Archive for the 'Stats' Category

Award season is coming, and Brian Matusz, Jesus Montero, Desmond Jennings, Jason Heyward, and Madison Bumgarner are making their case for Minor League Player of the Year

A closer look at how regression to the mean affects players at the extremes.

Sean’s looks at Ichiro’s qualifications.

Get up-to-date average year and prime year projections for five former top pitching prospects.

What does it mean to know how good a player really is? Or, how likely is Ichiro to get a hit in his next at-bat?

Regression to the mean: good for groups, but it can’t tell the future. A graphical analysis.

Trying to make sense out of the Dominican Summer League

Does it help us predict future performance?

Why we should be spending less time arguing about BABIP, and more time looking at how to convert DIPS theory into runs.