This is the third in the series of the baseball bloggers who have had a great impact on the vibrant baseball blogosphere that you see on the web today. In the first installment , Aaron Gleeman was profiled, the second was Rich Lederer. Now, on to the story of baseball blogger David Pinto.
One site that is one everybody’s blogroll (including Peter Gammons) is Baseball Musings by David Pinto. His claim to fame is that during the 2001 season he was part of ESPN‘s Baseball Tonight Online. He was a moderator on the chat room that featured either Rob Dibble or Tom Candiotti answering question. His original Baseball Musings blog was one that resembled his blog today, where he covers baseball news 24/7. He has written articles for Baseball Prospectus, and now also is listed as a baseball expert at SportingNews.com .
One thing that is significant about his Baseball Musings site is David’s jump into baseball statistics. He created PMR
Pinto uses play-by-play data to determine the probability of a ball in play being converted to an out based on six parameters: Direction of hit (a vector), The type of hit (Fly, ground, line drive, bunt), How hard the ball was hit (slow, medium, hard), The park, The handedness of the pitcher, The handedness of the batter.
Also, included on his site is the day to day Batter / Pitcher database where you can get game by game performance history over a distinct period for majpr league player.
The first stop on checking what the buzz of the blogosphere, Pinto also is one of the nice guys in the baseball space. He answers emails and is one to contact to get the word out on something new in the blogosphere.
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