November 21, 2009
Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT. Most Recent Comments
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Monday, May 12, 2008Team Defense is Incredibly UnderratedJeff Sullivan and I were looking around Baseball-Reference's team BABIP numbers a bit and, to paraphrase Jeff's words: Part of it has to do with the batted ball profile yielded by the pitching staff, but if the Rays keep up their current pace, their 2008 defense would be 248 plays better than their 2007 defense would be with the same pitching staff. Using Tango's number that 1 extra out ~ 0.8 runs saved, that’s nearly 200 runs, which is about 20 wins given the standard 8-10 runs per win theory. Zambrano the comedianHere is a hilarious video featuring Carlos Zambrano. Be sure to watch it until the end. (Hat tip: Paul DePodesta). What Good and Bad Starts Mean to BattersMGL looks at hitters who have extraordinarily good or bad Aprils and what they end up doing for the rest of the season. It's an interesting phenomenon especially how it dovetails with his look into the same effects for pitchers. St. Louis BatsDave Cameron brings Ryan Ludwick, the unexpected provocateur of helping St. Louis craft a winning team thus far, under the microscope to see if his early season performance is sustainable. Where GMs Come FromBatter's Box goes back and traces the baseball lineage of our current group of General Managers. It is interesting to note just how many personal connections there are across these people. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||