Begrudgingly Addressing the Howard-Pujols Rumor
by Bill Baer on Sunday, March 14th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 2 Comments »
If you were away from the Internet today, you missed the big rumor. Per ESPN's Buster Olney: [...] according to sources, an idea has been kicked around the Phillies' organization internally, with discussions about proposing a swap of slugger Ryan Howard ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finding An Utley in A Haystack
by Bill Baer on Thursday, March 4th, 2010Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 5 Comments »
I happened to be perusing Baseball Reference earlier. Okay, I didn't "happen" to find myself there, as I hang around BBref like teenagers hang around convenience stores... but I came across the amateur draft in the year 2000. Why is 2000 ...
