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Well one thing my career at Baseball Digest Daily will allow me to do is digress into non-baseball stuff. I used to blog about soccer and I miss it so I suppose you’ll see the occasional soccer post on here from time to time. Piotr Nowak has named the team he’s bringing into Olympic…
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My first post is up at Baseball Digest Daily. There will still be plenty of stuff here (mostly clips from Death Race 2000), but I’m going to be posting a lot of stuff at BDD too. This is all part of my plan for global domination and enslavement of the human race.
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Below is a link to an excel spreadsheet which demonstrates the log 5 phenomenon I wrote about seven years ago in today’s post about Bill James and Craig Biggio. Do with it what you will. Grace vs. Pedro vs. Karros vs. Karl
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My dad used to talk a lot about guys he considered to be “cripple shooters”: guys who he thought feasted against lousy pitchers and struggled more than usual against good ones. One particularly common target was Roy Sievers, a slugging first baseman the White Sox acquired in 1960 for future All-Stars Earl Battey and…
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Over at the always acerbic BTF, they’re having a discussion about why Dusty Baker suddenly wants to play a prospect. It appears to have morphed into an argument over Dusty’s merits as a manager. Now far be it from me to suggest that such a discussion is similar to discussing the merits of a…
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The White Sox appear to be looking at Bartolo Colon as a possibility for their 5th starter. Bartolo has continued to post good strikeout to walk ratios but the homers really seem to be piling up. That’s unlikely to improve in the home park of the White Sox. That said Gavin Floyd is similarly…
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I’ve always been a firm believer in basic information as a foundation for making more complicated analysis later on. You have start with the basic info before you start trying to split atoms. In that vein here’s something basic. It’s the projected standings for 2008 based on the Pythag numbers from 2007 and 2006.…
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Well the Giants seem to feel they’ve solved their cleanup hitter problem. Leave aside the fact that a guy with a career 0.411 slugging percentage is no kind of solution in this or any day and age, the real question is why the identity of the cleanup hitter for the Giants in 2008 is…
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Glenallen Hill apologized today for PED use. Here’s some video evidence: My opinion is that if PEDs allowed him to do something like that, then I wan’t more PEDs. If they did not, then such an accomplishment doesn’t deserve to be seen as “tainted.” Either way I think a more rational discussion of the…