November 23, 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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HR/FB Park Factors (8) Why Baseball Needs a Visual Facelift (5) Building a Retrosheet database, the short form (4) Is peak at age 29? (7) 
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Friday, August 28, 2009A tale of two seasonsThere was a recent thread on The Book blog about how to tell if a pitcher is any good. I recommend reading it if you haven't already seen it. There isn't anything groundbreaking, but the basic idea is that MGL goes through how uncertain the process really is, which plenty of people don't seem to realize. Could we tell if John Smoltz was actually finished after his 40 innings with the Red Sox earlier this season? Red Sox Nation said he was, Nick Steiner, among others, said he wasn't. Here's the early returns: Stat nerds 1, RSN 0. But my point here is not to talk about John Smoltz. My purpose here today is to talk about the two batting lines posted below the jump. Both are from exactly 50 games, but I extrapolated each one out to 150 games just so you can get a better feel for what all these numbers mean over a full season. Click for more... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||