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Trades, Free Agents, and Rule 5 Selections in Franchise History
Alex Anthopolous recently re-stated that, while he is exploring all possible free agents, he would "exhaust [all possible trades] first before delving into free agency." It appears that Anthopolous' mantra is to focus on trades rather than free agency to improve the Blue Jays. As a prelude to the...
Sharks Gameday: Flatline
Hey, we're at the halfway point of the season! That's exciting, right? The Sharks have been hard to figure out this year. They've had struggles on offense, defense, and in goal. So, with half of the season behind us, are the Sharks headed in the right direction? Are they improving or getting...
Redskins Fans Mentality from 2009-2010 in Pie Charts Form
I hope to add this style of posts into the weekly rotation of game recaps...
Sharks Gameday: Wherefore Art Thou, Marleau?
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Next Game Colorado Avalanche @ San Jose Sharks Thursday, Apr 22, 2010, 7:30 PM PDT HP Pavilion Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> Warning: The following post contains graphic depictions of hockey statistics and gratuitous Excel graphs. This post is...
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. Davey Johnson has managed the most games (1012); Mike Cubbage has managed the fewest (7). Two have...
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 park and expressed relative to the league (100 = average). This can't really surprise anyone given...
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 afraid to challenge a highly skilled power hitter and thus, will be more likely to throw balls or...
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 ten stolen bases, etc. The y-axis represents the frequency of pickoff, which is just...
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 rotation, returned to Atlanta in 2008 after pitching for 5 seasons in New York with the Mets. His...
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