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And it was Clemens pitching this game (20K, 0 BB, 1 HR):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS198604290.shtml
Against Murray Dickson (shutout, with 15 baserunners, including 4 doubles):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN195406091.shtml
Clemens gets the ...
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Cy Young
I see no reason for the existence of this kind of compensation. It doesn’t exist in other sports for “free” agents, and it would not exist in MLB if we started from scratch.
To the extent that it does exist, then Sky captures my sentiments exactly .
Glove ...
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In the CFL , they have 4 teams in the East and 4 teams in the West division. The top 2 of each division is guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. The other 2 spots are filled by whoever has the most points of the remaining teams. If it happens that you have both spots from the ...
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For decades, it was fans reacting to writers’ selections for the major awards. Now that two non-traditional writers were admitted into their midst, it is the Holy Writers who are outraged. You see, these two guys dared to be the ONLY writers not to vote for all three of the ...
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Keith Law
Will Carroll
A good reference list for tracking.
1. Matt Holliday...seven years, $120 million
2. Chone Figgins...three years, $21 million
3. Mike Cameron...two years, $20 million
4. Andy Pettitte...one year, $13 million
5. Marco Scutaro...two years, $14 million
6. Johnny Damon...two ...
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Non-sports post.
I love the idea .
Right now, everyone hates the idea of the audit because it’s a losing propositiion for you. At best, you end up at the same spot. At worst, it’ll cost you money. So, there’s pressure by the taxpayers on the IRS, via ...
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NY Times’ Tyler Kepner reports that he said :
“That’s pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible,” Greinke said.
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As Bill James said on an unrelated matter:
To address the question on a somewhat more sophisticated level. . .changing opinions is not a ...
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Zack Greinke
Bill James
As they explain :
What do I mean? Well, statistics, documented research, and analysis must be the core of the paper; however, stories can help to explain these. In Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin’s book, The Book, they examine baseball theories through advanced ...
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Sky asks and proposes :
Using this WAR scale (9.4 points for a 1st place finish, 8.3 points for 2nd place...5.9 points for 10th place, and 5.5 points for unranked players) would probably be the most fair ballot weighting system. How does this compare with the system MLB actually uses? While ...
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Sauer and Hakes were kind enough to give me their dataset. As you know, I took exception to their findings, because I don’t believe their model captures the reality of baseball . That while they did a great job in identifying the parameters to study, the way they combined ...
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I LOVE when others do all the heavy lifting. Makes my life easy. This time, Saber Rattling (great name) compiles all the data, including the most important value: expected WAR . And, he provides the data in a perfect format. Let’s see what we’ve got.
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One of my readers made this request. If someone from MLB (or sports-related company) is interested, email me, and I’ll hook you up.
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Suppose I get all players born since 1895 who had at least 300 PA from the ages of 27 to 36 (they may have played before 27, they may have played after 36), and we only focus on their stats at those ages. I count 179 players. Here are their average LWTS per 700 PA, at each age:
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Baseball Prospectus has two key signature stats for offense: RARP developed by Clay Davenport and VORP developed by Keith Woolner.
Exactly what is the difference between the two?
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The locked-out workers of Quebec’s largest circulating newspaper, Le Journal de Montreal decided to create their own website (named after the street name of its newspaper), and setup shop across the street from the head office, while it continues to picket. Quebecor is a media giant ...
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I put it on Google Docs . Here is my first example:
You can click the image to see it better. Ok, so what do we see? The data on the left is if you use the 2001 coefficients. The data on the right is the 2004 coefficients.
Player 1 is an OF/1B, player 2 is ...
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I remember when we had Canadiens season tickets, there was a group of 8 of us that split the 40 home games (80 tickets). We were still in our 20s, and lucky for us, we all worked together, and walking distance from Le Forum. It was fairly easy to do the draft at lunch time. We ...
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Seattle Mariners
JC says :
For example, the other day I pointed out an excellent study by economists Jahn Hakes and Skip Sauer that examined baseball’s labor market at Baseball Think Factory . A commenter responded “Tangotiger hates the Hakes & Sauer paper”; I guess I was supposed to ...
