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baseballanalysts.com - 35 hours ago
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Catcher defense is one of the more enigmatic
areas of baseball study. It has developed relatively independently
of other position player defensive analysis. This is probably because, although catchers field some ground balls and pop ups, their main defensive contribution is very different from ...
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A Pitchf/x Look at Passed Balls and Wild Pitches
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baseballanalysts.com - 2 days ago
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Jason Bay and Matt Holliday are the two
best hitters on the market. Holliday is a year
younger than Bay, and will likely command a more lucrative contract. If you'd like to know how they stack up in left field, check out ESPN's recent articles analyzing the matter. But I’d like to ...
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Holliday-Bay: Visual Scouting Reports 1.0
baseballanalysts.com - 3 days ago
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Zack Greinke won the 2009 American League Cy
Young Award yesterday, capturing 25 of 28 first place
votes. I am going to dive into Baseball Reference's Play Index to try and gain some perspective on Greinke's 2009 season, but first let's have a look at a couple of mainstream baseball pieces ...
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On Greinke and Things Related
baseballanalysts.com - 4 days ago
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The MVP and Cy Young Awards are closely
upon us, and soon we'll know this year's choices.
As you know, the balloting for these awards is done by two baseball writers from each city. I'll spare the indignation about why award choices are limited to just two BBWAA members when there are a host of ...
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MVP Award Balloting: Is It Fair?
baseballanalysts.com - 5 days ago
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"People ask me what I do in winter
when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I
do. I stare out the window and wait for spring". — Rogers Hornsby With the holiday season fast approaching, it's time to begin putting together your wish or gift list. You can do your part to stimulate ...
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Holiday Shopping Ideas
baseballanalysts.com - 8 days ago
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First there was the error. A century later,
we finally have the natural antithesis to the error:
the Web Gem. The good people over at ESPN track all the best defensive plays in baseball on a daily basis, and come up with that short minute segment which is often a highlight of my night. This ...
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With the Jumping and the Diving and the Whole Thing
baseballanalysts.com - 10 days ago
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Baseball and statistics go together like peanut butter
and jelly. The fact is, just about every position
on the field can be successfully evaluated with numbers. But, in my opinion, the catching position is one spot that requires closer inspection. Rating receivers is hard to quantify because ...
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Exploring the Intangibles of Catching
baseballanalysts.com - 10 days ago
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Throughout baseball history, there have been a number
of memorable positional rivalries that have unfolded within broader
team battles. The 1950's in New York come to mind, when Duke Snider , Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays were all playing center field for their respective clubs. The Yankees ...
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Here's the Catch: Jorge Posada & Jason Varitek
baseballanalysts.com - 11 days ago
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With the end of the World Series last
Wednesday, the season is over and the Hot Stove
League has begun. While there has always been a Hot Stove League, the general feeling is that it has become more intense since the advent of free agency since a plethora of players are easily available to any ...
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Economic Theory and Player Movement Throughout Baseball ...
baseballanalysts.com - 12 days ago
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What a pleasant surprise it was to receive
a review copy of The Bill James Handbook 2010
on Halloween Day before the third game of the 2009 World Series. The Handbook is not only the first baseball stats annual to hit the market each year but the most comprehensive as well. The book, ...
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The Bill James Handbook 2010
baseballanalysts.com - 15 days ago
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Everyone loves end of the season superlatives, so
I thought I would join the fun and present
2009's best pitch. First let me say that this is a shameless rip-off of John Walsh's original 'Searching for the game's best pitch' when he looked at the 2007 season's best. I use Walsh's metric which ...
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The Best Pitch of 2009
baseballanalysts.com - 16 days ago
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What if I could just punch a couple
lines into my computer and get to see the
strengths and weaknesses of a player in graphical form? Harry Pavlidis does a good job using pitchf/x data to give a brief summary of pitchers, and Dave Allen is like King Midas graphing with R. I've set out to ...
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Visual Scouting Reports (Beta)
baseballanalysts.com - 18 days ago
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The Phillies found themselves in a 3-1 hole
going into Monday night. Luckily for them, they had
their ace, Cliff Lee, on the mound for them. But the Phillies bats went into overdrive for them as well, putting up six runs in three innings. After three, the Phillies had a commanding 6-1 lead, ...
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Should the Phillies Have Pulled Cliff Lee With A Big Lead?
baseballanalysts.com - 22 days ago
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With the 2009 World Series well underway (split
one game apiece between the New York Yankees and
the Philadelphia Phillies), let's take this opportunity to break down each club to see how, where, and when each club obtained its talent. The Yankees organization has a long-standing reputation ...
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World Class Talent: Where Does It Come From?
baseballanalysts.com - 23 days ago
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A few weeks ago, Max Marchi wrote an
article for The Hardball Times analyzing pitchers' fastball velocity
trends throughout the year. Last year on THT , Josh Kalk developed a preliminary aging curve for fastball velocity. Both Marchi and Kalk used pitchf/x data, which began being recorded ...
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A Quick Take on Velocity
baseballanalysts.com - 24 days ago
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The World Series begins tonight and it should
be a real treat for baseball fans everywhere (except
maybe those in LA). The Fall Classic doesn't always produce great match-ups, but this year the playoffs have produced a doozy. The 2009 Series features an outstanding a Yankees team and a good ...
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A World-Class World Series
baseballanalysts.com - 25 days ago
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Two days before Game 1 of the World
Series, three managerial moves dominated the Major League Baseball
headlines. The San Diego Padres officially announced Jed Hoyer as their General Manager , the Cleveland Indians named their new Manager, Manny Acta , and the St. Louis Cardinals made Mark ...
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Baseball Analysts - The HR Files
baseballanalysts.com - 26 days ago
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I'm looking forward to tonight. John Lackey vs.
CC Sabathia in Game 7 of the American League
Championship Series. But wait... The Yankees beat the Angels, 5-2, in Game 6 last night to win the AL pennant and advance to the World Series. Darn. That lead-in was what I was hoping to ...
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Los Angeles Angels: A Look Back and a Look Forward
baseballanalysts.com - 29 days ago
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Unfortunately Rich's Dodgers are out of it, but
they had a solid season and reached the NLCS
for a second year in a row. His Angles, on the other hand, won two of three in Anaheim and the series heads back to New York. The series resumes with weekend Saturday, and potentially Sunday, with the ...
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Angels Send the Series Back to New York
