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Brian says :
In Arlington, a batter is 18% more likely to have a batted ball coded as a LD, which may have helped Milton Bradley to have the 2nd highest LD rate in 2008 - while in Minneapolis, it’s 20% less likely. Four of the lowest six LD rates belong to Michael Bourn, Geoff Blum, Ty ...
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Houston Astros
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The Sutters are the closest thing we have to Canadian royalty in hockey. Six of the seven brothers played in the NHL (the oldest one stayed home to take care of the farm, and all the boys, during the NHL summers, came back home to tend the farm), some of them have been or are NHL coaches ...
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The reference is to Cheers, the bar. Use this thread in a good spirit of posting whatever you want that might interest others.
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"Winning Margins: A New Way to Rate Baseball Excellence” , Baseball Digest, November 1975
“Big League Fielding Statistics Do Make Sense!” , Baseball Digest, March 1976
“Double Trouble: - Pitchers Who Win 20 games and Hit .300” , Baseball Digest, May 1976
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Bill James
Just thought I’d put it out there for those in the same position as I was:
for i in * old *; do mv $i ` echo $i | sed 's/old/new/' `; done
This renames all file names that have “old” in it to ...
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The history of outdoor hockey .
To the naysayers: if you don’t like a Radiohead concert, go see a Celine Dion concert.
To the enlightened: yes, you can have fun with Radiohead, Celine and Dora Live on Stage. Hard to believe, but it is possible.
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This applies to any sport:
“I always feel like I have been taken advantage of every year and in the playoffs especially. I am one of those season subscription holders that is seriously considering bailing out next year.” That’s too bad, but it’s exactly the way it should work. When some fans ...
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Wezen has it for you.
He was probably the “most feared” in 1978. Other years, Schmidt and Brett and Eddie Murray (and on and on) were more “feared”. In any case, the two stupidest arguments about the Hall of Fame ("he was the most feared of his ...
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Eddie Murray
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Jim Rice
A professor of ethics wrote an article on the Hardball Times website , to which there are many many many comments, which have also spilled over to Keith Law’s blog.
Not my cup of tea, but for those who like camomile…
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Keith Law
A nice review, to which he provides a conclusion in the comments section of this blog .
And yes, we had nothing to do with any of the editing in the reprint version published by Potomac. We had everything to do with the editing in the original self-published version. The content ...
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Jose de Jesus Ortiz :
Some of you want Tim Raines in, but I don’t see how you can put Raines in with Henderson. That would diminish, in my opinion, Henderson’s standing.
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Tim Raines
Rickey Henderson
I won’t vouch for the results, though David does have all the components in place. From 2002-2008, Darin Erstad produced $28MM in value, but it cost his teams $40MM. That just some of the fun you can have with this…
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Darin Erstad
Courtesy of JC.
Good list. That’s the Bill James book I’d go for as well. I haven’t read the Schell book, but I will finally get it, seeing that David Smyth considers it a must-read as well, from several years ago. The others are all appropriate at those ...
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J.C. Romero
Bill James
With so much of this being discussed at Primer and Fangraphs, I figured it was time to update my process to use the latest data from MGL’s bUZR. So, sit back, and prepared to be numbed by numbers:
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Studes :
Every year, when I send the final PDF out to ACTA for publication, I swear I’ll never do it again . Creating the THT Annual is a huge process. It begins during the season and pretty much consumes me from mid-September to mid-November.
That’s scary.
I think if ...
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