If you’re a baseball stat freak like me, your world just became a little more complete this weekend: baseball-reference.com, the online encyclopedia of baseball statistics, has added stats for 2002 to its database. Wo-hoo! Player stats, team stats, league stats, postseasons, award winners, league leaders, career leaders, similarity scores, birthday finders and a million other …
A Splash of Colon? My eyes were too numb at the end of my previous piece to tack on an analysis of Expos pitcher Bartolo Colon, whose numbers I ran because he’s been the subject of trade rumors here and there. Given that the New York Post has twice in the past week floated rumors …
Remaking the Yankees for 2003, Part III: Filling the Rotation In my last installment, I broke down the performance of the Yankees’ 2002 pitching rotation, using traditional stats, rate stats and DIPS to gain different perspectives on their starters’ performance. This time we’ll see how the team’s options stack up for 2003. Having spent all …
Defending My Crown After vigorous consultation with my staff of trained monkeys, I’ve submitted my picks for Baseball Primer’s Second Annual Free-Agent Fiesta in order to defend my title as the Best Pickinest Free-Agent Guesser of the Internet. The monkeys have been been busy, tirelessly working the phones with baseball’s front-office people and blackmailing Peter …
Nice Move, DIPShit I went back to playing around with the pitching spreadsheet I used to calculate my DIPS numbers referred to in the article below, and discovered that I made an error in calculating the Yankee park factor. Basically, I transposed two digits for the Yankee home at-bat total, which should have been 2907 …
Free-Agent Fiesta Baseball Primer is holding its second-annual Free-Agent Fiesta. The object is to guess the destinations of 20 free agents: Jim Thome Greg Maddux Jeff Kent Tom Glavine Ivan Rodriguez Roger Clemens Cliff Floyd John Olerud Jamie Moyer Steve Finley Paul Byrd Edgardo Alfonzo Frank Thomas Woody Williams David Justice Bill Mueller Ramiro Mendoza …
Remaking the Yankees for 2003, Part II: Assessing the Rotation The 2002 Yankees were a shining example of the axiom, “You can’t have too much pitching.” With the luxury to spend (and spend, and spend), the Yanks ensured themselves a starting rotation that remained among the game’s elite, while having the depth to withstand injuries …
Remaking the Yankees for 2003, Part I: The Money Last winter, I wrote a series of articles examining the offseason personnel choices facing the Yankees. The series was fun to write, well-received, and it helped put me on the map in the world of baseball blogs; to this day, I think it stands as some …
Keep Those Bloggies Rollin’ I’ve added a new feature to this page, a blogroll, courtesy of blogrolling.com. At left, below the not-so-Recent Updates section is a list of links to other baseball-related sites, mostly weblogs. I’ve still got my Links page, which is much more extensive and contains short descriptions of each site (the applicable …
“Any time a billionaire asks you for my phone number, go ahead and give it to him. I’ll sort things out later.” Those were the words of sabermetrician Bill James to ESPN’s Rob Neyer after being informed that his protegé had passed his contact number to John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox. Last …