Over and Under-Performances in Baserunning
Right now Eric Hosmer is the worst base runner of 2014 by a decent margin over Adam Dunn. This makes very little sense, well not the Adam Dunn part, but Eric Hosmer is an athletic player and not your...
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Breaking Down The Aging Curve
Ever since I read Jeff Zimmerman’s aging curve article in December I have been thinking more about aging curves in general. That has lead me to take a step back and start digging through players in a...
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Breaking Down the Aging Curve: Early 20s
If you missed the first part and want a little more explanation about what I am doing click here. I am going to start getting into the meat today with larger sample sizes and more typical groups of...
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Breaking Down the Aging Curve: Mid 20s
In case you missed parts 1 and 2, you can follow the links especially back to one if you want to see what I am doing. Otherwise it is time to look at the 24 year old cohort: There were 362 players in...
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Breaking Down the Aging Curve: Late 20s
This will cover the last set of cohorts, click the links for parts 1, 2, and 3 if you want more info on what I am doing or read on if you are already up to speed. Age 27 Cohort: This group started at...
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Breaking Down the Aging Curve Some More
Now that I have gone through the individual cohorts in parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 (click them if you need some background in what I am doing). To start I will show you three charts with some simple, and I...
View ArticleHistoric Lack of Positional Development All-Star Team
As a Royals fan, I have subject to a horrific progression of shortstops during my lifetime that seems to have finally come to an end with Alcides Escobar. That’s good because I am not sure I could...
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Changes ZiPS Believes In
Mitchel Lichtman’s projection pieces on hitters and pitchers for the rest of the season were discussed quite a lot last month starting with this. It is hard when you are rooting for a team, and...
View ArticleStreakiness
Streaks in sports are looked at a lot, just Google hot hand baseball, basketball, etc. There is a lot out there on whether or not players can actually get into a groove or if it is completely...
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Home Run Skewness, Babe Ruth, and Maybe PEDs
The breaking of baseball known as the dead-ball era is generally considered a phenomena of the 1919 Babe Ruth season where he hit a record 29 homers for the Red Sox. That was a good year, but not...
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Extreme Teams Past and Present
The way a team is built is always at the heart of discussions of free agent acquisition, trade analysis, optimal lineup construction, etc. It is what general managers are paid to do, and there are...
View ArticleOakland is Fine Without Cespedes
I’ll try to avoid covering too much of the same ground covered right here on Wednesday, but talk about why the Yoenis Cespedes trade will still probably help Oakland this season. The A’s are generally...
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Team Similarity Scores and 2014 Contenders
Teams have both success and failure in quite a lot of ways, so I am playing with a way of showing what teams look the most alike. To do this I have created a percent similar score as follows: First I...
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When Teams Collapse
Watching a team struggle in key games in September is possibly the most painful part of being a baseball fan. Sometimes they turn it around, but on some occasions a fan base watches a team go from a...
View ArticleAmerican League Team Depth
A couple of weeks ago Jeff Sullivan looked at a quick depth check for all the teams in baseball. Depth is a hard thing to measure, so I would prefer to look at it in another way and see if anything...
View ArticleNational League Team Depth
Last week I looked at the AL, so it is time to talk about the Senior Circuit depth. After that I will discuss the limitations that I think exist in both my approach and Jeff’s, part of which could be a...
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