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| BP Announcements: Baseball Prospectus Day at Turner Field - June 15, 2013 (Last day to purchase tickets is June 7) | Joe Hamrahi | 2013-06-07 |
 | Western Front: They Took Their Turn | Geoff Young | 2013-02-04 |
| In A Pickle: The Four-Tool Teams | Jason Wojciechowski | 2012-12-20 |
| Wezen-Ball: The Hooded Menace | Larry Granillo | 2012-10-22 |
| Sobsequy: What Your Team's Choice of Radio Broadcaster Says About You | Adam Sobsey | 2012-08-15 |
| Transaction Analysis: Giants Extend Bumgarner | R.J. Anderson | 2012-04-18 |
| Transaction Analysis: 12 Years For Joey Votto | Ben Lindbergh | 2012-04-03 |
| Inside The Park: Ode to a Terrible Stat | Bradford Doolittle | 2012-02-23 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Greatness of Gary Carter | Jay Jaffe | 2012-02-17 |
| The BP Broadside: Fernandomania and Linsanity | Steven Goldman | 2012-02-16 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Keltner All Stars, Part I | Jay Jaffe | 2012-01-13 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Barry, Black Jack, and the Big Ballot Surges | Jay Jaffe | 2012-01-10 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Golden Era Ballot for the Hall of Fame | Jay Jaffe | 2011-11-22 |
| Wezen-Ball: Player Rankings for Type A/B Calculations, 1982-1984 | Larry Granillo | 2011-11-02 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Opponent Quality and the AL Cy Young Race | Jay Jaffe | 2011-09-12 |
| Divide and Conquer, NL East: The Curious Case of Javier Vazquez | Michael Jong | 2011-09-06 |
| BP Unfiltered: The Hallworthy Alomar and Blyleven | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-23 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Cooperstown's Backhanded Compliment | Jay Jaffe | 2011-07-22 |
| Divide and Conquer, AL West: The Year of the Pitcher... Again? | Joey Matschulat | 2011-06-03 |
| Prospectus Q&A: Jack O'Connell, Part II | David Laurila | 2011-01-21 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Class of 2011: Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-12-20 |
| Spinning Yarn: The Glavine Line | Mike Fast | 2010-10-14 |
| Changing Speeds: Closing Time | Ken Funck | 2010-09-30 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Disasterpiece Theater | Jay Jaffe | 2010-09-29 |
| Manufactured Runs: By Land, Sea, and Air | Colin Wyers | 2010-08-04 |
| The Week In Quotes: July 12-18 | Alex Carnevale | 2010-07-19 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Jacktastic! | Jay Jaffe | 2010-06-30 |
| Another Look: Pitchers Who Fizzled | Bob Hertzel | 2010-06-15 |
| BP Unfiltered: This Week in Minor League History: June 7 - June 13 | Geoff Young | 2010-06-11 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Tom Glavine | Jay Jaffe | 2010-02-17 |
| Prospectus Roundtable: Analyzing RoboPitcher | Baseball Prospectus | 2010-01-25 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Hall of Fame Cases for Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2010-01-06 |
| You Could Look It Up: He Should Have Picked Lee | Steven Goldman | 2009-11-01 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: From One to the Other | Jay Jaffe | 2009-10-29 |
| Prospectus Today: Bitter Endings | Joe Sheehan | 2009-10-01 |
| Prospectus Today: The Next 300-Game Winner? | Joe Sheehan | 2009-06-06 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Next 300 | Jay Jaffe | 2009-06-05 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2009-01-12 |
| Prospectus Today: The Old You're In, You're Out | Joe Sheehan | 2008-12-18 |
| On the Beat: Let the Games Begin | John Perrotto | 2008-10-01 |
| Every Given Sunday: Don't Look at Us Now | John Perrotto | 2008-09-14 |
| You Could Look It Up: The New Brew | Steven Goldman | 2008-07-08 |
| Prospectus Preview: Wednesday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-05-14 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: The Life and Times of Buzzie Bavasi, Part Two | Jay Jaffe | 2008-05-14 |
| Prospectus Preview: Tuesday's Games to Watch | Caleb Peiffer | 2008-04-29 |
| Can Of Corn: Pitching Milestones in Reach | Dayn Perry | 2008-04-24 |
| You Could Look It Up: Fun with Comparables | Steven Goldman | 2008-02-25 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Unfinished Business | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-31 |
| Prospectus Hit and Run: Dissecting the 2008 Hall of Fame Vote | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-09 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Dead Horses and Fifth Starters | Jim Baker | 2008-01-04 |
| The Class of 2008: The Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2008-01-03 |
| You Could Look It Up: Sweepers, Part 3 | Steven Goldman | 2007-11-12 |
| Hope and Faith: How the Boston Red Sox Can Win the World Series | Baseball Prospectus | 2007-10-29 |
| Playoff Prospectus: Josh Beckett | John Perrotto | 2007-10-23 |
| Lies, Damned Lies: Rookies and Cycles | Nate Silver | 2007-08-23 |
| Prospectus Matchups: 300 | Jim Baker | 2007-08-10 |
| History's Heights: Tom Glavine's Climb to 300 | John Perrotto | 2007-08-06 |
| Prospectus Today: Learning from Experience | Joe Sheehan | 2007-08-06 |
| Hope and Faith: How the Boston Red Sox Can Win the World Series | Keith Woolner | 2007-02-28 |
| Grumpy Old Men: JAWS Tackles the Veterans Committee Ballot | Jay Jaffe | 2007-02-26 |
| The Class of 2007: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2007-01-09 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Early Clincher | Jim Baker | 2006-06-27 |
