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About Chris Jaffe

History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the possible exception of every other double life humanly possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. He recently signed a contract with McFarland to write "Evaluating Baseball's Managers" tentatively slated to be done in 2009. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.


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Chris Jaffe's Articles

2008

Book Review: The 1973 Story

May 12, 2008
A review of Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty, and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever by John Rosengren.

How Soon is Now?

May 05, 2008
What does the Cards' hot April start tell us about how they'll play the rest of the season?

Franchise Managerial Hiring Tendencies

April 28, 2008
Certain teams like going after particular types of managers. A look at the half-dozen teams with the most striking hiring tendencies.

Joe Posnanski Interview

April 21, 2008
THT sits down with the statworld's favorite mainstream writer.

Cubdom’s great lost opportunity

April 14, 2008
One of the Cubs' best chances since 1908 to win it all may have come in 1964, when they were 76-86, 17 games out of first.

Book Review: Big Book of Baseball Legends

April 07, 2008
A review of a special installment of Mythbusters, featuring Rob Neyer.

Baseball’s strangest and most amazing team pitching splits: 1957-2007

March 31, 2008
Plus a pair of hitting ones for good measure as well.

Five Questions: Milwaukee Brewers

March 10, 2008
A look into the crystal ball to see what 2008 holds for the Brew Crew

2007’s Most Historic and Impressive Team Splits

March 03, 2008
Having downloaded nearly 150 team splits for every squad since 1957, Chris clues us in on which teams' hitting and pitching achievements from last year were the most amazing.

Homer tracker

February 25, 2008
A look at which players and teams should see the biggest changes to their power numbers, based on the info at Greg Rybarczyk’s Hit Tracker website.

The Gods and Dogs of Garbage Time

February 18, 2008
Traditionally, when people talk about who is a choker and who is clutch, they point to how they hit in clutch situation. Let's flip it around and look at who is at his best when it matters least.

Bill James Interview

February 04, 2008
He's got a new book coming out. And a new website. So behold THT's interview with baseball's bearded wizard.

The 10 greatest Game Sevens in World Series history

January 21, 2008
Chris completes his World Series journey with an examination of the ultimate ultimates.

Pete Palmer interview

January 14, 2008
A chance to pick the brain of one of the godfathers of sabermetrics.

Tomorrow’s Cooperstown election results today

January 07, 2008
Well, no, not really. But, if you track 10 basic trends for BBWAA voting, you can essentially figure out how tomorrow's announcement will go before it happens.

Ten best World Series Game Sixes ever

January 04, 2008
It turns out a lot of your finest Game Sixes occur when the team that's down three game to two wins. Makes sense if you think about it.

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