Aside from commentary on my recent Baseball Prospectus work, the most common subject of my reader email these day is Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS). As in, when is DIPS 2003 coming? Where is DIPS 2003? Are you publishing DIPS 2003? Why haven’t you published DIPS 2003? I’m pleased to announce that after focusing my …
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Reader Rob McMillan sent me a couple of emails pertaining to Frank McCourt’s pursuit of the Dodgers and called my attention to a handy timeline he’s put together, with links to relevant articles about the deal. In his first email, Rob was pleasanttly pessimistic about the deal going through: The “increasing support” for the McCourt …
Speaking of the commissioner, I took some pretty good shots at Bud Selig myself last week over an item buried in the L.A. Times’ coverage of the Vlad Guerrero signing. My interpretation of Bill Shaikin’s article was that Selig had effectively blackmailed would-be Dodger owner Frank McCourt out of signing Guerrero in exchange for the …
Baseball fans and Wisconsinites had reason to rejoice last Friday, when Wendy Selig-Prieb announced that the Milwaukee Brewers are being put up for sale. The longest-tenured ownership in major league baseball is on its way out, providing a glimmer of hope for a team which has suffered eleven straight losing seasons and a 21-year postseason …
On the heels of my dustup with some hired goons, two of my loyal readers added some input regarding my Whitey Ford comments which is worth addressing. Studes, a.k.a Dave Studenmund of the fine Baseball Graphs site, mentioned some information in Bill James’ Baseball Managers book in which the bearded one stated that Casey Stengel …
“Blame me if you must, but don’t ever speak ill of the Program! The Program is rock solid! The Program is sound!”– Homer J. Simpson My pal and frequent sparring partner in baseball arguments — I’ll call him Nick because he hates Nicholas, Nikolai and Nickypoo — took exception to one of my assertions in …
My second piece for Baseball Prospectus is up, this one analyzing the pitchers on the 2004 Hall of Fame ballot. It’s another epic — I had 15 pitchers to evaluate, after all — and this time it’s part of the site’s premium content, so you need to be a subscriber to read it. Which ought …
An L.A. Times article by Bill Shaikin about the Angels’ surprising signing of Vlad Guerrero buried this quote fairly deep: With major league owners scheduled to vote this month on whether to approve the bid of would-be Dodger buyer Frank McCourt, a source said Sunday that McCourt asked Commissioner Bud Selig whether some owners might …
I’m hard at work on my Hall stuff and having Internet connection problems today (my girlfriend made me a sign to post on my monitor that reads: “DANGER X WARNING! DO NOT WRITE IN BLOGGER,” with the X a skull and crossbones), but I decided to take a moment to respond to a Rose-related comment …
First off, thank you to everybody for the overwhelmingly positive response I received to my Baseball Prospectus debut. The recognition of the long hours I put into that piece and the encouragement I’ve received for doing so have made it a very gratifying experience, one I hope I can repeat with my follow-up article on …