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Just a very quick note: the 2008 PECOTA
weighted means spreadsheets are available for download here .
We’ve already run almost 1,900 forecasts, including (for the first time) players selected in last June’s amateur draft. The PECOTA ...
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We’ll open up The Mill later this week,
but the grind is already starting in the week-plus
leading into the non-waiver trade deadline. Let’s keep that part of the equation in play, since many teams are already talking about which guys ...
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Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte have been traded
to the New York Yankees , per John Perrotto
. (Guess that meeting in Tampa went well!) We’ll have updates as soon as possible. Update: Peter Abraham is reporting via his blog that Phil Coke, ...
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As we close in on midnight, the draft
is still, well, pretty much a mess, but there
looks to be some direction finally with the Rays at number one overall. It’s not because they’ve made a decision on who is the best player, and it’s not ...
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There’s a couple big stories brewing in Mill
territory, so I won’t wait: * Beware when people
start saying “a deal is close.” Still, it seems like many think a deal *is* close between the Brewers and Indians involving ...
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I’ve made several snide remarks about Ryan Braun
’s third base defense in recent weeks, most recently
in my review of the 50 most valuable players in baseball . I don’t have anything against Ryan Braun; it would be hard for someone ...
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We’ve kept this a little under the radar,
but the first version of the PECOTA projected standings
are fired up and ready to go . For the most part, these numbers conform pretty well to conventional wisdom. In the American League, you have ...
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At this point, if Major League Baseball had
enforced their slotting recommendations by threatening violators with being
exiled to Siberia, I think Scott Boras would be coming to the podium today to announce that the Detroit Tigers had agreed to ...
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Based on a variety of factors related to
need, money, culture, and geography, this is how I’d
set the odds. P adres 4-1 A’s 5-1 [Retirement] 6-1 Angels 10-1 Tigers 12-1 Giants 12-1 Orioles 25-1 ...
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I couldn’t get to sleep last night and
was reviewing my 50 most valuable long-term commidities list
over at SI.com. This list was originally composed back in early May — how quickly things can change in baseball. Biggest risers: CF ...
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According to a press release from the Tigers
, Joel Zumaya underwent surgery on Wednesday after being
injured moving personal items to protect them from the Southern California fires. Zumaya had an AC joint reconstruction performed on his pitching ...
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Although one should maintain a healthy dose of
skepticism about what Ed Wade’s tenure will mean for
the Astros , the former Philly GM has gotten the better of the current one in the just-announced Brad Lidge trade . The problem is not ...
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Hot-off-the-presses PECOTA projection for Kosuke Fukudome in Chicago.
PA R 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB
CS BA OBP SLG EqA VORP WARP 465 80 30 4 15 58 70 94 9 3 .289 .401 .504 .303 29.2 4.4 PECOTA holds Fukudome’s ...
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Lastings Milledge has been mentioned in so many
trade talks that it’s surprising the Sixers didn’t get
him back for Allen Iverson. The latest rumor has him being shipped to the A’s for Joe Blanton . Omar Minaya needs to be...
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Hi, Murray. I write to you as one
baseball fan to another. There are only a few
of us who are fortunate enough to have turned our love for baseball into a career. We are both in that lucky group. That’s why I was disappointed to read the...
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Jon “Boog” Sciambi had Buzz Bissinger on his
radio show recently and … well, it didn’t go
well . However, there was one thing in there that caught the ear of several BPers. Sciambi asked why Bissinger didn’t look up ...
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The original title of this post was to
be “Milwaukee Blows”, but I have a lot of
friends and family in that state (my parents met at Madison, where my dad was briefly in the same graduate school program as Dick Cheney), so we’ll ...
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Disclaimer: there are as many ways to evaluate
projections as there are to create them. This is
a SQuiD (Semi Quick-n-Dirty) method that involves looking at some basic descriptive statistics. I was able to find access to eight projection systems ...
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