The Return of the Baseball Abstract? No, the next best thing…
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
... I have not yet seen the latest Hardball Times annual, but studes promises it is even better than any previous editions, and I loved the previous editions. I also thank studes for including my article in the same book as our nation’s best sports blogger, Joe Posnanski. (I’d call him our best sportswriter, but the pool of available talent is greater in the blogging world.) ...
Monday Mendozas
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... as they try to establish themselves as a credible franchise, financially. His conclusion is the same as mine: We don't know yet, and won't for at least another year. The Rays play in a mid-sized market with a lot of small-market problems. Maybe now that they've won, they'll sell a lot more tickets and attract a lot more TV viewers. Or maybe they won't. • I think there's an excellent chance that you'll like this book .
Monday Applesauce
Amazin' Avenue —
... Yankees have sold the rights to Darrell Rasner to a team in Japan, which perhaps gives Rasner a chance to make a better living for himself than he would have as a farmhand with the Yanks. Tyler Kepner has more.
Speaking of the Yankees, are they overbidding for C.C. Sabathia? Possibly. Some Red Sox fans are hoping the Yankees do sign him (scroll down to reason #947, via Ken Davidoff's baseball insider).
The Hardball Times Annual sounds awesome. Go pre-order it from ACTA Sports.
Seven of ESPN's "experts" picked ...
The 2009 Hardball Times Annual
ShysterBall —
It ships next week, and based on Dave Studeman's description of it, it sounds really sweet: • We boosted the amount of writing in the book, from 32 to 40 awesome articles. That's a 25 percent increase! • We recruited even more of the best baseball writers we know. Guys like Rob Neyer, John Dewan, Joe Posnanski, legendary sabermetrician Craig Wright, Don Malcolm (the editor of the Big, Bad Baseball Annual) and many other fine writers all agreed to come on board. • We revamped the format of our season review, putting more ...
The Hardball Times Annual
The Crawfish Boxes —
The Hardball Times Annual
I bought this last year and I have to say it was incredible. The Hardball Times is where the latest and most innovative ways of conceptualizing the game are taking place and their annual is your ticket to the ground floor of it all. ...
AaronGleeman.com — ... and sports.As one of those freelance contributors I'm obviously biased, but clearly sites like MinnPost will continue to pop up all over the country as newspapers continue to shut down. Good writing and reporting is not limited to ink on a page and given some time to develop the online world will become a fine home. Sadly my last contribution to The Hardball Times came in mid-2006, but my little baby is all grown up and thriving without me thanks to the hard work of Dave Studenmund. ...
Joe 2.0 Vs. Joe 1.0: “General Joe” Just As Good As “Clueless Joe”
WasWatching.com —
... So, I had a chance to take a sneak peek at Mitchel Lichtman’s “The Manager of the Year” feature in the 2009 Hardball Times Baseball Annual. (Thank you ...
Monday Mendozas
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... championship before he turned 10! •The Hardball Times Baseball Annual is out , and after spending some time with my copy over the weekend, I can heartily recommend the book (and that would be true even if I weren't in it).
We Shall Not Be Saved
Baseball Analysts —
... , invited me to be a guest on the network's show last Sunday. The purpose of the interview was to discuss an article ("We Shall Not Be Saved") that I had contributed to The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009, which is ...
Run Preventing Events - 2008
Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog —
... the RPE% seems to be good for identifying effective pitchers but sometimes it gives surprising results. From Table 1, we can see that Nate Robertson (RPE%=51.4) ranked a lot better on RPE% (28t h in the AL ) than he did on ERA (53rd or dead last). Robertson had a league average ground ball percentage and walked batters in only 8% of plate appearances (league average = 10%). However, when he did give up a line drive or a fly ball, it tended to end up really bad. According to The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009 , he allowed more runs per line drive than the average ...
Beyond The Box Score Nominated For Best Sports Blog Of 2008
Beyond the Box Score —
... The Hardball Times, especially, is taken for granted more than it should be. There is some amazing stuff over there on a high-frequency basis, they led the charge on public defensive metrics (via RZR), they have some great stats (xFIP, OF arm ratings), and it's completely free (thanks, studes, et al). In fact, let's turn this BtB-pimpage into a plea for our readers to buy the Hardball Times Annual. Do it! ...
We Have A Graphs Contest Winner
Beyond the Box Score —
... Congratulations to VictorW, who created the winning entry for our graphs contest. He'll receive a copy of The Hardball Times 2009 Annual, chocked full of forty articles from excellent authors (including Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski, John Dewan to name just a few.) His winning flowchart walks us through scary territory -- the mind of Dusty Baker: ...
