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January 30, 2013 BP AnnouncementsBaseball Prospectus Visits Rangers Ballpark - April 21, 2013 2013 Stadium events kick off in Arlington
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December 25, 2012 BP UnfilteredChristmas 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: December 24, 2012 BP Fantasy PodcastEpisode 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". Subscribe on iTunes (thanks for the ratings and feedback!) All other audio formats to download Madden article referenced in the show Brookover article referenced in the show fantasyhour@baseballprospectus.com @sporer @jasoncollette Total show time: 1 hours, 56 minutes Happy Holidays
December 23, 2012 BP UnfilteredDaily 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. December 22, 2012 BP UnfilteredDaily 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. December 21, 2012 BP UnfilteredThe 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? Wezen-BallApocalyptic 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. BP UnfilteredThe Best Comments About Mike Minor from May Things people said that look less smart in retrospect (and probably didn't sound that smart at the time).
Elsewhere on the site today, I have an article up about Braves starter Mike Minor, who was awful early in the season and excellent (at least in terms of preventing runs) after May. In that article, I referred to a May 22nd post by Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who cited Minor's respectable xFIP and dared to raise the idea—without ever officially endorsing it, mind you—that he might not continue to allow home runs quite as often as he had to that point. That post got 107 comments. These are the best 15.
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