GM Amaro Considered Blowing Up 2010 Squad
by Bill Baer on Thursday, September 30th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 35 Comments »
Not even a full day removed from clinching the NL East for the fourth straight season, Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. joined Sirius XM hosts Jim Memolo and Rob Dibble on the MLB Network Radio channel on Tuesday. I received ...
Should Doc Get MVP Consideration?
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 34 Comments »
The National League Cy Young race has come down to two candidates: Roy Halladay and Adam Wainwright. Most people -- in both the mainstream and Sabermetric parties -- tend to side with Halladay, and for good reason. Heading ...
For Fourth Consecutive Year, Phillies Are Playoff-Bound
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 5 Comments »
Phillies fans -- and the players themselves -- are quickly becoming spoiled. The Fightins clinched the division for the fourth consecutive year, this time on the road in front of a mostly-Phillies-friendly, rain-drenched crowd in the nation's capitol. The celebrations have ...
Graph of the Intermittent Time Period
by Bill Baer on Monday, September 27th, 2010Posted in Graphs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 16 Comments »
I look forward to Mondays, when ESPN updates their power rankings. I and other members of Rob Neyer's Sweetspot blog network submit a blurb about our teams, which then get posted on the power rankings page. It's a project I ...
Time to Worry About Polly?
by Bill Baer on Monday, September 27th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 15 Comments »
Going into yesterday's series finale against the New York Mets, Placido Polanco had a minuscule .553 OPS in his last 168 plate appearances dating back to August 18. As Todd Zolecki reported, he has a problematic bone spur in ...
Jack McCaffery Wears Bad Idea Jeans
by Bill Baer on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 42 Comments »
Long-time Daily Times columnist Jack McCaffery had a doozy published today. He has a suggestion for the Phillies and it's wearing Bad Idea Jeans. Let's jump into it FJM-style, in honor of their reunion on Deadspin yesterday. The title of his ...
Discussion: The Genius of Charlie Manuel
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 101 Comments »
Last December, Chris Jaffe contacted me wondering if I could help him promote his book Evaluating Baseball's Managers. It was the first time I had seen anybody truly try to quantify the effect a manager has on a ballclub. I ...
Braves-Phillies Series Preview with Peter Hjort
by Bill Baer on Monday, September 20th, 2010Posted in Interviews, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics, Series Preview | 8 Comments »
It looked like the Phillies were going to welcome in the Atlanta Braves with just a two-game lead in the NL East, but thanks to some late-game heroics by Jayson Werth, that is not the case. Werth hit a ...
What I Learned from Today’s Game
by Bill Baer on Sunday, September 19th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 100 Comments »
Today was a good sports day in Philadelphia with the Eagles winning by a slim margin over the Detroit Lions and the Phillies needing all nine innings to overcome the Washington Nationals thanks to a Jayson Werth walk-off home ...
Chipper Jones Whines About Injuries
by Bill Baer on Saturday, September 18th, 2010Posted in MLB, NL East Whining, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 33 Comments »
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports interviewed Chipper Jones, asking him his thoughts on several topics, including the Braves' fall from first place in the NL East. Jones took the opportunity to blame it on injuries, failing to realize that ...
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