Playoffs: Oswalt or Worley?
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 28 Comments »
Over the past two weeks or so, the Phillies' #4 starter in the playoffs has been the topic of discussion. Roy Oswalt has the tenure and the track record, but Vance Worley has been incredibly successful in his 19 starts ...
Phillies: Good at Baseball
by Bill Baer on Monday, September 12th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 13 Comments »
You've no doubt been inundated with articles telling you just how good the 2011 Phillies starting rotation is. The combination of the severe decline in offense across baseball (lowest since 1992) and the four (five?) aces led to some impressive ...
Ryan Howard’s RBI Opportunities
by Bill Baer on Monday, September 12th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 38 Comments »
At Beyond the Box Score, Jacob Peterson (@JunkStats) did some outstanding work digging into Ryan Howard's RBI opportunities. Howard, of course, has been the subject of debate for the last year and a half since he signed his five-year, $125 ...
.gifs at TheScore.com
by Bill Baer on Saturday, September 10th, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB | 2 Comments »
I've been recruited by theScore.com to do some .gif work on the weekends with the Getting Blanked blog. I've already got quite a few posts up, some of them Phillies-related, so here's a run-down of what's been posted so far: Reds ...
ESPN on BABIP
by Bill Baer on Saturday, September 10th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 13 Comments »
ESPN's Boog Sciambi led the discussion on BABIP on "Stat Your Case" with Rick Sutcliffe, Aaron Boone, and Karl Ravech. Pretty interesting discussion, and it's great to see Sabermetrics getting more and more into the mainstream. Embedding is disabled on the ...
MLB and Doublethink
by Bill Baer on Friday, September 9th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 50 Comments »
In his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell coined the term "doublethink", which is "the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct". Recently, the Phillies joined the numerous other teams in baseball that have participated in the ItGetsBetter.org anti-bullying ...
Best Rotation of All Time?
by Bill Baer on Friday, September 9th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 24 Comments »
Back in February, in an article I wrote for ESPN, I pondered the historical possibilities for the 2011 Phillies starting rotation. Last year, the four aces each finished the season with at least four Wins Above Replacement per Baseball Reference. ...
DVD Contest: May 17, 1979 PHI @ CHC
by Bill Baer on Thursday, September 8th, 2011Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 69 Comments »
A representative of A+E Home Entertainment contacted me and was kind enough to offer a few DVDs to give away to Crashburn Alley readers. The DVD, which you can purchase here, chronicles a wacky 23-22 game between the Phillies and ...
Please Stop Calling Cliff Lee Streaky
by Ryan Sommers on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Posted in Graphs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 34 Comments »
A week after I wrote that the NL Cy Young might be a two man race, Cliff Lee appears to have pitched himself back into contention. The night after that post went live, Lee capped off a brilliant August with ...
WAR Back in the News
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Posted in MLB, Sabermetrics | 27 Comments »
At fellow Sweet Spot blog It Is About the Money, Stupid, Hippeaux has a post up critiquing the Sabermetric statistic Wins Above Replacement and its widespread use (or, in his estimation, misuse). Naturally, this spurred a lot of debate on ...
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