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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 7/2/2008 on blog.baseballdigestdaily.com [flag]
Many bemoan the new wave of stats espoused by Bill James, Baseball Prospectus, The Hardball Times etc. However, the light ... [link]

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BBD: Brattain: Could Sean Forman have saved Mickey Mantle’s career?…
Published 7/2/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
BBD: Brattain: Could Sean Forman have saved Mickey Mantle’s career?… Cripes!...Over the weekend Sean Forman couldn’t save me from drowning in Diet Cokes. (GLUG-GLUG numbers can be found at B-Ref Play Index) To give an idea of how different the leagues were in 1968 and 2007 let’s look at what an average player produced those years… 1968 AL .238/.307/.352 2007 AL .271/.338/.423 What would Mantle’s 1967-68 totals look like today? Mantle’s 1967 season in 2007’s environment .289/.444/.509 Mantle’s 1968 season in 2007’s environment .292/.453/.490 Sadly, Mantle felt he was done ...

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