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2010 Bill James Projections: White Sox Pitchers

<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> W-L G GS SVIP H HR BB K ERA WHIP Mark Buehrle 12-12 33 33 0 216 232 25 48 122 3.96 1.30 D.J. Carrasco 4-6 44 0 0 90 103 8 36 59 4.90 1.54 John Danks 11-12 33 3...

2010 Bill James Projections: White Sox Hitters

The good people at ACTA Sports provided me a sneak preview at the 2010 Bill James projections, which will be made available the public the the 2010 Bill James Handbook (available next week). James ten...

Revisiting Our Gavin Floyd Projection

The early release of Dan Szymborski's ZiPS projections reminded me of the time I put in building a better projection for Gavin Floyd. At the time, there was some general discontent over the ...

Ken Rosenthal: Troll Of The Day

If you read about baseball on the Internet, you must have come across Ken Rosenthal's piece about Joe Mauer, the MVP Award and sabermetrics at FoxSports.com today. It features some worthwhile points ...

Rosenthal is right -- there is more than one way to judge players

Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports wrote a great piece the other day taking the Sabermetric community to task. At the risk of angering the Sabermetricians among you, I am going to agree with Rosenthal (and y...

Appreciating Javier Vazquez

Yesterday's Braves-Cardinals game looked like a promising pitcher's duel: Javier Vazquez vs. Chris Carpenter, 2 of the best pitchers in baseball this season.  Carpenter failed to hold up his end ...

Jurassic Mets

Note: The following was inspired by the great lunch scene in the film version of "Jurassic Park".  I couldn't find a video of it online, but here is a pretty good re-creation by some guy on YouTu...

Final Thoughts On Close-Mindedness

In a response to a response to a response to a post I made last week (isn't the Internet great?), Mike Silva of New York Baseball Digest wrote (excerpted): The Battle of Dueling Baseball Philosophi...

You Always Fear What You Don't Understand

Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest is a blog dedicated to coverage of the Mets and Yankees. The tone of the site is similar to sports talk radio. There is an open and prominent aversion to statis...

Tuesday Nats Stats: What's up with Dunn's batting splits?

Does Adam Dunn really hit worse when he plays RF than when he plays LF?  Here's a quick-and-dirty look based on a thread comment that was getting waaaay too long. Okay, here are Dunn's overall b...


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