fangraphs.com - 12/5/2008
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If there’s been an underlying theme to my writing here over the last year, it’s been that defense is significantly undervalued in MLB. Well, it seems like people are catching on. From the latest Peter Gammons’ article :
“The other thing is that teams are moving away ...
baseballprospectus.com - 12/5/2008
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baseballprospectus.com —
There’s a lot of discussion about defense and
defensive statistics coming into vogue, especially with Peter Gammons...
stating that teams are realizing that the negatives of defense take away from even big positives on offense. Manny Ramirez , ...
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Defense
philly.com - 12/1/2008
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philly.com —
It has been a relatively quiet month as
the Phillies try to tweak their World Series championship...
roster. Things could pick up soon. The Phillies have until tomorrow to offer salary arbitration to their four free agents: lefthander Jamie Moyer, ...
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Off-season to get busier for Phillies | Philadelphia ...
philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com - 12/1/2008
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philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com —
PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies will likely offer binding
salary arbitration to Type A free agents Jamie Moyer...
and Pat Burrell by Monday's midnight ET deadline, ensuring Draft pick compensation should either or both sign elsewhere. By doing so, the team ...
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Burrell, Moyer likely to get offers | phillies.com: News
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Dave Cameron, who's been an advocate of fielding stats and insight for a long time, has a fine post up at Fangraphs about fielding and inferential statistics. Bottom line, even the best fielding stats are inferential—and they always will be. The problem with fielding stats that we can count (and don't have to infer) is that they don't tell us much. ...
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