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THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball: The Poz goes FJM on Harold Reynolds’ a$$ - gather around the kids
Brew Crew Ball: The Friday Mug
Circling The Bases: Link-O-Rama: Reynolds dislikes stats, paragraphs
baseballmusings.com: Reading Harold Reynolds
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog: Joe Posnanski Blog: Bugging Harold Reynolds
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The Poz goes FJM on Harold Reynolds’ a$$ - gather around the kids
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
Poz is at it again. For all you aspiring takedown artists, this is how it’s done:
8. It’s not a good thing. Well, maybe it can be a good thing, if the power hitter is on a good team. But it’s not a good thing if you have a bad team. Take Adrian Gonzalez. Please! His OPS is going to be high because he hits a lot of home runs and walks a lot. This is because pitchers don’t pitch to him. Yes, when he hits the home runs, they pitch to him, but the other times they don’t. I appear to be confusing OPS with on-base percentage but I’m ...
The Friday Mug
Brew Crew Ball —
... on OPS and statistics. Joe Posnaski broke it down for you, not FJM-Style, but summary-style. Take a guess as to which one I agree with. ...
Link-O-Rama: Reynolds dislikes stats, paragraphs
Circling The Bases —
... premise seems to be that stats are bad, but I'm more intrigued by Reynolds a) thinking that OPS is a hardcore stat, b) using the phrase "clogging the bases" without even a hint of irony, c) touting Dave Kingman as an example of hitters with artificially high on-base percentages when in fact he had a terrible .302 career OBP, and d) apparently boycotting the use of paragraph breaks as a symbol of his stat-fueled rage. Oh, and I'm even more amused by the always awesome Joe Posnanski's attempt to "translate Reynolds' post in 15 steps." (Note: The preceding paragraph was ...
Reading Harold Reynolds
baseballmusings.com —
... Joe Posnanski gets bugged by a Harold Reynolds blog post about OPS. There’s an old saying about writing about what you know, and statistics aren’t Harold’s strong suit. Like Joe, I like Harold Reynolds a lot. If I’m looking for an explanation of how to turn a double play or how to decide to go from first to third on a single, I’ll ask Harold. If I want to know about the usefulness of OPS, I’ll look elsewhere. ...
Joe Posnanski Blog: Bugging Harold Reynolds
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Joe Posnanski Blog: Bugging Harold Reynolds Harold and Joe Go go go!!! Unfortunately, this morning I made the mistake of reading this. That is a blog post, written by Harold Reynolds, that (from what I can gather) tries to explain the … well, I’m not going to lie to you, I really have no idea what it tries to explain. I’m sitting here like a cartoon character with all sorts of question marks and exclamation points dangling over my head in a thought bubble. Yes, I blame myself: I mean, Harold Reynolds is not a writer. And I know that my own feelings about baseball and ...
Joe Posnanski Goes Off On Harold Reynolds Rant
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... So it was a little surprising, and a lot funny, to read Posnanski’s latest “JOEBLOG” post in which he goes all FIRE JOE MORGAN (RIP) on genial MLB analyst Harold Reynolds . Reynolds, in a blog post at MLB.com, pulled the ol’ statistics-hating schtick that ex-athletes generally do, and it damn near made poor JoePo’s head explode. Posnanski’s piece ...
Blogging the Bloggers: A day in the life of Mitch Kupchak, Buzz Bissinger and more
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog —
- LAKE SHOW LIFE got to take a peek at Laker GM Mitch Kupchak’s secret diary.
- SPARTY AND FRIENDS names its All-Busted Gridiron Pen Team, quarterbacked by none other than Mike Vick.
- DEADSPIN’s podcast…err…”Deadcast” features none other than blog-hater Buzz Bissinger.
- SI writer Joe Posnanski tears apart a Harold Reynold’s post on his blog, appropriately titled JOEBLOG.
- THE LOVE OF SPORTS details why they love interleague play.
Defending Harold Reynolds
Beyond the Box Score —
... Except that Joe Posnanski got involved (and while his article could be read as FJM re-incarnated, he actually stated he somewhat agreed with Harold's probable thesis, the fact that OPS is a flawed stat) and when Poz gets involved, everybody else does, too, because, well, everybody reads Poz. (You don't? Go, read him, now.) And then there was merriment among those fans who would probably call themselves statheads about how bad a writer Harold is and how little he understands about stats. ...
Tired Bullpen Applesauce: Mets' rough June, Beltran MRI, the Satchel Paige/Cy Young Award
Amazin' Avenue —
... In civil rights news, Hank Aaron is disheartened about the lack of blacks in baseball, Gordon Edes says the Cy Young Award should be the Satchel Paige award, and Mike Silva asks why bother?
Joe Mauer is good. Magglio, not so much anymore.
Teams have started more rookie pitchers this year than ever before. What gives?
Harold Reynolds doesn't like numbers. Joe Posnanski lovingly chides.
In the Weaver vs. Weaver matchup, older ...
Fish Bites
Marlin Maniac | A Florida Marlins Blog —
... The great, immortal Joe Posnanski (love his work) got on him for the piece, and it prompted Sky Kalkman of Beyond the Box Score to tell everyone to give it a rest, because ...
Harold Reynolds Won't Embrace OPS [Media Meltdowns]
Deadspin —
... "What do you mean?" And they said his OBP could be so much higher if he walked more. The guy gets 200 hits a season! And he scores over 100 runs. I think that speaks for itself. So as the old, wise Dick Williams used to tell me, "I should never have to give you a sign. The situation dictates what happens." The great Joe Posnanski was so discombobulated by this entry he was reduced to babbling about Andrew Dice Clay and the movie Awakenings. No joke. I know how he feels. I'm not even sure where to begin. In the year of our Lord ...
Zzzzzz....
"MyTeamRivals" via MyTeamRivals.com in Google Reader —
... Yeah, Harold Reynolds said something dumb
about OPS or something, too. I think he was just trying to clumsily
point out that OPS isn't perfect and shouldn't be the decisive factor
in determining a player's worth. He's actually right about that. I dunno. I guess it
doesn't bother me that much when analysts don't seem to have a basic
knowledge of stats and how they work because HAROLD REYNOLDS ISN'T
FUCKING RUNNING MY FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM. ...
Baseball: Stats all, folks
Sports Media Journal —
... by MLB Network commentator Harold Reynolds — whose work I have always enjoyed — who takes a puzzling, tortuous path to say he doesn’t buy the importance of the OPS stat (on-base plus slugging percentage). I’d summarize his argument if I could figure it out. ( Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski has a wonderfully off-the-wall reaction to Reynolds’ post in his own blog. Thanks to ...
Daily Box Score 6/24: Cleveland is Frustrated with The Process
Beyond the Box Score —
... So Harold Reynolds walks into a statistics convention--oh, you've heard that one before? Here's one you may not have heard. After all the hubbub over Harold Reynolds' ...
These Weeks' Links (6/15-6/19, 6/22-6/26)
Vegas Watch —
Brandon Jennings made quite an entrance. Steve Lyons really doesn't like sabermetrics. Neither does Harold Reynolds. USC is the favorite to be the next school to commit an NCAA violation. Simmons' draft diary. What's the problem with the Indians? Are golfers more aggressive on par puts than birdie attempts, even from the same distance? Steinberg on the Boston invasion of Nationals Park. Pujols calls his shot. The whole Jerod Morris thing was ...
Joe Posnanski is a good writer.
GoatRiders of the Apocalypse —
... Joe writes some non-sports stuff in addition to his SI cover stories. He's even got his own movie rating scale, which he writes about here (scroll down to the second paragraph in italics). ...
