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NATE SILVER HAS BECOME A VERB.
NATE SILVER HAS BECOME A VERB. Nick and I used to look at Nate Silver’s PECOTA projections in Baseball Prospectus when we were making decisions about fantasy baseball players. Now, here is an article by Stephen Galloway in the Hollywood … Continue reading
LEFTY GOMEZ’S CHRISTMAS TREE STORY.
LEFTY GOMEZ’S CHRISTMAS TREE STORY. I posted here about our family’s struggles with putting our Christmas tree, including how we discovered that Christmas trees shrink, and I posted here about LEFTY, the biography of Lefty Gomez by Vernona Gomez and … Continue reading
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PRECISE DATA FOR A SINGLE PITCH.
PRECISE DATA FOR A SINGLE PITCH. Alan Nathan’s analysis of the physics of a single pitch and line drive builds on an amazing amount of data that is now available for baseball games. Nathan knows that on the pitch that … Continue reading
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RARE EVENTS—HITTING A BASEBALL THREE TIMES WITH ONE SWING.
RARE EVENTS—HITTING A BASEBALL THREE TIMES WITH ONE SWING. Matt Adams of the Southside Showdown blog called Nick’s attention to this post at the Physics of Baseball blog explaining what seems to me the most remarkable play of the 2012 … Continue reading
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ANOTHER LANDMARK EVENT.
ANOTHER LANDMARK EVENT. Early in the discussion of whether Mike Trout or Miguel Cabrera should be the American League MVP, I e mailed Nick that his arguments had changed my mind and I had switched my vote from Cabrera to … Continue reading
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WHAT MAKES FOR AN MVP?
WHAT MAKES FOR AN MVP? There are no criteria for determining an MVP. This makes for a lot of room for argument—desirable for sportswriters and also for fans. (A similar situation exists with voting for the all star game—is it … Continue reading
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TRADITION OVER SABERMETRICS—CABRERA WINS MVP.
TRADITION OVER SABERMETRICS—CABRERA WINS MVP. Dick Weisfelder asked in a comment on October 3: “Cabrera or Trout?” The question has been debated by sports fans and sportswriters over the last 6 weeks and has come to represent the divide between … Continue reading
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MY IDEAL DEBATE—TALKING HEADS.
MY IDEAL DEBATE—TALKING HEADS. An important objection to my Ideal Debate is that it is less exciting than a debate with interruptions and movement. Many people have said that they liked the last two debates because they found them exciting. … Continue reading
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MARCO SCUTARO THE HITTER.
MARCO SCUTARO THE HITTER. Marco Scutaro is the second baseman who was injured. Before the baseball season began in 2009, I posted here about “The Importance of Marco Scutaro”. The post was about how some baseball teams were recognizing the … Continue reading
INJURIES AT SECOND BASE.
INJURIES AT SECOND BASE. Less than a week ago, Buddy Van Alstyne was commenting on my post advocating a rule change to provide that when a baserunner is trying to break up a double play, it would be an automatic … Continue reading
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