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.

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.

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.

Quoted: I’ve used Monte Carlo simulations, for example, in the analysis of wind speed fluctuations over time AND to generate Win Probability Added statistics for baseball games in the play by play era.