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2010 Hitter Projections
20 days ago by
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Are available on Baseballprojection.com.The Pitcher projections are still in process, and will be several weeks away. I have the hitter overall projections on the team pages, but do not have the individual hitter pages like last year's. The 2009 Projections are all intact, just...
Lack of recent posts
September 30, 2009 by
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Mostly, it's frustration with the comments. The spamming jackoffasaurs who post what look to be automated requests to come visit their stupid little scam site. I tried comment verification, I tried requiring registered users. Nothing worked. I don't have the time to clean up...
Fill out your scouting report
August 28, 2009 by
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Check out the scouting report by and for the fans. This is a great resource, really every bit as good as having access to the scouting reports teams keep secret.Link
Kazmir is an Angel
August 28, 2009 by
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In what looks to be mostly a salary dump, the Angels pick up Scott Kazmir, who was one of the better young pitchers in baseball from 2005 to 2008. I knew he was having a down season, but didn't realize he was 5.92 ERA bad. He missed a month due to injury. Since he came back, he...
Angels Come to Camden
August 17, 2009 by
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I went to see the Angels and Orioles play on Saturday night. It was a well pitched game by John Lackey and a solid Angel victory. I met Matt Welch and his dad at the game, along with a friend of mine from college who's also an East Coast Angel fan, and attended the game with his...
The Number of the Beast
August 17, 2009 by
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Woe to you oh earth and seafor the devil sends the beast with rathbecause he knows the time is shortlet him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beastfor it is a human numberits number is six hundred and sixty six-Iron MaidenThis is not the first time I've quoted Number...
Updated Angel Projections
August 13, 2009 by
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I did this on Halos Heaven.Link
How to Evaluate Catcher Defense
August 04, 2009 by
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At least part of it. I remain agnostic as to how much impact a catcher's game calling has on pitchers. I use retrosheet, though you can make a reasonable approximation with data from Baseball-reference, Fangraphs, or Hardball Times.Data needed: Innings caught, Stolen bases allowed...
Minor League Defensive Stats
August 03, 2009 by
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I've worked with Jeff Sackmann from Minor League Splits to apply the TotalZone defensive calculations to the minor leagues. We've done all the full season leagues through July 31st. Jeff provides the raw data, which he gathers from MLB gameday files, and I run the calculations...
No Roy Halladay
August 01, 2009 by
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I really like Roy Halladay. I would have loved to see him add to the Angel staff, and I still hope to one day see him win his 300th game in an Angel uniform for real, as he has already done in one of my MLB the Show video games.But I can't complain about the Angels holding on to...
The Value of Bobby Abreu
July 16, 2009 by
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According to Fangraphs, he's already earned more than double his 5 million 2009 salary, at 10.5 million. He hasn't hit too many homers, but with a .396 OBP, 19 steals, and 58 RBI, he's been a joy to watch. His value goes beyond the stats though, as Torii Hunter gives him...
Top 500
July 11, 2009 by
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The top 300 lists have been replaced by a top 500 list.
Timelining
July 11, 2009 by
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Are the players of today better than players of the past? If so, how much better? These are not easy questions to answer. It is possible to construct a study to estimate it. David Gassko did such for The Hardball Times two years ago, and did a good job, producing very reaonable results...
Best Player, pound for pound
July 06, 2009 by
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This post got me thinking. Is Ichiro the best player pound for pound?The answer is no, it's still Albert Pujols. But Ichiro does come in second. I took each player's career wins over replacement, and converted to a rate stat, wins per 12000 plate appearances. In other words...
Updated Wins Above Replacement
July 05, 2009 by
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I've made a few changes:1. Add a column for reaching on errors for batters.2. Cap the replacement column, which is based on plate appearances, at 4 PA per game. The batter will be evaluated as if he has the lessor of 4 PA per game, or his actual plate appearances. This eliminates...
Highest Leverage Index of All Time
July 03, 2009 by
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...Or at least 1954, the years retrosheet has play by play files for.I sorted my career pitcher log by career leverage index, which measures the volatility of a game (1 is average, 9th inning, 1 run lead is high, 7th inning, 12 run lead is low). Since there are some pitchers who came...
Updated Hitter Projections
June 30, 2009 by
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The player pages haven't changed, but I did add a hitter update in an excel spreadsheet on the right hand side of Baseballprojection.com.Some things that are not yet in the new program: Runs, RBI, SB, CS, and any estimate of playing time. For every player I just project 350 plate...
David Wright
June 24, 2009 by
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I've been reading this thread on David Wright. It made me wonder what the proper weights are for projecting a player, varied by the component. I looked at strikeout rate, walk rate, homer rate, and BA on balls in play. The hitters I used are guys who had 400+ AB in 4 straight years...
Outfield Ratings for pre-Retrosheet
June 22, 2009 by
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A few weeks ago I asked people to rate, on a scale of 1-5, the defensive play fro some outfielders who played from 1900 to 1950. Only 3 people answered the call, but I'll take what I can get (thank you to those who helped), and compare them to my system, JAARF (Just Another Adjusted...
Praise for a few announcers
June 20, 2009 by
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The normal thing for bloggers to do is wait for announcers to say something stupid, then write a post explaining exactly how they are stupid. Whole websites have been built around this concept. Sometimes, though, credit is due.Today's game of the week features Tampa Bay and the...
Fact Check for Rob Dibble
June 16, 2009 by
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I generally try to ignore most of the blabbering from the announcer's booth during games. But sometimes they just get on their points and just keep hammering at it, getting on my nerves. So I have to put my 2 cents in through the small forum I have into the baseball world, this...
Raw Power
June 13, 2009 by
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I was checking out some of the new data released by MLB, hit f/x, which tracks the ball after it makes contact with the bat. I'm not going to be able to attend their conference in San Francisco, and I don't know how to do all the perl coding that downloads the games and parses...
2009 Draft
June 09, 2009 by
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Picking back to back with the 24th and 25th picks, the Angels take a pair of high school outfielders. At #24 it's Randal Grichuk from Texas, and at #25 Michael Trout from New Jersey. I don't know anything about either, but I like the names and the idea. The Angels haven'...
1970 World Series was Tainted
June 08, 2009 by
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I was watching an Orioles classic game, game3 of the 1970 world series against Cincinnati, when the announcer said this, very matter of factly, about Red's pitcher Tony Cloninger:Striken with a mysterious eye ailment in 1967. A reaction from steroids, and uh, he was nearly blind...
Randy Johnson 300 Wins
June 04, 2009 by
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I wanted to see this game, going down to Nationals stadium last night only to have the whole thing rained out. I didn't try again today but at least got home in time to watch most of the game. Johnson pitched great for 6 innings, making a great defensive play nad watching Brian...
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