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Sunday, September 05, 2010Bullpen chart - Sept. 5Keep track of the available arms with to the bullpen usage chart. At the end of the post you will find the link to the PDF containing all the match-ups of Sept. 5. The charts show the number of pitches thrown by each team's pitchers each of the last seven days. How to read them: Above the thick line in each chart you see the starters, sorted by their WAR; below the thick line are the relievers, again best to worst according to WAR. Darkest colored cells indicate highest workloads. The probable starting pitchers are listed at the bottom of each chart. You can read about the bullpen usage chart in this introductory article; some tweaks are still needed. Bullpen usage chart - Sept. 5 (PDF ~ 600K) The good face, the halo, and projectabilityNot long ago, Ken Funck got it on, and then went on to earn a spot contributing at Baseball Prospectus due in part to his entry in the "BP Idol Contest" about one of the subjective measures that baseball scouts use. While I'm not going down the same avenue Ken chose, I do find myself interested in the same topic. Like many a young (or not so young, as in my case) baseball blogger, Michael Lewis' Moneyball nudged me toward a more cold and calculating approach to baseball analysis and strategy. With conventional strategy questioned, I started to look at the game of baseball a little differently and felt I could learn a lot more about it than I already knew. Due to that belief, and with sabremetric writings as my bible, my contempt for most sacrifice bunts and intentional walks sprang forth like the Temperance Movement's hatred of alcohol. It's likely that it grew in some part from the statistical approach to baseball glorified in Moneyball. But, one thing that I also took from the book was something the author portrayed in a negative light and that served as the antithesis to statistical analysis. And, even if there wasn't a backdrop of statistical analysis, the absurdity this topic would have still stuck with me. That was 'The Good Face'. Click for more... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||