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Separated at Birth? Milton Bradley and Nick Johnson
Musing about baseball when I should have been doing something else (you won't be surprised to find out that this a fairly frequent activity for me), it struck me that Nick Johnson and Milton Bradley h...
Saturday Lunchtime Royals Links
I was rays before rays was cool. Jenn Sterger on Twitpic Fire Dayton Moore: Our wOBA experiment results for the RoyalsFire Dayton Moore: Our wOBA experiment results for the Royals Dayton Moore...
Statistical Metrics and what we do with them
Over the past several months, Counting Rocks has introduced numerous new tools to put into our statistical toolbox to attempt to quantify the performances of the players on the field. A lot of questio...
Tidbits Jim Tracy should watch for as we roll down the stretch
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Troy Tulowitzki’s 1st halves: 2007 and 2009
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Stats On The Fourth Of July
I saw this post by Regis at Metsblog and was inspired to write about a popular topic - the use of statistics by fans and bloggers. Here are some snippets from the post: The Mets have the fewest...
Miguel Olivo's Fascinating, Remarkably Dumb, Almost Useful, 2009 Season
Thanks to a .333/.364/.786 run in his last 44 plate appearances, Miguel is now hitting .257/.287/.493 on the season. His slugging percentage is easily the highest of his career, as is his wOBA, which ...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Position Players)
In this new series of Purple Row Academy, I will step on the toes of both RMN and TOGB somewhat--in examining the concept of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)--also called Win Value--in deta...
Return of the Son of the Revisitation of the Myth of the RBI Guy: Careers Overrated by RBI Totals
Okay, okay, you probably figured we were done with this. And we are. Really. After this. To recap: First, taking a clue from a piece by Jonah Keri, I looked at the most overrated individual seasons si...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy (Revisited), Part Two: Situational Hitting and RE24
In last week's post on the Myth of the RBI Guy, I used a crude method inspired by Jonah Keri's piece in Baseball Between the Numbers to generate groups of individual seasons by players since 1...
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