A lot of great stuff this week online from a baseball stat and sabermetric perspective. I don’t want to take too much time building it up, so I will just get right into the details.
The Great Clutch Project
I mentioned this a few weeks ago, concerning Tom Tango asking fans to join him in a battle [...]
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One of the local FM radio stations here in Houston is celebrating “Baseball Week” all this week, with baseball-themed interviews (including Jose Canseco and the guy who is auctioning off Barry Bonds’ 762nd home run ball and who sounds like he is perpetually stoned), Astros updates, and other various items. And, God bless ‘em, they [...]
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Using a relatively new tool on BaseballReference.com known as the Batting Order Outcomes, I thought it might be fun to go back and look at last season and construct the ultimate lineup, spots 1-8, using each team’s production in each of those spots as our data.
The way this page works is you can put in [...]
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We finally finish things off this series with the surprise division of 2007, the one that produced two playoff teams and the eventual NL champion. A couple of major moves and a lot of player signings and extensions highlight this division’s offseason.
Arizona Diamondbacks
12-14-2007: Acquired RHP Dan Haren and RHP Connor Robertson from the Oakland Athletics [...]
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I have written a short piece for the Spring Training 2008 website hosted by Blogs by Fans about the Astros. You can check it out here, and also click on any of the team logos for a preview of rosters, rotations, and key spring training battles. Spend a few minutes there if you have a [...]
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