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| BP Unfiltered: Gonzalez Germen and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Inning | Ben Lindbergh | 2013-06-14 |
 | In A Pickle: All-Stars Are Not All Stars | Jason Wojciechowski | 2013-02-21 |
| BP Unfiltered: Is Jack Morris the Best Pitcher of an Era? | Colin Wyers | 2013-01-08 |
| Raising Aces: Four of a Kind: Oakland's Aces | Doug Thorburn | 2012-08-31 |
| Transaction Analysis: 12 Years For Joey Votto | Ben Lindbergh | 2012-04-03 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Don Mincher, Part 2 | David Laurila | 2012-03-07 |
| The BP Broadside: Fernandomania and Linsanity | Steven Goldman | 2012-02-16 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Money Poorly Spent, Now and Then | John Perrotto | 2012-01-27 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Pitching to the Score | Greg Spira | 2011-12-30 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Morris on the Ballot, Smith to Close | Jay Jaffe | 2011-12-30 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Golden Era Ballot for the Hall of Fame | Jay Jaffe | 2011-11-22 |
| Painting the Black: Sizing Up the Playoff Rotations | R.J. Anderson | 2011-09-29 |
| The Lineup Card: 12 Favorite Baseball Songs that are NOT by The Baseball Project | Baseball Prospectus | 2011-08-03 |
| BP Unfiltered: The Hallworthy Alomar and Blyleven | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-23 |
| The BP Wayback Machine: Un-Stars | James Click | 2011-06-30 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Yankees' Virgin Spring | Jay Jaffe | 2011-06-27 |
| Clubhouse Confidential: Coneheads, Meet Statheads | Marc Carig | 2011-05-31 |
| Changing Speeds: What's In A Name? | Ken Funck | 2011-03-08 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Don Mincher, Part II | David Laurila | 2011-01-12 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-20 |
| Another Look: The Yankee Princess | Bob Hertzel | 2010-11-15 |
| Spinning Yarn: The Glavine Line | Mike Fast | 2010-10-14 |
| BP Unfiltered: Skip Lockwood: A Remarkable Unremarkable Career | David Laurila | 2010-10-13 |
| Another Look: The 1972 World Series | Bob Hertzel | 2010-10-12 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Darold Knowles | David Laurila | 2010-09-07 |
| You Can Blog It Up: The Surly, Hung-Over Billy Martin All-Stars | Steven Goldman | 2010-08-08 |
| Manufactured Runs: By Land, Sea, and Air | Colin Wyers | 2010-08-04 |
| You Could Look It Up: Steinbrenner: Baseball Operator | Steven Goldman | 2010-07-14 |
| One-Hoppers: Bluster and Luster: George Steinbrenner (1930-2010) | Jay Jaffe | 2010-07-13 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Jacktastic! | Jay Jaffe | 2010-06-30 |
| Contractual Matters: International Timeline | Jeff Euston | 2010-06-28 |
| Another Look: Growing Up with a Future Big Leaguer | Bob Hertzel | 2010-05-25 |
| You Can Blog It Up: DPOTD Thurman Munson: An Alternative History of the 1986 World Series | Steven Goldman | 2010-05-15 |
| BP Unfiltered: Five Minutes with The Spaceman | David Laurila | 2010-03-31 |
 | Team Health Reports: Seattle Mariners | Will Carroll | 2010-02-17 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hall of Fame Cases for Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-06 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Ross Grimsley | David Laurila | 2009-05-03 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Al Fitzmorris | David Laurila | 2009-03-01 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-12 |
| Every Given Sunday: Not Actually Getting Ink Done. | John Perrotto | 2009-01-11 |
| Prospectus Today: The Old You're In, You're Out | Joe Sheehan | 2008-12-18 |
| Prospectus Preview: ALCS Game Seven | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-10-19 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Butch Wynegar | David Laurila | 2008-09-21 |
| Prospectus Preview: Sunday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-08-24 |
| Prospectus Today: Schilling in History | Joe Sheehan | 2008-06-21 |
| Prospectus Preview: Tuesday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-04-22 |
| You Could Look It Up: Topping the Twins? | Steven Goldman | 2008-02-11 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Putting Cys in Motion | Jim Baker | 2008-02-01 |
| The Class of 2008: Relievers | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-04 |
| The Class of 2008: The Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-03 |
| Prospectus Matchups: The Freshmen | Jim Baker | 2007-11-30 |
| You Could Look It Up: Sweepers, Part 3 | Steven Goldman | 2007-11-12 |
| Prospectus Today: The Buehrle Dilemma | Joe Sheehan | 2007-06-28 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Playing Favorites | Dan Fox | 2007-06-28 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Hummingbirds and Sloths | Dan Fox | 2007-05-03 |
| Bad Contracts: Money Poorly Spent, Now and Then | John Perrotto | 2007-02-20 |
| Schrodinger's Bat: Age Before Beauty | Dan Fox | 2007-02-15 |
| The Class of 2007: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2007-01-09 |
| You Could Look It Up: No Hitters Ain't That Special, Part Two | Steven Goldman | 2006-09-14 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Early Clincher | Jim Baker | 2006-06-27 |
| The Ledger Domain: Walter O'Malley and Marvin Miller For the Hall of Fame | Maury Brown | 2006-06-05 |
| JAWS 2006: From the Mailbag | Jay Jaffe | 2006-01-30 |
