sabermetrics

Crazy!

Quoted: Brad Pitt is adding to his busy schedule by playing ball for Columbia..Los Angeles, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Columbia pitches 'Moneyball' to Pitt.

Is Adrian Beltre the most valuable defensive player in baseball? It's possible.

Is Raul Ibanez a worse defender than Manny Ramirez? Also possible.

+1! +1!

Heh, the Bavasi hate fest continues.

Quoted: A pitcher who just a year ago was detrimental to his team is now making 12 million annually. In fairness to Silva he did allow more line drives than before in 2006, but this signing is inexcusable for me - pitchers like Ted Lilly, Javier Vazquez, and Gil Meche are making - Silva isn't nearly as good as that trio.

After a little research, my suspicions were confirmed: this story is a hoax. I probably wouldn't have followed up if not for the part about Jake rebuffing the Yankees' recruiting efforts. I did notice the "Irving Clifford" mention, but missed its significance.

Quoted: I first heard about Jake Floyd last summer. I was doing research on minor league franchises when someone mentioned that a small-town team in Arizona had a 12-year-old as its general manager. At first I’d assumed it was the latest in a long tradition of minor league publicity stunts, like the club in New Hampshire that let the skier Bode Miller play left field, or those teams in Kansas City that played a couple of innings of their game on a Microsoft Xbox.

FJM, brilliant as usual.

Quoted: How is that the conclusion?! The conclusion should be: in small numbers of data points, there is bound to be enormous fluctuation. This is like saying: yesterday it was sunny, today it poured. Surely, some Fertility God disapproved of our elk sacrifice.

Quoted: linear weights, baseball analysis, baseball stats, win shares, pete palmer, bill james, runs created, baseball, baseruns, base runs

Awesome.

Quoted: The next obvious question is that if David Ortiz embodies clutch ability, then there must be a player who embodies everything that Ortiz isn’t… or a player that isn’t everything that Ortiz is… something like that. I need a poster boy for anti-clutch.