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Dave Cameron on the value of depth, or how to minimize risk while adding wins. Of course, there is the difficulty of knowing whether a player whose production falls in the right-tail of the distribution is relying on luck versus skill, which makes the manager's decision difficult...
Cubs Trade Aaron Heilman To Diamondbacks; Also Re-Sign John Grabow
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by Frank Franklin II - AP
The Cubs handed a $7 million dollar contract to John Grabow, who has been worth $5.3 million dollars over his career. They later traded Aaron Heilman to Arizona for a pair of prospects...
Zack Greinke and Tim Lincecum by LOWESS
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Tim Lincecum, doing his best LOWESS impression. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Today it was announced that Tim Lincecum would join Zack...
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Jeremy Greenhouse's Visual Scouting Report 1.0: Bay vs. Holliday. The heat is on!
A Wrigley mystery contained in a photo. If you'd like to take a crack at it without seeing the answer, the question is: "of which game was this picture taken?"
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Jim Tracy and Mike Scioscia Win Manager of the Year Awards
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by Julie Jacobson - AP
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Yawn.
Reward Retrospective - 1985 AL MVP - Right Team, Wrong Player
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Beyond the Box Score will be starting a new series, Reward Retrospective, that will look at past awards (MVP, Cy Young, ROY, etc.) that peak our interest and examine them with some of todays metrics. I hope you enjoy these looks back at various players and seasons...
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J.C. Bradbury takes on the world! He argues players peak at age 29-30, then Phil Birnbaum replies, then Bradbury fires back armed with graphs, then Colin Wyers gets into it. Bottom line is that this stuff is hard and any attempt to analyze the data will include...
Exactly How Awesome is Zack Greinke?
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What should Zack Greinke do in the off season?
Mow Lawns.
Play this World of Warcraft game.
Man, I love Zack Greinke.
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The Curves of Zack Greinke
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by Charlie Riedel - AP
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Zack Greinke earned the 2009 Cy Young Award earlier today. It was well deserved, and not much of a surprise. I've covered Greinke via PITCHf/x on...
Andrew Bailey PITCHf/x
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Andrew Bailey PITCHf/x
A PITCHf/x scouting report on the 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
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The art and science of well-timed acquisitions and trades. Why everyone looks like a genius in hindsight and true value is tough to find.
Tommy Rancel interviewed Andrew Friedman. He discusses the fact that he does not have a contract with the Rays, picking late in the...
Rookie of the Year and the Mythical Sophomore Slump
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by Gene J. Puskar - AP
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Time to bust out your Kirt Manwaring Rated Rookie cards, kids. It's that time of year!
Rookie of the Year is a bit of a strange award. It'...
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2010 CHONE hitter projections are live. Gentlemen, start your spreadsheets. Here are the free agents.
Why game theory promises more than it can deliver. How often do you think, "we could solve this problem if only we had the right data"? It may not be true.
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Ryan Doumit and the Prospect of "Selling Low"
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The hot stove is in full effect, and teams are taking a hard look at their rosters to prepare for the winter meetings. One team that has already been...
2010 UZR Projections
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I created UZR projections for the 2010 season and the values are available on a Google Documents Spreadsheet. I got 4 years worth of UZR numbers from Fangraphs. Then I did a 5-4-3-2 yearly weighting regressed to 125 games with a -0.7UZR aging factor (article where...
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The high inside fastball is most effective when thrown after another fastball, and other interesting findings from Nick. I wonder about his conclusion that pitchers are worried about throwing a ball on 3-0. Isn't that the best strategy sometimes?
The Super-Two tiebreaker is...
Free Agent Friday: Second Base 2010
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These charts tells me the Royals are now in the Luis Rodriguez sweepstakes.
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Second basemen
AGE
TYPE
CLUB OPTION
WAR
UZR/150
wOBA
ISO
PA
Felipe Lopez
30
B
4.6
7.6
0.356
0.118...
JC Bradbury on "Hot Stove Myths"
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JC Bradbury on "Hot Stove Myths"
I'm not sure what the make of this. I'm pretty sure it's wrong, though.
More discussion at Tango's blog.
Was Joe Mauer Streakier than Jimmy Rollins?
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by Ted S. Warren - AP
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That some players are streakier than others is, for most baseball observers, nothing short of self-evident. Some guys get hot and stay hot only to descend...
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Alex Anthopolous will lead the scouts' counter-revolution! Well, that or he will allocate his firm's capital to the resources expected to yield the highest internal rate of return. You know, one or the other.
Converting OPS into wOBA, or killing a fly with a grenade-launcher...
Gold Glove vs. UZR (NL Edition)
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by Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP
Philadelphia Phillies' Chase Utley (26) is congratulated by bench coach Pete Mackanin after scoring during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Mackanin...
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How transactions costs increase player movement under free agency. The Coase theorem does not apply when transaction costs are high; anyone know how much Scott Boras took home last year?
The doctrine of comparative advantage: the Rays and A's should trade for mutual benefit...
Gold Gloves vs. UZR: The Laziest Article I've Ever Written (AL Edition)
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by Ted S. Warren - AP
During a pitching change in the sixth inning against the San Diego Padres in a baseball game Tuesday, June 23, 2009, center fielder Franklin Gutierrez (center) ponders aloud "You think...
wOBA to WAR Conversion Spreadsheet
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Last Friday, Justin ran an article on free agent first basemen with their 2009 wOBAs. Justin and I determined that it needed a baseline wOBA for reference. The overall league averages can't be used because each position has its own run adjustment...
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A history of MLB partiy, part 1 (part 2)
Type B free agents had a higher average 2008/2009 WAR than their Type A counterparts
The Great General Manager Debate: NL Central edition
Did Moneyball increase the correlation between OBP and salary? Maybe.
How many championships...
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