Schrodinger’s Bat: Inching Along
12/13Fueled by reader feedback, Dan makes some adjustments to his new defensive metric.
Schrodinger’s Bat: Defense and Alphabet Soup
12/06RF, FR, FRAA, FRAR, UZR, ZR, PMR, DRA, SAFE, and, for the first time, Dan introduces SFR.
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11/29It's the season of giving, and Dan's got something every stathead wants in his or her stocking--BIPChart 2.5
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: Minor League Baserunning Awards
11/15With awards season upon us, Dan looks to the minors to crown this year's best and worst baserunners down on the farm.
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11/08Dan invests a bit of time to come up with something pretty authoritative on the subject.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: My First Full Season
11/01Memories of this fan's rite of passage engender a look back at 1977 on the bases.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: Free Stuff and the Men in Blue
10/25Postseason umpiring and an early holiday present for our readers.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: The Baserunning Edition
10/18Dan runs down the 2007 leaderboards in baserunning metrics, and crowns a player who helped his team the most on the basepaths.
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10/11Ranging across a couple of old and new themes, explaining that there's something about the weather, and Pythagoras can rock steady.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: A Rocky Mountain Retrospective
10/04A look back out our look forward, and an analysis of how well things played out on this particular Rockie road.
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9/27Dan addresses two common reader questions concerning his baserunning metrics and the Fish data.
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9/20Revisiting baserunning metrics to see how much credit, if any, should go to runners when a pitcher makes a mistake.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: The Return of the Fish Eye
9/13Building off of his look at Wily Mo Pena, Dan revisits his work in visualizing and quantifying plate discipline.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: Wily Mo Redux
9/06With the Wily Mo era in Boston now over, Dan revisits his first Baseball Prospectus column to see how things may have changed for the young slugger.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: Tilting the Playing Field
8/30Returning to a subject from this past winter, Dan digs in to discuss the all-time greats.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightSchrodinger’s Bat: Visualizing Pitches
8/23After digging through this data, you'll no longer wonder why they say hitting is the hardest thing to do in sports.
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