Who Are These Mets?

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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 12/21/2007 on www.metsgeek.com [flag]
It’s no secret that baseball is changing. Only four years after the publication of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , baseball is overrun by spreadsheet-using stat geeks. However, the best organizations are the ones that combine statistical analysis with a strong scouting base. The Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians are at the top of this game. The most well-known Moneyball ... [link]

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Mets Geek: Peterson: Who Are These Mets?
Published 12/21/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Mets Geek: Peterson: Who Are These Mets? Are the Mets a (gasp!) “Moneyball” type team or something else...John Peterson takes a look. Ignorance of Marginal Value: As good as the Mets are at intuitively recognizing the strength of major league talent, they are poor at determining the relative and marginal value of those players. The team seems stuck in the plug-and-play mentality, where one has “holes” that need to be “filled,” lists of “needs” which are prioritized and satisfied in a linear fashion. The Mets decide that they need “a top starting pitcher,” and they go out and ...

Friday Morning Mets Newsstand
Published 12/21/2007 by Eric Simon <amazinavenue@gmail.com> at Amazin' Avenue
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba bullets! At MetsGeek, John Peterson tries to figure out what kind of organization the Mets really are. Matt Himelfarb has a nice interview with Tim Marchman over at Flushing University. HOF candidate Goose Gossage doesn't much care for Roger Clemens. JC Bradbury thinks he has the solution to this whole HGH hullabaloo: legalize it. It's the last day before the holiday break, so if you need to kill some time whilst avoiding doing any actual work today, Jay Jaffe ...

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The Nationals Enquirer found this 12/21/2007 on www.nypost.com

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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 12/21/2007 on www.flushinguniversity.com

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 One of the most innovative writers in New York, Tim Marchman of the N.Y. Sun was nice enough to answer a few questions for F.U. on the state of the Mets. 1) On to the Mets questions. What's your take on the recent ...
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Some guy on the Mets has a wife.

Rover found this 12/21/2007 on www.bugsandcranks.com

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