derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2009 | baseball, graphs, charts, visualizations, cool, infographics
Baseball visualizations galore.
Quoted: Flip Flop Fly Ball. Baseball infographics and other visual treats.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2009 | baseball, web gem, insane, video, awesome, gutierrez
Holy crap, that catch by Gutierrez ... jaw dropping. I watched it three times and it still looks impossible.
Quoted: Rewind Recap: Jarrod Washburn tossed eight scoreless frames and Brandon Morrow held on for the save to beat Minnesota
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2009 | baseball, mlb, news, angels, nick adenhart
Tragic ... just saw him pitch last night.
Quoted: Nick Adenhart killed in traffic accident.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 26 2009 | the show, video, baseball, video games
click to playGreat commercial.
Quoted: 2008 American League MVP, and MLB 09 The Show Cover Athlete, Dustin Pedroia debates with PlayStation whether he can hit the high-and-inside fastball. Comedy...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 06 2009 | mariners, baseball, seattle, sabermetrics
Having read much of tangotiger's work, this is great news.
Quoted: Derek noted it in passing in his thread on Blengino's BP interview, but it deserves its own post. The Mariners have hired Tom Tango as a consultant to assist
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 12 2008 | mariners, seattle, blogs, baseball
Jack Zduriencik continues to get high marks from me. He definitely seems to have a plan.
Quoted: The idea is that the team will receive video of their opponents and have workers in the new department break down each pitch from a statistical viewpoint. They can grade the break on curve balls, tendencies to throw certain pitches in certain situations, figure out what hitters like to swing at, that sort of thing.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2008 | news, baseball, sabermetrics, moneyball, books
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.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2008 | strasburg, sweepstakes, draft, baseball
If the M's lose everything to close out the season, Strasburg is a Mariner ... for an indication of why people find that so exciting, refer to his numbers in this game.
Quoted: San Diego State sophomore righthander Stephen Strasburg struck out 23 batters in a complete-game one-hitter Friday against Utah. It’s hard to decide if the scariest ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2008 | baseball, defense, stats, sabermetrics
Is Adrian Beltre the most valuable defensive player in baseball? It's possible.
Is Raul Ibanez a worse defender than Manny Ramirez? Also possible.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | mariners, baseball, seattle
Quoted: This whole situation with expecting value back for Washburn is absurd on so many levels. The Mariners are like a guy who got suckered into a timeshare presentation in Mexico, and spent $20,000 on a one week per year one-bedroom condo with $1000 per year in fees. Now the guy is trying to find someone in his office who will buy it from him for $10,000 - half price, he tells them - but the reality is that he's lucky if he can simply find someone who will take that albatross off his hands for nothing. He still thinks this is something valuable because, after all, he paid $20,000 for it, didn't he?
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- derek - Jan 03 2008
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.i dunno, we definitely need some power in the outfield, but I don't see a ton of that yet in his 3 year split at U.S. Cellular Field:
AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS
37 5 14 4 0 1 9 6 9 .378 .455 .568 1.023
then again, he is young...so who knows...it just makes me nervous when we tried high prospects like this...
needed to get something done, just forget those three were ever soxies :P
Small sample size alert, but those are great power numbers anyways. A-Rod had a monster 2007 by any measure -- he OPS'ed 1.067 (with better power numbers, but still ...).
Swisher is the real deal, but defensively lacking and ... well, I wouldn't give up 2 top tier prospects for him. I don't like the deal for the pale hose.
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