So here they are. The three second basemen of my generation. Don’t come to me with your Bret Boones and your Carlos Baergas and your Robby Thompsons. These were the three guys. And before Chase Utley, Rickie Weeks and Howie Kendrick take over as the next generation, I thought it beneficial to see if each [...]
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Two posts ago, when I wrote a piece entitled “When looking for a good hitter,” a debate was sparked amongst some peers outside of cyberspace and in the real world as to the validity of Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) and how it is used to compare players.
When looking at VORP and its meaning, you [...]
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My all-time favorite player from yesteryear is Ted Williams. Teddy Ballgame. The Splendid Splinter. And while I can sit here and spout out stats all day long: .406, 521, 1839, no one helped me to understand Ted Williams the man and who he was than an incredible author named David Halberstam.
Pulitzer prize-winning author David Halberstam [...]
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In the SABR community, a lot has been made in the recent past about the shortcomings of stats like batting average and RBIs; how they don’t tell the full offensive story and that other, more complex rate stats like OPS or VORP or EqA do a better job of encompassing a player’s offensive worth.
As you [...]
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You can go online here anytime thru June 28 and vote for who YOU (the expert) think should start the All-Star game at AT&T Park in San Francisco on July 10. But, this link being up after two weeks of the season is completed bugged me a little. Some teams have missed four or five [...]
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