This Week in News and Sabermetrics: 4/6-4/12

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Statistically Speaking: Seidman: This Week in News and Sabermetrics
Published 4/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Statistically Speaking: Seidman: This Week in News and Sabermetrics Statastic idea by Seidman here...but never heard of Beane Count before? Interesting Bits of Tid Well, the Tigers finally won a game after starting the season 0-7 and worrying the moustache off of Jim Leyland (not in a literal sense). Unfortunately, any hope of a winning streak was put to rest when Tim Wakefield took the mound the next night. Two weeks into the season the team expected to score 1,000 runs in 162 games (6.17/gm for anyone wondering) has scored 28 runs in 9 games (not 6.17/gm for anyone ...

Cain Watch #3
Published 4/16/2008 by Eric Seidman at FanGraphs Baseball
... have gone 16-7 in his decisions if pitchers were awarded wins for every well-pitched decision and losses for every poorly pitched decision. Based on how bleak the outlook appears for the Giants I have every reason to believe the string of bad luck will continue. That being said I have decided to track each of his starts. To read the recaps of his first two starts, click any of the links below: Cain Watch #1 WPA, 4/1/08 Cain Watch #2 WPA, 4/7/08 Cain’s third start of the season ...

Cain Watch #4
Published 4/21/2008 by Eric Seidman at FanGraphs Baseball
... 2007 was the unluckiest season of at least this decade. Seeing as the Giants have a bleak outlook this trend should continue. His first three starts followed an extremely simple pattern of: good, bad, good. In pure Cain fashion, he did not receive a decision in either good game but earned the loss in his poorly pitched game. To get caught up on his season visit any of the following links: Cain Watch #1 WPA, 4/1/08 Cain Watch #2 WPA, 4/7/08 Cain Watch #3 WPA, ...