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• BDD: The Matt Lindstrom Conundrum

  
  crashburnalley.com — Authority: 125
  At Baseball Daily Digest, I take a look at Matt Lindstrom and determine if he’s worth the risk to the several teams interested in trading for his services.His runners left on base percentage (LOB%) was 61.6% after previously resting at 72.3% and 76.3% the previous two seasons. Aha. Lindstrom was allowing hits at ...
  7 hours ago

• Is the WAR-salary model broken?

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  In light of the Polanco / Scutaro signings among others, someone asked:4) Are we sure the “model” is even right?The model is right.  The model says that wins are paid for at a linear rate, above the replacement level.The model, being a model, and not a forecaster, would need to be fitted after-the-fact.  If it ...
  2 days ago

• Why so few arbitration offers for free agents?

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Tommy Bennett notes:Of the 21 Type-A free agents who could be offered arbitration, 11 were not… Of the 53 Type-B free agents, 38 were not offered arbitration.... the salary a free agent receives is likely to be similar to that which he received the year before (and, under the CBA, it may not be less than 80 percent ...
  2 days ago

• Max on run value of pitch, by count

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  By the way, I call them “plate count” to distinguish them from “pitch count” (like, he threw 121 pitches).  If anyone’s been similarly bothered, you can see if my alternative helps you a bit.I’m trying to understand Max here.  First, I like his graph here, which makes it clear:You want your slider to go ...
  2 days ago

• Game Score using FIP

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  No, I’m not talking about this recent BtB article, which does some good work.I am instead talking about this article that came out a few months after the unveiling of FIP 5 years ago, back when DIPS was all the rage, and he shows you all his work:What would a DIPS-based game score look like?  Also, why not make ...
  2 days ago

• Explaining the win to dollar translation

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Dave has an excellent summary:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-dollar-value-of-a-win/I’ll repost my favorite part:Here is an example of how you should use the valuation. We have Chone Figgins’ 2009 value at $27.4 million, based on his +6.1 win season. No one is going to pay Figgins that much this ...
  2 days ago

• Slave owners in modern times: NCAA

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  I’m having a hard time following the story, but I presume if I go in with the mindset of my subject line, that it follows along those lines?  That is, forget the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, forget the Constitution, simply acknowledge that those in power get to set the rules, and how dare the rest of us ...
  2 days ago

• How the height of the pressbox affects the classification of an airball being a line drive

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  First, I will have to give out my nah-nah-nah, toldyouso.  If BIS and STATS and MLBAM had simply listened to me all those years ago, and simply gave everyone a g-dd-mn stop watch, we wouldn’t be in this predicament.  We don’t need to know if the ball was 2.3 or 2.35 seconds in the air.  I’d be happy if the ...
  2 days ago

• Who is a replacement-level player?

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Cesare (Jet City, Washington) According to Fangraphs, Polanco was worth 50 million over the last three years ... does anyone seriously think their valuations have any basis in reality?Klaw (1:33 PM)My favorite line on those came from a GM: “Their replacement level is, like, me.” Excuse me, mr. GM, if I may be so ...
  2 days ago

• Everything you wanted to know about… (courtesy of Yahoo Sports)

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  FIPBABIPOPS+Basically, Yahoo Sports is giving us a wiki.  Good format.
  4 days ago

• Psst… wanna work as an MLBAM stringer?

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Tell ‘em you heard it from Tango.***MLB.com, the Official Site of Major League Baseball, is seeking stats stringers in these markets for the 2010 season:* Boston* Cincinnati* Cleveland* Detroit* Miami* Milwaukee* TexasStats stringers are responsible for digitally ...
  4 days ago

• Official does not mean correct, when it comes to scorers

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  I love the effort put in here.  When you see such wild inconsistency, with no second-level quality check, what does the data really mean?  Increasing sample size does not reduce bias, if you are aggregating on the thing you suspect bias on.To me, it’s extremely disappointing that the NHL does not care enough about ...
  4 days ago

• What does the Redsox owner know about competitive balance?

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  He said:The World Series should be determined by fully competitive teams on the field - not by how much particular clubs can afford to spend. A better solution is to address competition directly so that clubs can generate revenue more equally as teams become competitive across baseball.... Baseball is also a sport ...
  5 days ago

• WAR, Salary, and Service: Estimating Dollars Per Win

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Sky gives it a go.  I like the overall effort involved.  The main issues I have is that the intercept has to be the league minimum salary.  If it is not, then the WAR model has the wrong replacement-level baseline (for salary purposes).  When under team control: Salary = .51 + WAR*.001When Arb eligible: Salary = ...
  5 days ago

• Scutaro’s 2009 Season Not An Outlier?

  
  Mop Up Duty | Baseball News Sabermetric | Baseball History Bio — Authority: 124
  Almost a month ago TSN’s Daan De Kerpel penned an article on why the Jays shouldn’t re-sign Marco Scutaro .  The crux of the argument is that Scutaro is coming off a career-year (or ‘outlier’ season being the new buzzword thanks to Malcolm Gladwell) and the Jays shouldn’t resign him because he can’t ...
  6 days ago

• Retrosheet: Invalid Pitch Codes - as per Clem Comly validation rules

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  I posted this to the Retro group, but presumably others here may find this interesting.***There’s 553 pitch records that don’t correspond to Clem’s rules, that he noted last year.  I did my best to program those rules, but it’s possible that I either made a mistake, or that I misinterpreted Clem’s rules.If ...
  6 days ago

• Bayes, Marcel, Academics, Phil, back-and-forth discussion… this one has it all!

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  Here’s the article, with 4 back-and-forth commentaries.  I am pleased that Marcel was used as the benchmark, if for no other reason is that it’s so basic and open source that it should be the benchmark.Glove-slap Phil.
  6 days ago

• Fan Forecasts at Fangraphs

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  You guys may remember when I did the Community Forecasts for playing time last year.  Well, David setup something pretty cool over at Fangraphs.As with any of these surveys, having a dozen or three hardcore baseball fans for each team is what’s needed.  My motto is always: “Help me -> help everyone -> help ...
  6 days ago

• Dan Fox’s MITT

  
  THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Authority: 504
  I didn’t see this article from July.  It gives a very high-level view of what Dan is doing with the Pirates. 
  6 days ago

• FanGraphs: Fan Projections

  
  crashburnalley.com — Authority: 125
  Great news, everyone! From FanGraphs:For those of you who have been hanging around FanGraphs since at least last season, you’ll know that we carry various projections in the off-season, which are for the most part generated by computer programs.This off-season, in addition to carrying the various computer generated ...
  6 days ago

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