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Spring Training Game 4 Open Thread & Sunday Links

The Giants wish they had Hochevar. Royals:   Royals Kingdom: Do's and Don'ts for Royals Contention in 2010 KoK Prospect #12: Jeff Bianchi | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog R...

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Place to ask (potentially) stupid questions.

I know I'm not alone when I say that there are many regular contributors to this site that have far more knowledge about the World's Greatest Sport than I do.  Therefore, I thought it would be...

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So What is the Deal with Wins Above Replacement? Or, WAR, What is it Good For? A (Relatively) Brief Primer Using the Current Royals' Leaderboard

  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...

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So What Are K/9, BB/9, and K/BB Anyway?

Continuing with the series on explaining useful statistics as requested in the excellent For All the Dummies post, this entry looks at three key pitching statistics that both scouting and...

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So what are OBP/SLG/OPS/wOBA anyway?

A brief explanation of OBP, SLG, OPS and wOBA.

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Attention Aspiring Nerdlings: Some introductory sabermetric links

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...

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So What is FIP Anyway?

A summary of FIP - Fielding Independent Pitching - a new baseball stat.

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