Bringing The D in 2008

Posted on January 27, 2026 by davidbloom

Pinto with his PMR 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, [...]

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Kent: The David Cone throw in

Posted on January 24, 2026 by davidbloom

It was with the Toronto Blue Jays that Jeff Kent first came on the radar. He had some pop even back then with his bat when the Blue Jays were giving him some play at 3B. The Mets did the unthinkable and traded the player who meant so much to the team in David Cone. [...]

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Prediction Season 2009 Begins

Posted on January 23, 2026 by davidbloom

The Baseball Insights site has unveiled their 2009 player projection functionality. For example , I did I lookup on John Bowker, and Daniel Murphy.
Over at Fantasy Phenoms, they have their prospect outlook by position .
The MLB Jerk has a look at NL East prospects.
The Grand Finale link of the day is Keith Law’s Top 100.

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300 Hitters: Good Contact + Walk Ability

Posted on January 22, 2026 by davidbloom

The Ron Shandler mantra says if you have make good contact at about 80% contact rate, and can work the count resulting in close to a 10% walk rate, that is where you find your 300 hitters. Lets test the hypothesis on 2008 NL data. Here is the Contact Rate, BB%, and the resulting average. [...]

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Maybee It will happen

Posted on January 8, 2026 by davidbloom

again… Go Gators!!!
Update: and it did….

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MLB Quad 2008: TOB,TB,SLG,OBP Winners

Posted on January 7, 2026 by davidbloom

The Quad takes into account both counting stats in Times on Base, and Total Bases and the rate stats in On Base Percentage, Slugging average.
Below is the top 10 overall finishes in MLB over the course of the 2008 season (either American League or national League results). If a player makes it to the top [...]

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Quad 2008 On Base Percentage Rankings

Posted on January 5, 2026 by davidbloom

So far, we have rolled out the Times on Base , the Total Bases , and the SLUGGING part of the Quad for 2008. This will be the final piece of data in the Quad, the On Base Percentage. All these statistics were obtained using my new Sabermetrics tool . Again, the definition of [...]

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The Sluggers: Part 3 of Quad 2008

Posted on January 4, 2026 by davidbloom

So far, we have rolled out the Times on Base , and the Total Bases part of the quad. Today will be the Slugging statistics from 2008 using my new Sabermetrics tool . The Quad:
the year-end leaders in the four categories (On Base Percentage, Slugging average, Times on Base, and Total Bases
For the next few [...]

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First Tape Measure Hit 2009

Posted on January 1, 2026 by davidbloom

Every now and then I find a gem of a blog that has great content, and somehow I missed out on it until now. This offseason, I think i have found another great blog in WaiverWire . Just like Greener On The Other side last year that went on to great things with Fantasy Phenoms, [...]

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