World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 11

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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 8/12/2008 on mvn.com [flag]
StatSpeak is pleased today to welcome Paul DePodesta to the roundtable. Paul is currently working as a Special Assistant for Baseball Operations (when I asked Paul what his official title was, he said “Ballboy is good enough”) for the San Diego Padres and writing random musings in his blog It Might Be Dangerous… You Go First . He has previously worked as an assistant GM ... [link]

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Statistically Speaking: World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 11
Published 8/12/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Statistically Speaking: World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 11 With DePlaschke fave, Paul DePodesta. Question #1: Are batter/pitcher matchups useful? Paul DePodesta: With the amount of roster movement, the emphasis on young players, and Interleague play, a single batter-pitcher matchup rarely accumulates enough events to become really useful. If a significant number of individual matchups does exist (though that number is probably much higher than we assume), many of them likely occurred years and years ago thereby making them less pertinent. Because of these reasons, ...

Daily Links - 8/12/08
Published 8/12/2008 by roarke (noreply@blogger.com) at Watching the Game
... about the unsigned draft picks as we come up on three days left before the signing deadline. Here is a look at Randy Johnson's peak of dominance. I would have never thought that Johnson would continue to be successful this long. He clearly isn't dominant, or even a #1 or #2 pitcher anymore, but he is still effective as a #3 for Arizona, which is amazing at age 44 for a guy that always was high effort in his delivery. An interesting roundtable discussion here with Paul DePodesta.

I Speaking Statistically
Published 9/10/2008 by Justin (noreply@blogger.com) at On Baseball and the Reds
I was asked to contribute to this week's roundtable discussion at StatSpeak. Leading up to my appearance there, they had roundtable discussions with people like Will Carroll, J.C. Bradbury, and Paul freaking DePodesta. So, yeah...this week has to be kind of a letdown for the StatSpeak crew, eh? :) In all seriousness, thanks again to Pizza Cutter for the chance to contribute. Anyway, click here to see the discussion. We trade views on advances in baseball research, what new data we need to advance fielding statistics, whether one ...