Sunday, February 24, 2013

2013 World Yakyu Classic

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The World Baseball Classic invokes a number of reactions from baseball fans. Many (particularly in the United States) are indifferent. Som...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Omar y Amigos

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Back in the mid-90s, the Indians radio network carried a pregame feature before Sunday afternoon games called "Kenny's Kids". ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Returning Starters (and Success?)

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2013 will mark Greg Beals’ third season at the helm of the OSU baseball program, and it promises to be an important season for the program. ...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

MLB Has Lost Control of the Game

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Many years ago, the powers that be in baseball sat down and drew up a set of rules to govern the game. These rules applied to the game on t...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Meanderings

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* I don’t have anything of substance to add on the deaths of Earl Weaver and Stan Musial, but since both were favorites of mine I feel compe...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Crude Team Ratings, 2012

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For the last few years I have published a set of team ratings that I call “Crude Team Ratings”. The name was chosen to reflect the nature o...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Run Distribution and W%, 2012

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A couple of caveats apply to everything that follows in this post. The first is that there are no park adjustments anywhere. There's obv...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Crude NFL Ratings, 2012

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Since I have a ranking system for teams and am somewhat interested in the NFL, I don’t see any reason not to take a once a year detour into...