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How Much Is Herm Worth?
On the right rail, larry linked to Jeff Zimmerman of BTB who, using Josh Hermsmeyer's free injury time database, generated a table of games missed by team including percent of sala...
Mets Starting Lineup WAR Per 700 Plate Appearances
(click to embiggen) -- partially inspired by this post Using the BaseballProjection WAR database, I calculated the career WAR per 700 plate appearances (roughly one full season) of the projected Met...
Rockies WAR Lords of the Diamond Update
Since my column on Saturday, not much has changed with the Rockies' 25 man roster plans beyond the addition of some pitching depth in the form of minor league deals for Tim Redding, Justin Speier...
Advanced Statistics Primers -- Updated
Alex Remington of Big League Stew has been putting together a series of excellent posts about various advanced statistics, most of which are cited around here. Check them out: BABIP OPS+ FIP wOBA WPA ...
How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGrap...
2009 Catcher Defense: Filling in the Holes (yet again)
Even if you aren't a FanGraphs junkie like myself and so many others, if you spend any time there looking at the WAR rankings in order to, say, evaluate who should be the 2009 MVP candidates, you've u...
Zack Greinke's 2009 in the Stream of Time: The 11 Greatest Seasons by Starting Pitchers Since Pedro's 1999
Well, it's pretty much over. Pretty much. Unless Justin Verlander throws 18 shutout innings of relief in today's game, Zack Greinke has got the "real" (i.e., "internet") Cy Young locked up (and, as I'...
WAR Lords of the Diamond: Greatest. Rockies. Ever.
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP I SP Now that I've discussed the greatest Rockies ever by position according to WAR, I'll sum...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Starting Pitchers)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by ...
2010 Yankees Center Field Showdown: Melky Cabrera vs. Brett Gardner vs... Cody Ross?
In a recent Pinstriped Bible blog posting, Steven Goldman argued that while Melky Cabrera might be adequate for the moment as the starting center fielder for the Yankees, that the club should lo...
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