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An article covering home run blasts at HBT where they apply metrics to where the shot lands.
The Upton and Upton brotherly love.
MVN’s Roster Magazine with Hanley vs Jose Reyes in the fantasy preview.
The Ron Shandler Interview
As the Clemens News Turns , check out Steroid Nation
Roto Junkie Fantasy Yearly Fix for $15
More on the Pine Tar [...]
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It was in 2005 I was approached by Sports Blogs to start a blog on Rays called Drays Bay. This month marks the third anniversary of the blog. Even though I blog there on rare occasions, I want to recognize that the site has really evolved to more than just a blog, but a [...]
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I have read a few good articles articles lately about contact rate which is calculated as (AB-K)/AB) . As you improve the more times the ball hits the bat, the better the chances are your batting average improves:
take the example of a hitter whose real skill is to hit home runs 8% of the [...]
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Well, lets take a trip down Spring Training memory lane.
NL Leaders
AL Leaders
A couple years ago the catcher of the Marlins Ramon Castro was hitting home runs in Spring Training at a torrid pace. It turned out to be a fluke. You can’t really judge performance when a lot of the players are not [...]
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Well, I have to say I agree with Shyster about Ken Rosenthal. The baseball insider at Fox think Bonds is bad for the game, but is fine with Giambi, Roberts, et al. I wonder what his thoughts are about Brett Boone and if drinking heavily while as a player is ok? These Nats [...]
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When I wrote the piece On Bonds I certainly was grasping at straws to find a place for Bonds to play in 2008. I put Rays at #7 strictly on fact they were trying to build a clubhouse as witnessed by Delmon et al removal. The Bay area seems more receptive to the move [...]
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Early on in the baseball career of Barry Bonds, he was known as one of the Pittsburgh Pirates Killer B’s. With the numbers Bonds was putting up on scoreboards throughout Major League Baseball for the Pirates in the early 90’s , he won two National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and was proving [...]
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A few weeks ago we were wondering about Mattingly’s wife and what happened ? The Daily News has a story and pictures about Mattingly’s life, and Donnie’s current unfortunate situation. My first memory of Mattingly was the summer of 1983, when both Don and Steve Balboni were getting a shot at the first [...]
Filed under: American League, Angels, Around the Web, Cubs, Former Player, Marlins, Matt Holiday, NL East, National League, Phillies, Projections, Rays, Sabermetrics, Yankees, fantasy | 2 Comments »
With the 2008 baseball pre-season here, you are probably trying to figure out which player will be the offensive force to build your fantasy team around. The one baseball statistic that I have been following for a while now is the Quad which Rich Lederer pointed out several years ago when he compared some of [...]
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The Chone and Marcel projections for 2008 can now be found at Baseball Graphs in sortable format. The good folks at Many Eyes are “passionate about the potential of data visualization”. I took the Chone data for 2008 and applied their data visualization interfaces.
For the pitching projections, I applied [...]
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