The columnist is sick, he’s cranky, and he’s under medication. Therefore, he disavows responsibility for anything appearing in this space until further notice. — After a rough start to the season, the Anaheim Angels have taken to beating up the teams outside their division. Granted, they’ve gotten a healthy dose of the Blue Jays, but…
It took most of the first month, but BP’s team in the League of Alternative Baseball Reality edged out of the cellar and all the way up to 11th place. And we didn’t have to fire anybody to do it.
It took most of the first month, but BP’s team in the League of Alternative Baseball Reality edged out of the cellar and all the way up to 11th place. And we didn’t have to fire anybody to do it. Most of the gain has come on the pitching side, where the return of Greg…
Bonds, over his last 100 games or so, is perhaps the biggest statistical outlier in the game’s history. He breaks the formulae, in that the many walks Bonds takes are, collectively, less valuable than our usual tools for evaluating such things would perceive. He’s being given so many walks in RISP/first-base-empty situations that they are, if not a negative, certainly not the positive that, say, linear weights might indicate. They’re not a bad thing–and they certainly don’t warrant the kind of “Bonds should swing more” analysis that has been proffered–but the context of the walks is something to consider when evaluating his performance.
Yesterday, I provided an overview of Barry Bonds‘s amazing performance so far this season, and reaching back to the latter part of 2001. There’s no question that Bonds is the most dangerous hitter in the game today. However, I do believe that we’ve run into a problem with our advanced metrics. Bonds, over his last…
The type of analysis that we perform is an outgrowth of a passion for the game that we all had long before we ever knew about strikeout-to-walk ratio or context-neutral performance or career paths.
But, geez….628.
That�s Barry Bonds’s on-base percentage, a figure that is so far off the charts as to be mind-boggling.
Those of you who have had your fill of Barry Bonds will probably want to skip to Keith Woolner’s latest column. For the rest of you… .628 I’ve spent a lot of time making the point that I, my colleagues here at Baseball Prospectus, and the many other people who do the kind of work…
Lance Berkman was nice enough to stop at two home runs yesterday, so we’ll complete our look around the majors with some notes on National League performances to date.
Lance Berkman was nice enough to stop at two home runs yesterday, so we’ll complete our look around the majors with some notes on National League performances to date. The best position player on your World Champion Arizona Diamondbacks? Second baseman Junior Spivey, who only got his job thanks to injuries to Jay Bell and…
Those of you expecting a trip around the National League’s performances to date will have to wait another day. There’s a long-standing rule in this space that says when a player hits four home runs, we write about it.
Those of you expecting a trip around the National League’s performances to date will have to wait another day. There’s a long-standing rule in this space that says when a player hits four home runs, we write about it. (Hey, if Bud can claim that 60/40 is older than the Blue Jays…) Anyway, as you…
Just running through the AL stats, a month into the season, we marvel at Garret Anderson’s consistency, and try to keep Chad Bradford–the submarine reliever–straight from Corey Bradford, the NFL wide receiver.
Just running through the AL stats, a month into the season: Garret Anderson isn’t nearly as good the Angels, or many Angels fans, think he is, but geez, the guy is consistent. He’s at .315/.336/.528, which makes him an above-average AL left fielder. Anderson is only good when he’s at or near the top of…
Yesterday, ESPN.com ran a piece I wrote making the case that the National League has become the superior circuit. To bolster my argument, I included a chart that showed that at most positions, the NL had more of the top hitters.
I suppose one way to generate column ideas is to screw up. Yesterday, ESPN.com ran a piece I wrote making the case that the National League has become the superior circuit. To bolster my argument, I included a chart that showed that at most positions, the NL had more of the top hitters. Many people…
After four-plus seasons of really bad baseball, Tony Muser was fired last night by the Royals. The move wasn’t a surprise, and it wasn’t unwarranted: Muser had a success-to-tenure ratio envied by the people who run network television.