World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 4

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World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable
Published 8/4/2008 by JC at Sabernomics
I’m the guest member of this week’s roundtable at Statistically Speaking. We discuss the following questions, and I include a brief summary of my answers below. You’ll need to visit the site to read my reasoning. Why did Adam Dunn stay put? It’s complicated, but the Reds shouldn’t have let this happen. Which player do you see having the “most” impact that will change teams through the waiver wire? CC Sabathia. Have the Boston Red Sox lost their minds? No. Thanks to ...

Statistically Speaking: World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 4
Published 8/4/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Statistically Speaking: World Famous StatSpeak Roundtable: August 4 With special guest, J.C. Bradbury. Question #3: Have the Boston Red Sox lost their minds? Pizza Cutter: There are varying degrees of losing one’s mind, and thankfully because of my “real job” in psychology, I’m the one who gets to decide who’s sane and who’s not. (Someone out there just re-read my answer to question #1 and shook his head at that thought.) To look at the Manny trade as a pure value trade, it’s actually not all that bad. The Red Sox got back Jason Bay who is almost as good as Manny Ramirez and ...

Baseball Today: Tuesday, August 5
Published 8/5/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... in Jason Bay. In a three-person roundtable discussion on the blog Statistically Speaking, the Sox generally get good marks for acquiring Bay . . . though author "Pizza Cutter," who works in psychology when he's not analyzing baseball, muses: "[Let's] examine the premise of 'We need to trade away one of the best hitters in baseball in the middle of a pennant race in which we are fighting for our lives . . . because he's annoying.' " ...

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 ...

Why Did the Brewers Fire Ned Yost?
Published 9/17/2008 by JC at Sabernomics
... The Brewers have been a nice story this season, but they really haven’t been as good as their record. Their performance has to do with the assembled talent, and not Yost. In fact, on August 4, I wrote the following. ...