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Marcel's Retirees, Part One: Position Players
Tom Tango's Marcel the Monkey Forecasting System is similar in concept to the CHONE, PECOTA and ZiPS systems which are often thrown around this time of year. Click here for a full explanation and here...
Saber 101: Weighted On-Base Average (wOBA)
What if I told you that there is a statistic that measures everything a player can do offensively, would you be interested? Additionally, what if that statistic came in a scale that you already know w...
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 ...
Separated at Birth? Milton Bradley and Nick Johnson
Musing about baseball when I should have been doing something else (you won't be surprised to find out that this a fairly frequent activity for me), it struck me that Nick Johnson and Milton Bradley h...
Saturday Lunchtime Royals Links
I was rays before rays was cool. Jenn Sterger on Twitpic Fire Dayton Moore: Our wOBA experiment results for the RoyalsFire Dayton Moore: Our wOBA experiment results for the Royals Dayton Moore...
Statistical Metrics and what we do with them
Over the past several months, Counting Rocks has introduced numerous new tools to put into our statistical toolbox to attempt to quantify the performances of the players on the field. A lot of questio...
Tidbits Jim Tracy should watch for as we roll down the stretch
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Troy Tulowitzki’s 1st halves: 2007 and 2009
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Stats On The Fourth Of July
I saw this post by Regis at Metsblog and was inspired to write about a popular topic - the use of statistics by fans and bloggers. Here are some snippets from the post: The Mets have the fewest...
Miguel Olivo's Fascinating, Remarkably Dumb, Almost Useful, 2009 Season
Thanks to a .333/.364/.786 run in his last 44 plate appearances, Miguel is now hitting .257/.287/.493 on the season. His slugging percentage is easily the highest of his career, as is his wOBA, which ...
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