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Mets Starting Lineup WAR Per 700 Plate Appearances
(click to embiggen) -- partially inspired by this post Using the BaseballProjection WAR database, I calculated the career WAR per 700 plate appearances (roughly one full season) of the projected Met...
Rockies WAR Lords of the Diamond Update
Since my column on Saturday, not much has changed with the Rockies' 25 man roster plans beyond the addition of some pitching depth in the form of minor league deals for Tim Redding, Justin Speier...
A New Era: Giants Extend Freddy Sanchez
I know there's a World Series going on and everything, but isn't anyone going to talk about the bigger news? That's right: Freddy Sanchez re-signed with the Giants for 2 years, $12 million, replacing ...
How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGrap...
Zack Greinke's 2009 in the Stream of Time: The 11 Greatest Seasons by Starting Pitchers Since Pedro's 1999
Well, it's pretty much over. Pretty much. Unless Justin Verlander throws 18 shutout innings of relief in today's game, Zack Greinke has got the "real" (i.e., "internet") Cy Young locked up (and, as I'...
WAR Lords of the Diamond: Greatest. Rockies. Ever.
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP I SP Now that I've discussed the greatest Rockies ever by position according to WAR, I'll sum...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Starting Pitchers)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by ...
Ken Rosenthal, "Sabermetric Group Think," and the 2009 American League MVP Debate
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports doesn't spend all his time scrounging for rumors, sharing brilliant insights such as 'The Royals Must Rebuild To Win a World Series,' and dressing down bloggers for alleged...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Relief Pitchers)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by posi...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Right Field)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by position, I'm ...
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