Fungoes Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
http://fungoes.net/ - Official blog of the St. Louis chapter of SABR
Click on the "hype it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of Fungoes, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
With so much of society regressing these days, it’s encouraging that in a small area of American culture, things appear to be progressing: the voting record of the BBWAA. Today, they unveiled their pick for American League Most Valuable Player , Minnesota’s Joe Mauer.
Was the ...
MLB
Joe Mauer
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston Red Sox
[Note: The United Cardinal Bloggers are conducting their third-annual Cardinal Blogger Awards. Following are our ballot and explanations. If you have any questions or complaints, please contact our agent, Keith Law.]
1. Cardinal Player of the Year
Matt Holliday
Albert Pujols
Brendan ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
fungoes.net - 3 days ago
—
fungoes.net —
Zack Greinke and Tim Lincecum (who, incidentally, was
our pick ) have now won this year’s Cy
Young Awards . Neither led his league in wins; each was either first or second in strikeouts. Does that mean that wins don’t matter to the voters ...
(more)
Do strikeouts matter more to Cy Young voters now?
Comments
vote down
C70 At The Bat
found this 3 days agofound this
Before anyone reads Joe Strauss’s article today and cries foul on the Cardinals for not prioritizing Jason Bay, we wanted to dispel a couple of bits of, well, misinformation in Strauss’s dispatch. First is Strauss’s claim that
Bay’s offensive numbers parallel ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Matt Holliday
Jason Bay
[Note: This is the second of a two-part retrospective on the Cardinals' 2009 transactions. We overlooked a couple of important offseason transactions last time, so we'll cover those before getting to the in-season moves.]
Agreed to terms with Ryan Ludwick and Rick Ankiel
The Cardinals ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
fungoes.net - 10 days ago
—
fungoes.net —
Judging by ERA, Seattle’s Erik Bedard (2.82) and
Los Angeles’s Randy Wolf (3.23) would appear to have
had the best seasons of this winter’s crop of free-agent starting pitchers (min. 70 IP). But did they? Expected Fielding ...
(more)
How “lucky” were they? A look at FA starting pitchers
As fans look ahead to the trades and signings of this offseason, it may be instructive to look back at the transactions of the season recently concluded. In his second full season as general manager, John Mozeliak wasn’t afraid to shuffle the deck; with the advantage of hindsight, ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Now that baseball’s second season has begun (or, given that the playoffs now take more than a month, third season), fans have two things left to do: Discuss trades and signings or vote in meaningless online polls. It is the latter that inspires today’s post.
The Cardinals’ ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
With seven of the Cardinals’ nine potential free agents declaring their liberty yesterday, let’s review each player taking into consideration his type and projected value for 2010 (based largely on the Bill James Handbook projections).
Player
Type
Filed
‘09 salary ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Matt Holliday
The voters got one right: Hideki Matsui deserved the World Series MVP award .
Amongst a handful of heroic performances, Matsui’s was most valuable. Chase Utley tied Reggie Jackson’s series home-run record and Cliff Lee turned in the fourth-best fielding-independent start of ...
MLB
Hideki Matsui
St. Louis Cardinals
fungoes.net - 20 days ago
—
fungoes.net —
Alex Rodriguez has apparently “learned” clutch-hitting skill after
all of these years. By the way, if ARod
can suddenly stop being a playoff choker, does that mean that Chase Utley could someday lose his clutch-hitting skill? Player ...
(more)
2009 World Series: Cumulative WPA through Game 5
Considering the ballparks where this year’s World Series is being played, it’s not surprising that multiple balls are flying out of the yard each game. By regular-season rates, the Yankees and Phillies are right on pace for their expected number of circuit clouts this series and ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium
Inspired by Cliff Lee’s masterpiece in Game 1 of the World Series last night, we decided to see where the outing ranked among the great pitching performances of the Fall Classic. We tweaked* the formula for Fielding Independent Game Score, so here’s where Lee falls:
Rk
...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Cliff Lee
[For the last few days, we've been participating in the United Cardinal Bloggers fall roundtable discussion, in which a member blogger poses a question to the group each day. Today's question comes from Daniel of C70 at the Bat .]
What is one move you’d like to see Mozeliak do during ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Atlanta Braves
Matt Holliday
[For the last few days, we've been participating in the United Cardinal Bloggers fall roundtable discussion, in which a member blogger poses a question to the group each day. Today's question comes from Josh of Pitchers Hit Eighth.]
How much of a circus is it going to be with Big Mac in the ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Mark McGwire
[For the last few days, we've been participating in the United Cardinal Bloggers fall roundtable discussion, in which a member blogger poses a question to the group each day. Today's question comes from yours truly.]
What was the most amazing, misleading, bizarre or otherwise interesting ...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
Matt Holliday
Total win-probability added for players in the 2009 National League Championship Series (data from Fangraphs).
Here’s a game-by-game look:
Player
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Total
Howard
.154
.156
.155
.098
.025
.588
Rollins
-.051
...
MLB
St. Louis Cardinals
[For the next few days, we'll be participating in the United Cardinal Bloggers fall roundtable discussion, in which a member blogger poses a question to the group each day. We'll post the responses to our question tomorrow; today's question comes from Mike of Stan Musial's Stance .]
...
