deadspin.com - 10/17/2009
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Read Part 1 here . Modern analysis has shown a whole treasure chest of interesting and often useful performance metrics, but it remains so that the bedrock principle of classic analysis is simple: out-making controls scoring. What I call "classic" analysis is the principles that I presented ...
tnr.com - 10/19/2009
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tnr.com —
Whatever happens in the National League and American
League Championship series unfolding over the next week or...
so, one outcome has already been decided--the effective end of the theories of Moneyball as a viable way to build a playoff-caliber ...
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Against 'Moneyball'
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/15/2009
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Notes Pitching guru Rick Peterson may have a
couple options. He has interviewed with the Brewers to...
become their pitching coach, and his close relationship with Willie Randolph from their days together with the Mets before they got fired together ...
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Could Angels' John Lackey return to Texas as free agent? ...
bostonherald.com - 10/14/2009
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bostonherald.com —
T he Red Sox [ team stats ]
hope Billy Wagner was only venting. Wagner s comments...
in yesterday s edition of the New York Post hinted at the 38-year-old strongly considering retirement after the Red Sox early dismissal from the playoffs. His agent, ...
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Billy Wagner possible hang
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Eric Walker And "Moneyball"
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Deadspin has a two-part article from Eric Walker, the man who brought progressive baseball analysis to Billy Beane and the Oakland A's. Walker, from his 1982 book, The Sinister First Baseman and Other Observations: In baseball, some numbers are known, some are not, and the meaning of most of them can be debated. But there's one number everyone knows and agrees with: three. Three outs and you're gone. Period. The end. All runners cancelled, all theories moot, all probabilities zero. That number must, in any rational evaluation of the game, ...
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Billy Wagner told the New York Post that he plans to retire in the offseason.
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firebrandal.com 10/13/2009 — In what is the first curveball in an early off-season, relief ace and potential closer replacement, Billy Wagner, has been considering possible retirment.
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The Forgotten Man Of Moneyball , Part 1 [Moneyball]
deadspin.com 10/7/2009 — He calls himself "the pebble that started the avalanche," the man who taught baseball analysis to Billy Beane . Gandhi, someone wrote, sparking MLK's revolution. Today, Moneyball remains a hotly debated phenomenon . Eric Walker is a footnote. ...
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duelingcouches.blogspot.com 10/13/2009 — "Billy Wagner has 385 saves in his major league career, and he's said before that 400 is a milestone he hopes to achieve. Perhaps it's not a major priority for him after all. According to a report in the New York Post this morning, the 38-year-old lefthander, who was acquired by the Red Sox ...
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metsblog.com 10/15/2009 — Bean Stringfellow, the agent for former Met Billy Wagner , told reporters that Wagner has no intention of retiring.
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nybaseballdigest.com 10/13/2009 — Mike Puma of the NY Post reports that former Mets pitcher Billy Wagner told the paper yesterday he’s planning to retire rather than pursue a closer’s job.
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Billy Wagner To Retire?
soxanddawgs.com 10/13/2009 — When the Boston Red Sox acquired Billy Wagner in a trade with the New York Mets, they knew they weren’t going to re-sign him. Sox GM Theo Epstein planned on offering Wagner arbitration so that if Wags declined and signed somewhere else, the Red Sox could get two draft picks.
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