When I was seven years old, my dad called me into the living room to watch a Phillies‘ great in the twilight of his career-Mike Schmidt. He told me this was the best Phillie ever, and that I should watch him bat. He struck out. I turned to my dad with a look that must…
What do you know about what the baseball draft produces? Most fans probably have some sense of the history of their favorite team’s high profile draft picks. For instance, I’m a Phillies fan, and most Phillies fans know that many of their current stars, such as Cole Hamels, Chase Utley, and Jimmy Rollins, are the…
“You… can be a millionaire… and never pay taxes! You can be a millionaire… and never pay taxes! You say… ‘Steve… how can I be a millionaire… and never pay taxes?’ First… get a million dollars.” –Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live, 1978 I can’t tell you how to be a millionaire without paying taxes, but…
Voros McCracken wrote on Baseball Prospectus over eight years ago to release one of the most controversial findings in the history of sabermetric thought: he said that pitchers only control whether a hitter strikes out, walks, hits a homerun, or hits the ball in play, but have little to no control over whether a ball…
Bio: My name is Matt Swartz, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and I will be completing my degree this Spring. In my dissertation, I have applied economic theory to study dating and marriage, as a metaphor for how learning and matching work together. Meanwhile, I have gotten…