Archive for February 2010

While I was doing some research on a related topic this morning, I ran across an entertaining article from 2005 about the usage of baseballs during a major league game. These little behind-the-scenes stories of the game fascinate me for some reason.

Joe Hamrahi of Baseball Daily Digest has provided us with a spreadsheet of a compilation of prospect rankings from various sources of each organization. The ranking are separated by division in the tabs below. Just a quick overview of the spreadsheet shows that there appears to be a general consesnus among the sources over the […]

Some of the more interesting things going on around the interwebs: -A free player injury database courtesy of Josh Hermseyer. Let me echo the rest of the known world when I say thanks, Josh. -Three really cool interviews. One with new Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos and the other with the Senior Quantitative Analyst for the […]

I get where John Sickels is coming from. I echo some of his sentiments, some of his hesitancy to embrace the newest of the new in today’s metrics. I feel a little bit over my skis in today’s sabermetric community. I may write for a sabermetrics-focused website, but like Sickels my training is distinctly non-math […]

Some amazing work here from Josh Hermsmeyer: The work was hard, but I’m pleased to report my portion of it is finished (for now). I’m making the CSV file and the SQL dump available for download here. I’m hoping the community will find it useful enough to help me keep it updated. All players are […]

Boston’s emphasis on defense this off-season has been well known. New acquisitions Marco Scutaro, Adrian Beltre and Mike Cameron all have strong reputations for their defensive abilities. Boston also went out and signed the top free agent pitcher in John Lackey. The question many fans are wondering is just how much they will improve from […]

Rob Neyer had a piece yesterday on his blog about the Yankees current outfield situation. A quick summary: Granderson’s defense in center field has gotten mixed reivews, and the Yankees are considering playing him in left. I’m usually a big Rob Neyer fan and agree with most things he writes, but not today. Here is […]

Pat Andriola and I accidentally wrote about the same exact thing today. Thankfully, we approached the topic in different ways, and both versions are up for your perusal Over the last decade, baseball has undergone a major transformation. We started the decade in the heart of the steroid era, then came the Moneyball revolution, and […]

If you’re confused, see the note at the top of this post for an explanation In a fresh post at his wonderful blog, John Sickels gives his rather timid two cents on the newest advances in sabermetrics, exemplified here: I enjoyed the first two years of grad school and performed well, but in the third […]

Two-thirds of the Colorado Rockies’ outfield is set in stone. Carlos Gonzalez (projected for 2.6 Wins Above Replacement in 2010 by CHONE) and Dexter Fowler (2.2 projected WAR), both entering their age 24 seasons, are franchise pillars. In right field, Colorado figures to pencil in Brad Hawpe on most nights. That’s a shame, because the […]