| You Could Look It Up: Specialization Is My Specialty | Steven Goldman | 2006-05-15 |
| 2006--Setting the Stage: Pack Your Bag Well | Jay Jaffe | 2006-03-30 |
| The Class of 2006: Starting Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2005-12-16 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Balking At Walks | Jim Baker | 2005-06-03 |
| Prospectus Triple Play: Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers | Baseball Prospectus | 2005-02-10 |
| The Class of 2005: The Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2004-12-20 |
| AL Cy Young Voting: Thoughts on Unanimous Voting | Jim Baker | 2004-11-12 |
| Prospectus Matchups: Against the Wall | Jim Baker | 2004-10-26 |
| Aim For The Head: Hidden Perfect Games | Keith Woolner | 2004-04-27 |
| The Class of 2004: Analyzing the Pitchers | Jay Jaffe | 2004-01-14 |
| Aim For The Head: Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame | Keith Woolner | 2003-08-13 |
| Behind the Mask Q&A: Jim Evans, Part I | Jason Grady | 2003-05-03 |
| Prospectus Feature: Playing the Armchair Arbitrator | Nate Silver | 2003-02-06 |
| Prospectus Feature: 2002 STATLG-L Internet Hall of Fame | Neal Traven | 2002-12-09 |
| 6-4-3: Czervik! The Musical | Gary Huckabay | 2002-06-14 |
| The Week In Quotes: January 7-January 19 | Ryan Wilkins | 2002-01-20 |
BP Chats
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| 2010-06-28 14:00:00 | By happy coincidence, I daydreamed a question for you not more than a day ago, and here you are. Not that I'm trying to sneak in the backdoor, but do consistent players get any sort of boost in the public's estimation of their HoF chances, and should they? I think here of a Jack Morris. Even though his heights were more very good than HoF, his workmanlike consistency--on top of being relatable and making him seem like a good guy--kept Tigers fans from a lot of crappy starts from a more up and down pitcher. I wonder if consistency (if it could be defined) would ever end up having a predictive value on eventual election. Thanks for suffering a long question, Jay.
(Jim Clancy from Exhibition Stadium) | Consistency is pretty difficult to quantify, except perhaps in the way it enables players to accumulate the benchmark stats that most of the public regards as constituting "a good season." I think of Steve Garvey rapping out his 200 hits, 100 RBI and .300 batting average every year and how highly esteemed he was in his day, and yet how far his star has fallen in light of a more modern statistical reckoning. But then I also think of guys like Blyleven and Don Sutton who were pretty consistent on some levels but didn't rack up the 20-win seasons that some of their peers did, and aren't held on the same level as them even if they may have been more valuable.
In the end I suspect peak value holds more sway on the public's estimation of a potential HoFer, because people tend to remember the high points, the outliers, the things that break pattern rather than the pattern itself. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2009-12-17 13:00:00 | Thoughts on Posada's hall worthiness? If he and Damon are marginal, the '09 Yanks seem to have a lot of sure, possible, and potential HOFers on one team--which team had the most?
(Eli from Brooklyn) | I've written about Posada's Hall case more often than just about any active player in recent years; he needs to continue his strong hitting through the life of his contract in order to put himself in range, though winning another ring helped.
I believe that various Yankees of the late '20s and early '30s had as many as nine Hall of Famers plus manager at one point. It's tough to see these Yanks matching that. Jeter and Rivera are locks. A-Rod will need the steroid-related heat to cool off. Posada and Damon have to keep hitting, and Pettitte pitching his way into Don Sutton territory. Teixeira and Sabathia, both much further away, have to make good on their contracts and then some... and you're still a couple players and a manager way from topping that mark, which depeneded on the love from a much different Veterans Committee than we've got now. (Jay Jaffe) |
| 2008-10-24 14:00:00 | It seems like there are no players on either team who are already good Hall of Fame candidates (though guys like Utley, Upton, etc. have time to qualify.) Can you ever remember a Series without such an established veteran star?
(oira61 from San Francisco) | Wow, that's a good question, one that pretty much ties into what I was saying a couple of days ago about how rare it is to get two fresh teams facing off in the series for the first time in awhile. Add to that the fact that both teams are dominated by younger guys whose best days may still be ahead of them and you wind up with a situation like this. I'm jogging my memory and looking back over the WS matchups and thinking that we've hit a real stumper. At the time, people wondered aloud if the 1998 Yankees would yield a Hall of Famer, but now it's apparent that Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter will make it if nobody else does, to say nothing of Tony Gwynn from the opposite dugout.
The 1982 matchup maybe - at the time it certainly wasn't apparent that Ozzie Smith, Robin Yount, Paul Molitor or Don Sutton would make it (Sutton would win 60-something more games in the majors), adn Rollie Fingers was sidelined too. Definitely a question to sock away for future pondering. (Jay Jaffe) |
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