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Cubs Top Prospects and the Hot Stove

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Award Week for Major League Baseball continues on Tuesday with the announcement of the AL Cy Young winner. Chris Coghlan of the Marlins and Andrew Bailey of the A's were named NL and AL Rookie of the Year on Monday. With Coghlan taking the trophy, Geovany Soto will hopefully return...
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What the hell happened with Geovany Soto? A crude estimation of his luck-neutral production

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We were discussing Soto’s ******, ****** 2009 luck in the last thread. In a previous post, MB pointed out that Soto’s batting average on balls in play (BABIP) and its expected value (xBABIP), based on his hit-type distributions were a whopping 63 points apart in 2009...
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Is Geovany Soto Being Shopped?

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The 2008 NL Rookie of the Year is coming off a horrible season but is Jim Hendry shopping his catcher? According to a report from Baseball Prospectus on the eve of the GM Meetings in Chicago, "Catching has become an increasingly difficult position for teams to fill, yet there...
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2009 Cubs and xBABIP

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Here are the 2009 Cubs starting position players BABIP and xBABIP (I used this handy tool): Player BABIPxBABIP Soto 0.2510.314 Lee 0.3330.308 Fontenot0.2810.317 Theriot 0.3270.335 Ramirez 0.3310.306 Soriano 0.2800.305 Fukudome0.3140.332 Bradley 0.3110.322 Lee...
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