puristbleedspinstripes.com - 17 days ago
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Please see Part I for acknowledgments.
Let’s start with the 2009 postseason.
We take the Magic Calculator Thingy and input the following:
Innings pitched: 16.
Fangraphs’ FIP: 2.28
Next, we go to Baseball Reference and click on the ‘postseason’ tab. We look at ...
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 17 days ago
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Special acknowledgement: This is far and away the
most advanced, in depth thing I’ve ever tried. Without...
question, the best similarity I can come up with is asking someone who’s taken only high school Economics course to run the IMF, that’s basically what’s happened. As ...
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How Many Championships is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part I
espn.go.com - 21 days ago
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In the wake of yet another brilliant postseason
performance, Dave Allen looks at Mariano Rivera's pitches and...
goes a fair piece toward explaining just...
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What makes Mo so great
puristbleedspinstripes.com - 17 days ago
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Please see Part I for acknowledgments. Hey, so
now that I’ve missed the last 100 years or...
so, what’d I miss? Anyway, here’s what we’ve got in terms of a final tally: Year PREWAR Converted PREWAR 1995 0.200 2.64 1996 0.145 0.712 ...
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How Many Championships is Mariano Rivera Worth? Part IV
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River Avenue Blues —
The following is a guest post by Rebecca Glass of This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes. You can read her (slightly longer) versions on her site, in four parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. We’re republishing it here because a) it took a lot of work and b) it’s really meant to be read as one article, anyway.
Special acknowledgment: This is far and away the most advanced, in depth thing I’ve ever tried. Without question, the best similarity I can come up with is asking someone who’s taken only high school ...
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Beyond the Box Score —
A history of MLB parity, part 1 (part 2)
Type B free agents had a higher average 2008/2009 WAR than their Type A counterparts
The Great General Manager Debate: NL Central edition
Did Moneyball increase the correlation between OBP and salary? Maybe.
How many championships has Mariano Rivera been worth? (part 2, part 3, part 4) Hint: the answer is 2.
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