Saturday, October 4th, 2008
52 Awesome Predictions for the 2008 Baseball Season Revisited
On February 14, I babeled on about 52 predictions for the 2008 baseball season. I was feeling saucy that day, and figured a semi-serious meets quarter-assed approach to prognosticating was the way to go. With the 2008 regular season fading in the rear-view, and the bright October lights of New York dim for the first [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
New York Yankees Must Consider Jason Giambi for 2009
What? He can’t be serious?
Jason Giambi, the $22 million albatross, is in the final year of his monstrous contract that he signed prior to the 2002 season. This binding agreement inauspiciously marked the beginning of a trend of obnoxious spending by the New York Yankees, who insisted on paying aging superstars for their past performance [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Derek Jeter’s Disappearing Defense
Was it ever there to begin with?
This is somewhat irritating, at least to me Mr. Obsessive Baseball Guy, who is known to punch walls when the Yankees lose - in Spring Training. Recently, a study was conducted at the esteemed University of Pennsylvania confirming what other number gurus and zone rating aficionados have purported for [...]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
52 Awesome Predictions for the 2008 Baseball Season
1. Manny Ramirez cuts off a lock of hair, places it in his suitcase, and gets arrested for possession of a controlled substance before boarding a chartered flight.
2. Bud Selig finally takes some blame for overseeing a rule-breaking, unscrupulous system, instead of taking credit for Baseball’s most prosperous - yet scandalous era. I really cannot [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
VORP: Number Crunching and Baseball Voodoo
First invented by Keith Woolner, Baseball Prospectus defines VORP (Value Over Replacement Player) as the following:
The number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level player at the same position would contribute if given the same percentage of team plate appearances. VORP scores do not consider the quality of a player’s defense.
Sorting out the Mess
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