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Graphaholic: Mets Manager Winning Percentages
The Mets have had nineteen managers in their 48 year history, from Casey Stengel, who helmed the incipient mess of the early sixties, to Jerry Manuel, who gangsta-fies the current bloated injury-fest....
Mets Starting Pitcher tRA+
An explanation of tRA+ can be found at StatCorner. Short version for lazies: It considers what the pitcher actually did -- not just what earned runs he happened to allow -- adjusted for defense and ...
ISO Scatter Plots
A post today on a couple of things I've been wondering about. Conventional baseball wisdom tells us that the more power a hitter has, the less strikes he'll see. The idea goes that pitchers will be af...
Jose Reyes Gets Picked Off
(click to embiggen) The x-axis represents minimum stolen base seasons for individual players. For example, '0' includes every player season ever, '10' includes every player season with at least t...
Glavine Returns (Again) to Atlanta
The Atlanta Braves have come to terms with 43-year-old LHP Tom Glavine this morning on a 1-year, $1M contract with an additional $3.5M in incentives. Glavine, a staple of the dominant 90's Braves rota...
Reader Contest: Make Your Own Graph
Update: Now with real prizes! See below. Over the past month, BtB's fallen in love with graphs. Chris designed a great one for historical player value, jhmoore started the binomial craze,...
Undervalued Free Agents: Craig Counsell
With the news coming out that Troy Glaus could miss up to the first 5-weeks of the upcoming season while he recovers from shoulder surgery, the Cardinals are looking for third base solutions. This mor...
Barry Zito Was Not a Good Free-Agent Signing
In honor of the AL Cy Young Award winner – Cliff Lee – I thought I’d create a little graph: Oh, that tantalizing question mark. You can see that the trend – a trend ...
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