Chase Utley and Accountability
by Bill Baer on Friday, October 29th, 2010Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 31 Comments »
Chase Utley has been the subject of many discussions lately, including two posts here and a Marcus Hayes tangent in an online live chat for the Philadelphia Daily News. Among Hayes' many criticisms of Utley, he called the second ...
Shane Victorino’s Platoon Splits
by Bill Baer on Friday, October 29th, 2010Posted in Graphs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 14 Comments »
In his five years as an everyday player for the Phillies, Shane Victorino has been an enigma. Despite some questionable plate discipline, he's been a productive hitter. Despite some circuitous routes to fly balls, he's played above-average defense in ...
Phillies 2011 Job Openings
by Bill Baer on Friday, October 29th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 21 Comments »
With nearly $144 million already on the books for the 2011 season, the Phillies' off-season figures to be boring. 17 players are under contract with two others headed to their first years in arbitration (Kyle Kendrick and Ben ...
One More Note on Chase Utley
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 33 Comments »
So, this happened earlier today. It's a live chat with Marcus Hayes of the Philadelphia Daily News. As I'm not a regular consumer of PDN material, I had forgotten that Hayes existed, but he put himself back on the map ...
Chase Utley: Public Enemy Number One
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 58 Comments »
For a long time, Chase Utley has been beloved in Philadelphia. Although he's not much of a talker, he's had quite a few iconic moments as a Phillie for what he's said and done, baseball talent aside. Remember the ...
The Resurgence of Pat Burrell
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, Graphs, MLB, Sabermetrics | 5 Comments »
At the Baseball Analytics blog, I looked at the resurgence of former Phillie Pat Burrell. The results may surprise you. It appears to be that, in 2009, he was simply unable to hit soft pitches. As a Phillie, he had ...
David Beats Goliath, Phillies Out of Playoffs
by Bill Baer on Sunday, October 24th, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 58 Comments »
The called strike three to Ryan Howard that clinched the National League Championship Series for the Giants was, among other things, emblematic of the Phillies' offensive ineptitude throughout the NLCS. Despite banging out eight hits and drawing five walks, ...
No Easy Answer to Jayson Werth
by Bill Baer on Friday, October 22nd, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 22 Comments »
At the Baseball Analytics blog, I look at just how much of a challenge Jayson Werth is to opposing pitchers and managers. He hits hard stuff (93rd percentile in wOBA, 2010) and soft stuff (95th percentile) alike. He even hits ...
NLCS Headed Back to Philly
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 21st, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 20 Comments »
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun, the Phillies staved off elimination for at least one more day with a 4-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Game Five of the NLCS. The Phillies capitalized on some poor ...
Rolls of the Die
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 21st, 2010Posted in 2010 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 15 Comments »
I've been reading a lot of reactions and analysis of Game Four of the NLCS. The Phillies, of course, lost on a sacrifice fly by Juan Uribe in the bottom of the ninth -- a crushing blow to the ...
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