
a long-time. However, he's also a DH-only and will
be 39 going into next season. What will he really be worth on the free agent market?
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Jim Thome
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General Manager: David Dombrowski Farm Director: Glenn Ezell
Scouting Director: David Chadd 2006-2009 Draft Results: First three
rounds included x- over-draft signees ($200,000+) 2009 1st Round: Jacob Turner , RHP, Missouri HS 2. Andrew ...
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Detroit Tigers: Draft Review
fangraphs.com - 26 hours ago
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Free agency started 10 hours ago, and as
of today, teams are free to spend money in
the market to upgrade their rosters. A lot of teams will do just that, selecting from the available pool of free agents to fill holes on their roster or replace ...
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Adding Value
Aaron Heilman joined his fourth organization in the last 12 months tonight. Last year Heilman was part of a three-way deal that landed him in Seattle. Prior to the start of the regular season he was shipped to the Cubs and today he avoided being non-tendered and was instead sent to Arizona.
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Chicago Cubs
Arizona Diamondbacks
Aaron Heilman
Two days ago, the BBWAA ignored win totals and gave Zack Greinke the American League Cy Young award. Today, they did it again, giving Tim Lincecum the NL version despite having only 15 victories, the fewest of any Cy Young winner in the history of the award. Despite my long-winded explanation ...
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Cy Young
Tim Lincecum
Note: While the following isn’t technically a book, it’s very close to book-length. This was unintentional. On the plus side, Ken Arneson knows how to rock the mic right.
Readers will remember Ken Arneson both/either from the etherview that appeared in these electronic pages a ...
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fangraphs.com - 47 hours ago
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General Manager: John Mozeliak Farm Director: Mike Girsch
Scouting Director: Jeff Luhnow FanGraphs’ Top 10 Prospects (
2009 Draft Picks/International Signees Not Included ) Honestly, this is a pretty barren system, in terms of ...
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St. Louis Cardinals: Top 10 Prospects
Congratulations to Zack Greinke for his not only Cy Young season, but historically great season . For us here at FanGraphs it is especially nice for a stat-loving guy to win.
Greinke throws four- and two-seam fastballs, a change, a curve and a slider. A couple days ago Harry Pavlidis checked ...
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Zack Greinke
fangraphs.com - 2 days ago
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According to Paul Sullivan , the Cubs will
announce later today that they have re-signed John Grabow
to a two year contract. Previous reports have put the value of the deal at $7.5 million. Once again, we’re witness to the power of ERA as a ...
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John Grabow Gets Paid
Have you ever had one of those occasions where a trip down memory lane leads to acquiring a new piece of information? As you can guess, that is exactly what happened to me yesterday. While sifting through the bargain bin — also known as the minor league free agent list – the name Corey ...
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Corey Patterson
fangraphs.com - 2 days ago
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Following up an earlier post on "overrated RBI
guys," this posts looks more closely at situatoinal numbers
to see if there might be something of a "knack" to driving runs in that is lost in non-contextual stats.
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The 2009 Alternate Universe Carter-Batista Award: RE24 ...
Jerry Crasnick has an excellent article on defensive metrics as they relate to valuing free agents, especially diving into how they affect Matt Holliday and Jason Bay . It’s no secret that, as the hosts of UZR, we’re big proponents of its usefulness. However, I still agree with ...
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Mark Teixeira
General Manager: John Mozeliak
Farm Director: Mike Girsch
Scouting Director: Jeff Luhnow
2006-2009 Draft Results:
First three rounds included
x- over-draft signees ($200,000+)
2009 1st Round: Shelby Miller , RHP, Texas HS
2. Robert Stock , C, Southern California
3. Joe Kelly , ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
fangraphs.com - 38 hours ago
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Yesterday we looked at the best baserunners of
the 2009 season; now let’s finish up by looking
at the laggards. Again, these numbers are taken from Baseball Prospectus’ baserunning metric (EQBRR), which was created by Dan Fox. Stolen bases/caught ...
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Running the Bases – Part 3: The Laggards
Some have expressed interest in the r-squared values for common metrics like walk and strikeout rates for starting pitchers. With that in mind I took each of the pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched in 2008-9 and ran their BB% and SO%. This gave us a sample of 92 pitchers and some numbers ...
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Ubaldo Jimenez
You may have heard that Bill Belichick, the head coach of the New England Patriots, made a controversial decision in Sunday’s night nationally televised game against the Colts. I’m not going to get into the details of the play here – there are tons of football blogs out there ...
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Note: What follows contains little in the way of quantitative analysis. It does mention The Book , however, and that’s gotta count for something.
I believe the readership will agree that, of all the things that are great about wedding receptions, probably the best thing about them is ...
