In response to Tuesday’s piece about the Dodgers, reader Andy Vogel piped up in the comments to call me on the following statement about Cesar Izturis: “batting him first or second, as Dodger manager Jim Tracy did all year, is a pretty awful idea.” Quite reasonably, Vogel asked the following: How do you square this …
This one is for the technically-minded… Even those of you who frequent this site might have missed the tweaks I finally got around to dealing with on Tuesday. The biggest thing is that the home page to this site is now http://www.futilityinfielder.com/home.php to enable my RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed to display snippets of my …
My recent chat with Jon Weisman caught the attention of the L.A. Observed blog, which is focused mainly on “[m]edia, culture, books and the politics of Los Angeles and California”. In particular, our discussion of L.A. Times writers Bill Plaschke and T.J. Simers seems to have whetted the Observed’s appetite for more. Cool. Meanwhile, the …
Here we go again… for the third year in a row, I am presenting Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS) via this website. DIPS was invented by an analyst named Voros McCracken, whose studies of pitching statistics suggest that major league pitchers do not differ greatly on their ability to prevent hits on balls in play. …
The Dodgers have been generating plenty of headlines this offseason, with GM Paul DePodesta completing a decisive overhaul of the roster he inherited upon taking the helm last February. He’s generated no small amount of controversy in the process. Even after the Dodgers won the NL West for the first time since 1995 and earned …
A couple of years back, Baseball Prospectus’ Dayn Perry took a look at the post-Moneyball backlash that pitted traditional scouting against performance analysis and coined a metaphor for the ages. “Should you run an organization with scouts or statistics?” asked Dayn, before providing the solution himself. “My answer is the same it would be if …
It’s a banner day for me at Baseball Prospectus Radio — literally. The new BPR banner which I designed late last year has finally been put in place, and two recent episodes of the show with spots by yours truly are archived for your listening pleasure. The first episode dates back to December 16, just …
All right, Yankee fans and readers of quality baseball writing on this here web-o-ma-phone, you’ve got a nice little addition to your reading list to celebrate. Steven Goldman, who writes the essential Pinstriped Bible column for the YES website, has added a new little widget, the Pinstriped Blog. Goldman is — and I say this …
A hail of bullets to give you folks a reading list while I plow ahead with an unexpected deadline (another BP thing) and scarf down some lunch, and then I’m back to work… • The Hall of Fame voting results were announced on Tuesday, with two men getting enough votes for enshrinement: Wade Boggs and …
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First off, a belated but nonetheless heartfelt Happy New Year to all of my readers. I returned from Milwaukee last night after being more or less at the center of attention for the past few days, with a birthday dinner, a bachelor party, and an engagement party broken up only by New Years’ Eve and …