| The Class of 2006: Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2005-12-16 |
| Prospectus Notebook: Royals, Mariners | Baseball Prospectus | 2005-11-23 |
| Prospectus Today: The King? | Joe Sheehan | 2005-08-15 |
| Prospectus Hit List: Week of August 7 | Jay Jaffe | 2005-08-09 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: BABIP, Again | Nate Silver | 2005-04-20 |
| The Class of 2005: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2004-12-20 |
| Prospectus Today: Into the Mailbag | Joe Sheehan | 2004-12-06 |
| One Man is an Island: Barry Bonds and His Teammates | Jay Jaffe | 2004-10-04 |
| Prospectus Triple Play: Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates | Baseball Prospectus | 2004-04-12 |
| Prospectus Triple Play: Anaheim Angels, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers | Baseball Prospectus | 2004-03-04 |
| The Class of 2004: Analyzing the Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2004-01-14 |
| Prospectus Today: And to All a Good Night... | Joe Sheehan | 2003-12-24 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Mark Armour & Dan Levitt, Part II | Jonah Keri | 2003-08-19 |
| Prospectus Today: Hall of Fame Dilemmas | Joe Sheehan | 2003-06-17 |
| Under The Knife: O-Day Approaching | Will Carroll | 2003-03-24 |
| The Impossible Dream: How the 1967 Red Sox Won the Pennant | Mark Armour | 2003-03-17 |
| The Proper Support: Did Bert Blyleven Receive it? | Greg Spira | 2003-03-06 |
BP Chats
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| 2011-08-04 13:00:00 | Your JAWS articles are one of my favorite parts of the site. Is Catfish Hunter the most underqualified member of the HOF in recent memory? The topic was brought up on a message board recently and the consensus was that I was an idiot for thinking Hunter isn't an obvious HOFer. I was surprised at how poorly Hunter measured via WARP. He seems to have benefited a lot via his home park, the pitching version of Jim Rice, if you will, and his career ERA+ is only 105, which puts him about on par with Tim Wakefield. Actually, my quick estimate of JAWS scores has Wakefield as only 2 points worse than Hunter.
(The Groovin' Mahoovin from Atlantic City, NJ) | Thanks for the kind words. Hunter fares poorly on the JAWS scale because of his middling run prevention, and while he's slightly further from the standard at starting pitching than Rice is in left field, he's slightly closer in terms of peak - he was washed up at 33 years old due to injuries that may have had something to do with the problems that felled him later in life. Furthermore, he dusts Rice when it comes to the postseason, having won five World Series rings. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2010-07-23 13:00:00 | What does JAWS say about George Steinbrenner's chances of making the Hall of Fame?
(K. Olbermann from New York, NY) | Oh, a wise guy, eh? JAWS is notably silent on the non-numerical aspects of the Hall, even moreso when it comes to owners. Joe Posnanski recently had an excellent post on the small sample of them in the Hall of Fame. Suffice it to say that if Tom Yawkey, an open racist who ran his team like a country club and spent lavishly in pursuit of a championship that never came is in the Hall of Fame, then Jeffrey Loria belongs, to say nothing of the twice-suspended Steinbrenner.
That said, I do believe you can make a stronger case for him than that. Yes, it's possible the Yankees might not have won without his suspensions given that the groundwork for both was laid during them, but anyone who thinks he was divorced from the team's affairs during that period is deluded - read John Helyar's excellent Lords of the Realm to find out how involved he was in the Catfish Hunter signing, for example. I think he belongs. So does a previous Yankee owner, Jacob Ruppert. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2009-03-06 14:00:00 | Ok, I know it's not likely, but say jamie moyer sticks arounds long enough to get to 300 wins. He's 54 away, and signed for two years. The writers will love the story, and will probably elect him, right? Would he have the lowest jaws score of a HOF pitcher?
(Mike from Chicago) | No, not by a longshot. If his career ended today he'd be on the border between the third and fourth quartiles. There are relievers and short-career VC selections below him, and even guys like Catfish Hunter. (Jay Jaffe) |
BP Roundtables
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| 2010-07-13 16:30:00 | All-Star Game | Mike (oakland): Was Catfish Hunter better than Andy Petitte?
He was more famous, and perhaps more colorful, but ultimately, he was not as good at run prevention in his day as Pettite has been in his. Hunter's Pitching Runs Above Average mark is actually in the red, and he was worth just 33.8 WARP over the course of his career; a couple of his seemingly-normal looking seasons come in at replacement level once you adjust for park and era (18-14, 3.81 ERA in 1970, for one). Pettitte is at 58.0 and counting.
And they now have the same number of rings if I'm not mistaken. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2010-07-13 16:30:00 | All-Star Game | Oh, absolutely, Steve. Was just reminding myself of that while re-reading John Helyar's Lords of the Realm, about how the Catfish Hunter deal went down. Steinbrenner and Gabe Paul had breakfast the day the deal was struck, and I don't think the topic of discussion was grandchildren. (Jay Jaffe) |
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