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Have a post up on Baseball Digest Daily about my conversation with Royals’ starter Brian Bannister today. Read all about it there. I just wanted to restate my thanks for Brian for taking extra time out to talk to me for a bit. Also Brian says he’s going to be doing a semi-regular thing on […]

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According to this report federal witness par excellence, Brian McNamee, is saying he injected Roger Clemens’ wife with HGH before a Sports Illustrated swimsuit photoshoot in 2003. I’m torn as to what I believe here. The rumor is that you can judge whether people take these types of substances by the size of their heads. […]

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Well this is interesting. Other than my brief comments there, I have little to say. Let’s face facts, whatever Brian Bannister has to say on the subject is infinitely more interesting than anything I could say at this point. Interesting reading about a big leaguer who at least approaches some of his job from a […]

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These are, as best as I’m able to calculate, the pitching totals for non-pitchers in MLB from 1946-2006. IP H HR BB SO ERA BFP HBIP lgHBIP 313.2 370 44 206 139 6.51 1505 .298 .278 Now it’s possible I screwed up with database and don’t have the right numbers, but I looked it over […]

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Part 1 here. One of the things I always wanted to do with DIPS was to come up with a bit more rigorous way of calculating runs via only DIPS stats (BFP, HR, BB, SO, HBP). I’d always BSed it in the past, and the way I’m going to do it now is only slightly […]

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An article in the Chicago Sports Review, (H/T) Baseball Think Factory, got me to thinking about Curt’s Hall of Fame case. Looking at Schilling’s Baseball Reference page, the site lists two direct contemporaries, Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina, as close similarity matches.

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As you probably know, the Boston Beaneaters went up one game to nil nothing over the Denver Bears in the 2007 World Series with a 13 to 1 victory (the Beaneaters donated one of their two extra points to the Bears in a fine show of sportsmanship). I always ponder DIPS whenever I watch an […]

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