What Do the Statistics Say about Roger Clemens’s Steroid Use?

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Stand By Your Man
Published 1/28/2008 by Sooze at Babes Love Baseball
... to offset the decrease in speed of his regular fastball caused by aging." Next thing you know, this guy is gonna invent the gyroball. Since the release of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has gone on record with an internet video, newspaper columnists and most recently, Mike Wallace on CBS' 60 Minutes. In every instance, he denies his former trainer, Brian McNamee's allegations of having ever used steroids. Next. Story. Please. [Newsday] | [Sabernomics] | [Baseball Musings]

Sabernomics: What Do the Statistics Say about Roger Clemens’s Steroid Use?
Published 1/29/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Sabernomics: What Do the Statistics Say about Roger Clemens’s Steroid Use? Fresh from taking in an FDA Epitonine game...JCB digs deep into the Clemens statistical report. Clemens’s study looks at his performance in reference to the changing playing environment of the league. For many potential reasons (e.g., new ballparks, expansion, juiced balls, etc.) the run environment dramatically changed over the course of Clemens’s career. To combat any bias from this, the authors of the study compare Clemens’s ERA to the average of the league, looking at the difference. It is no ...

Bradbury: Rocket Not Boosted
Published 1/29/2008 by WW Staff at WasWatching.com
Today's recommended reading: J.C. Bradbury's conclusion that Roger Clemens pitched without the aid of steroids. Makes you wonder if the Lidocaine and B-12 even helped too?

The Clemens Report
Published 1/29/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
... . I think they had a chance to make a good case for Roger here, but by cherry picking data, they end up giving the opposite impression. Dugout Central agrees with me that the report didn't prove its case. Sabernomics, however, takes the data and does a better job than the agents of showing positive evidence toward Clemens being clean. .

The Verdict Is in on the Clemens Report
Published 1/30/2008 by PostmanE at FanHouse
... Anyway, an unlikely argument on behalf of Clemens' case came from the excellent Sabernomics yesterday. After lots of research and stuff, their findings: ...

Published 2/9/2008 by thecincinattikid at Sedition in Red Sox Nation
... I cannot provide a statistical rebuttal of the assertions made in this NY Times feature. I don't have the academic background, I have less than zero interest in mathematics (after all, we all know math is the mother of all lies and the uncle of most half-truths) and this blog did a much better job providing a statistical defense of Roger Clemens than I can ever do. ...