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Baseball Prospectus Visits Rangers Ballpark - April 21, 2013

2013 Stadium events kick off in Arlington

Baseball Prospectus and the Texas Rangers invite you to join us for a great day of baseball on Sunday, April 21 at Rangers Ballpark.Thanks to the fine folks in the Rangers front office, we are proud to be able to offer our guests the following:

• Admittance to a private "meet and greet" with special guests and Baseball Prospectus personalities (including Jason Parks, Joe Hamrahi, Paul Sporer, Jason Cole, and Kendall Rogers from Perfect Game) in the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame room 2 hours prior to game time
• All you can eat grilled chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, nachos, and soft drinks served in an air-conditioned grill in the Upper Home Run Porch
• A question and answer session with Texas Rangers General Manager Jon Daniels
• Ticket to Rangers Ballpark to watch the Rangers take on the Seattle Mariners with Baseball Prospectus fans and staff
• A $15 coupon to be used toward a new Baseball Prospectus Premium subscription or your next Premium renewal

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BP Daily Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 108: What Position Should Ian Kinsler Play?/How Do You Know When You Need a New GM?

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about Ian Kinsler, how to decide when it's time to change GMs, R.A. Dickey and the dome, and more.

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BP Unfiltered

Christmas for Free Agents

History suggests that you won't be distracted by baseball news today.

Courtesy of Retrosheet and Baseball-Reference, here’s a list of every professional free agent who has ever signed with a team on Christmas day:

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BP Fantasy Podcast

Episode 27: I Wanna Know What WAR Is

Jason and Paul talk about the latest trades, signings, and go on a Hall of Fame rant related to some recent silliness by the "protectors of the game".

Jason and Paul talk about the latest trades, signings, and go on a Hall of Fame rant related to some recent silliness by the "protectors of the game".

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Total show time: 1 hours, 56 minutes

Happy Holidays

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BP Unfiltered

Daily Draft Video: Weekend Flashback (Zunino vs Hultzen)

Daily Draft Video Weekend Flashback takes a look at today's top prospects before they were pros.

Mike Zunino and Danny Hultzen were two of the top prospects featured in this year's Seattle Mariners Top 10 Prospects here at Baseball Prospectus. Today’s Draft Video Weekend Flashback features these former top five overall picks (combined $10.35MM) in pre-draft action.

BP Unfiltered

Daily Draft Video: Weekend Flashback (Fulmer vs Cecchini)

Daily Draft Video Weekend Flashback takes a look at today's top prospects before they were pros.

Michael Fulmer and Gavin Cecchini were two of the top prospects featured in this year's New York Mets Top 10 Prospects here at Baseball Prospectus. Today’s Draft Video Weekend Flashback features Fulmer and Cecchini in pre-draft action.

BP Unfiltered

The Philosophy of Park Factors

Why we don't use component park factors in TAv.

There was some chatter on Twitter this morning about park factors, and Marc Normandin made the point that all of the most common park-adjusted offensive stats out there (TAv, OPS+, wRC+) use "generic" run-based park factors, not component park factors. (Baseball Prospectus does have component park factors which we use in PECOTA, and we use those to generate our run-based park factors, but we use run-based park factors in TAv.) Marc wondered if using one-size-fits-all rather than the component factors might lead to inaccuracies—after all, we know different parks affect different types of hitters in different ways, and our park adjustment methods here don't account for that. (Marc isn't the first to raise this point, by the way.) So why do we all do it this way?

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Wezen-Ball

Apocalyptic Fiction (Featuring the Chicago Cubs)

It's the eve of armageddon and a major league manager controls the fate of the world.

It's the eve of armageddon and a major league manager controls the fate of the world.

The Cold War rages, tensions are high. The Soviets have positioned troops in Sri Lanka and the Americans are insisting that they be removed. Meanwhile, Al Tiller, manager of the Chicago Cubs, is positioning his club for their first pennant in over forty years. Armed with the checkbook of new Cubs owner Chester A. Rowdy, the billionaire discoverer of an Alabaman super worm, the northsiders have one of the most expensive and powerful offenses ever assembled. It doesn't matter if their shortstop and second baseman are both really third baseman when they're being paid obscene amounts of money to help the team.

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