All Entries in the "Sabermetrics" Category
“SABR DAY” TO BE CELEBRATED ACROSS THE USA ON JANUARY 30
On Saturday, January 30, 2010, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) will come together to celebrate SABR and all things baseball. Chapters and members across the US and Canada will gather for everything from Hot Stove discussions to research presentations to guest talks by former players to a Dice Base Ball Tournament [...]
Wins and Loses: A Decline in Value?
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Congratulations to Tim Lincecum for winning the 2009 NL Cy Young award, just a couple short days after Zack Greinke’s victory for the AL counterpart. But an even bigger congratulations is in order. A congratulations to the BBWAA voters.
Just what am I getting at, you ask? As we’re all aware of, there [...]
Is Jorge Posada Hall of Fame Bound?
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Jorge Posada has played for the Yankees since 1995, and started since 1998. He is a popular player, and as he approaches the end of his career, some noise is being made about electing him to the Hall of Fame. But does he deserve it? Is Jorge Posada a future Hall of Famer?
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The Biggest WAR Bargains of 2009: Part 2
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Last week I covered the top 5 position player bargains of the year – and despite the fact that they were great talents, had for cheap, they were still, mainly, pretty big names. This week, for part two, I’ll try to dive into 5 of the lesser known bargains. Once [...]
The Biggest WAR Bargains of 2009: Part 1
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Currently in the MLB, the average player value, per win, is about $4.5 million. So, if a player’s WAR (Wins Above Replacement) in a season was 2.0, that player would have been worth about $9 million. Naturally, there are going to be a lot of players getting paid much more [...]
Why Tim Lincecum will be your 2009 NL Cy Young winner
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After a year in which Cardinals starting pitchers Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright dominated the headlines, pitched their team to a division title and were expected to fight for some off-season hardware, it was the Giants’ Tim Lincecum who picked up the first post-season win amongst the trio.
When [...]
The Most Valuable Player in Baseball Might Surprise You
When you think of the best, most valuable players in baseball, what names come to mind? Albert Pujols, probably. Or maybe Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, Evan Longoria? There are plenty of big names out there that the average fans look at as the best players. This year, though, it wasn’t any of those guys. In [...]
Sabermetrics and the Cy Young Award
I think we’re all aware of which stats voters use to determine Cy Young winners. For the most part, it’s stats like ERA, wins, K’s, losses, and WHIP. There are a number of reasons why using only those stats doesn’t come close to telling the whole story – each of them is seriously flawed.
Let’s start [...]
Deserving Gold Glove Winners – A.L.
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Catcher: Catcher’s defense is by far the toughest to quantify, as there really isn’t a metric for it, and you pretty much have to go exclusively by stats like runners thrown out, passed balls, and dare I say, fielding percentage.
Deserving Winner: Jason Varitek
Reasoning: Highest RF/9 (range factor per game) among AL catchers by [...]
The Gold Glove Award Selection Process Needs Impoving
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It’s fairly unclear as to what voters take into consideration when choosing winners of the gold glove award – the one stat that has consistently been used to determine a players fielding ability, has been fielding percentage. Fielding percentage basically takes the player’s total number of chances converted into outs (assists/put outs), then [...]
Sabermetrics 101: VORP
For those of you who are sabermetrically challenged, here is an introductory look into this basic stat.
Here is the textbook description of VORP thanks to Baseball Prospectus.com.
VORP stands for Value Over Replacement Player, which is broken down as the number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level player at the same position would contribute if [...]
Big Papi Comes Up Big in June
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So now that David Ortiz has found his stroke again, all the murmurs will start.
This will certainly mirror the talk that surrounded Jason Giambi a couple of years ago.
You all remember, don’t you? Giambi admitted to doing performance-enhancing drugs before the 2004 season, and followed that up with an 80 game, 12 home [...]
A Case for Sabermetrics
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In the past few months I have been gathering monthly author for Baseball Reflections so that I could write on a more relaxed basis and produce more detailed work. This article is the first postto that effect. A version of it was previously posted over at RBI Magazine back on March 12th.
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