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It's Nice to See Professional Sportswriters using VORP
High and Tight. — ... I don't have a lot of big bones to pick with David Pinto's article, and he's actually making a decent effort to use sabermetrics. Bully on him. ...

AL Offenses
baseballmusings.com — ... December 12, 2007 AL Offenses My latest column at SportingNews.com examines if the moves made by the Tigers are enough to move them ahead of the Yankees offensively . Posted by David Pinto at ...

TSN: Pinto: After trades, stat work says Tigers still trail Yankees, Red Sox
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — TSN: Pinto: After trades, stat work says Tigers still trail Yankees, Red Sox Holy Hypodermias! A Mitchellist-free article! Players with career years likely will fall back to their career norms. Hitters with off years in ‘07 likely will improve. Older players might decline because of age, while someone like Cabrera still is young enough to expect improvement. There are a number of such prediction systems available for players. One of the oldest is published in the Bill James Handbook every year, and those numbers form the basis of the prediction. One of the tools available ...

Projecting the 2008 Red Sox
YFSF — ... (essentially no change from 2007), and  5.95 runs per game under the Bill James numbers (a slight increase). It should be noted that Pinto uses Pedroia at leadoff, Youkilis second, Drew fifth and Ellsbury eighth in his lineups, which probably would result in a better-scoring scenario (but not by a significant margin). ...