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Betancourt Trade Analysis Using Trade Value Calculator
Today's trade of prospect Connor Graham for Cleveland Indians reliever Rafael Betancourt brought to the forefront of my mind a new tool that was developed by Sky Kalkman of Beyond the Boxscore: the Trade Value Calculator. Basically, Kalkman has developed a fantastic spreadsheet that, using...
Met Pitchers Release Points From Last Night
(click to embiggen) This is from the catcher's point of view, and the units are feet. The only surprise here is I figured Feliciano's release point would be lower. Thanks to Beyond the Boxscore for tips on how to create these PITCHf/x graphs. They should be useful this season for visually...
Ollie's Afternoon Via PITCHf/x
I'm still figuring out my way around this awesome PITCHf/x stuff, so bear with me. R.J. at DraysBay and Beyond the Boxscore put up a nice post yesterday about PITCHf/x, which can be used to analyze anything from pitch movement to how good an umpire is during a given game. Data can be pulled from...
Reader Contest!
This contest idea is borrowed from Beyond the Boxscore (which got the idea from Pro-Football-Reference). Here are the rules, also via BtB and adjusted for our contest: Below you will find 16 pairs of numbers. In each case, you tell me which number will be bigger in the 2009 season. One point for...
Optimizing the Reds Lineup By The Book
Sky Kalkman over at Beyond the Boxscore has been talking a lot lately about building lineups going strictly by The Book. Not the Old-School, Dusty Baker, Manufacturing Runs and Causing Havoc Book, but this Book. He does all the exegesis in his article, so I'll let you pop on over there to read it...
Beyond the Boxscore hosting live chat at 2pm ET
The SB Nation sabermetrics blog Beyond the Boxscore will be hosting a live chat today at 2pm ET, so if you're a numbers dork, are bored and wanna talk some baseball, or just want to spam them with questions about Rich Hill's command problems or Felix Pie's offensive upside, totally feel free to do...
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