Programming Note: NL East Previews
by Bill Baer on Saturday, March 13th, 2010Posted in Interviews, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
It's March and that means team previews are popping up around the baseball blogosphere. If you haven't been following along, there's a new one every day in March at Baseball Daily Digest and they've been great so far. Personally, I ...
Placido Polanco Doesn’t Need Your Pity
by Bill Baer on Friday, March 12th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 2 Comments »
When speaking about a woman, saying "she has a great personality" is interpreted as "she's ugly". It's a weak compliment, and it's weak because there isn't much else to compliment. The baseball equivalent is to laud a player by saying ...
Formidable Opponent: The #5 Spot
by Bill Baer on Thursday, March 11th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 5 Comments »
Jamie Moyer, 47, is recovering from three off-season surgeries on three torn groin muscles, the meniscus in his right knee, and pooled blood in his abdomen. His 2009 was forgettable as he finished with a 4.94 ERA and was removed ...
2008-09 Phillies Knocked On Wood
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 3 Comments »
Jeff Zimmerman (@JeffWZimmerman) at Beyond the Box Score has done some fantastic studies of injuries using a now-defunct database. Fortunately, he has uploaded a spreadsheet of his own which I will use as the basis for some of my observations ...
BDD: A Theory on the Acceptance of Sabermetrics
by Bill Baer on Saturday, March 6th, 2010Posted in Baseball Daily Digest, MLB, Sabermetrics | 13 Comments »
At Baseball Daily Digest, I try to put myself in the shoes of a casual fan looking at Sabermetrics. Despite the popular claim that you can always see something new in a baseball game, there are finite events that can occur ...
