You can find my "objective" analysis of the Betancourt trade at Driveline Mechanics (it also covers the Francoeur-Church trade, which is actually probably even awesomer). At Driveline, I pretend to...
While the season so far has taken a troubling turn, the Royals' record has improved each season since Dayton Moore took over the helm, and, without looking, I believe they are still ahead of 2008's...
Given the Royals' recent struggles, I thought it might be nice to revisit some better times. So, in the continuing series of me learning about sabermetrics in order to prove that anyone can, here...
This is an adaption of the current (as of 5/20/2009) Royals' WAR leaderboard for position players at FanGraphs: Name Batting Fielding Replacement Positional RAR WAR Coco Crisp 2...
I might as well revisit this now, especially in light of Zack Greinke's amazing start. A little historical perspective never hurt anyone. In my early days as a seat-filler at Driveline Mechanics,...
With the end of the Royals' best first month of the season in recent memory, fans are understandably wondering how sustainable it is. Obviously, the pitching has been good (some young guy whose...
This conversation was taking place between an administrative assistant and his boss:
As one of the millions of people who undoubtedly read yesterday's Driveline Mechanics column on optimizing the 2009 Royals' lineup, I have little doubt you saw all those numbers for the Royals...
In an earlier post, FretFriendly expressed some concern about the somewhat technical nature of some discussions that use sabermetric concepts, and other commenters on this post agreed. I'm not...
Yup, it's the moment you've all been waiting for -- me to give away the dirty little secret that was going to net me a RR t-shirt next fall. Or not.
