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General Articles


Following are the one hundred most recent articles for the category General .

05/16/2008: Discussing the other (phonetically) type of Pujols…

by John Brattain

05/15/2008: Hit ‘em where they ain’t—if you can

by John Walsh

05/15/2008: Book Review: The 33-Year-Old Rookie

by Geoff Young

05/14/2008: Walking into disaster

by John Brattain

05/13/2008: Is Clayton Kershaw worth the hype?

by Alex Eisenberg

05/07/2008: Bringing up Junior

by John Brattain

05/01/2008: Yep, 14 pitchers

by Jeff Sackmann

04/30/2008: John Gibbons must go…

by John Brattain

04/25/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 16

by John Brattain

04/24/2008: The future of Yovani Gallardo

by Alex Eisenberg

04/23/2008: Frank Thomas’ release could lay a “Big Hurt” on MLB…

by John Brattain

04/22/2008: Anatomy of the A’s

by Jeff Sackmann

04/18/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 15

by John Brattain

04/17/2008: The benefit of batting eighth

by Jeff Sackmann

04/17/2008: April ciphers

by Brandon Isleib

04/16/2008: Big changes? Big deal!

by John Brattain

04/10/2008: Hitting prospects to watch in 2008

by Alex Eisenberg

04/09/2008: See windmill … tilt at windmill … rinse, lather, repeat

by John Brattain

04/09/2008: Scouting the scouts

by Jeff Sackmann

04/07/2008: Book Review: Big Book of Baseball Legends

by Chris Jaffe

04/04/2008: The Pujols Awards: Weeks 12 & 13

by John Brattain

04/03/2008: Pitching prospects to watch in 2008

by Alex Eisenberg

04/02/2008: Those who do not learn from history…

by John Brattain

03/27/2008: Ten Things I Didn’t Know a while ago

by Dave Studeman

03/21/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 11

by John Brattain

03/17/2008: Five Questions: The Philadelphia Phillies

by John Brattain

03/14/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 10

by John Brattain

03/12/2008: These Numbers are Disconnected

by John Brattain

03/07/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 9

by John Brattain

03/06/2008: Nine story lines for 2008

by Geoff Young

03/05/2008: The Loria and short of it…

by John Brattain

03/04/2008: Who should sign Barry Bonds?

by Jeff Sackmann

02/29/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 8

by John Brattain

02/28/2008: Education of a pitcher

by Jeff Sackmann

02/27/2008: If you wish to bury Bonds…

by John Brattain

02/26/2008: Searching for the game’s best pitch

by John Walsh

02/22/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 7

by John Brattain

02/20/2008: MLBPA Snafu

by John Brattain

02/15/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 6

by John Brattain

02/13/2008: Who wants to subsidize a billionaire?

by John Brattain

02/08/2008: It’s the Hardball Times Season Preview 2008!

by David Gassko

02/08/2008: The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008: A sample chapter

by David Gassko

02/08/2008: Ten things I learned from The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008

by David Gassko

02/08/2008: Our snarling Clemens time

by John Brattain

02/06/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 5

by John Brattain

02/01/2008: Grumpy Old Men revisited

by John Brattain

01/30/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 4

by John Brattain

01/28/2008: You, too, can be a scout

by John Walsh

01/23/2008: The Pujols Awards: Week 3

by John Brattain

01/18/2008: Grumpy old men

by John Brattain

01/16/2008: The Pujols Award: Week 2

by John Brattain

01/11/2008: Striped delight

by John Brattain

01/09/2008: The Pujols Awards: week one

by John Brattain

01/07/2008: Tomorrow’s Cooperstown election results today

by Chris Jaffe

01/04/2008: Exorcising the ghosts of 2007…

by John Brattain

12/28/2007: Buck Weaver lives!

by John Brattain

12/21/2007: Idiology

by John Brattain

12/14/2007: Gutted Fish

by John Brattain

12/07/2007: Does VC stand for ‘Validating Cronyism’?

by John Brattain

11/30/2007: Cooperstown needs a piece of “The Rock”

by John Brattain

11/26/2007: Alex Rodriguez opts for free agency…

by John Brattain

11/16/2007: The 300 Club

by John Brattain

11/15/2007: The advantage of batting left-handed

by John Walsh

11/14/2007: Who got what they wished for in 2007?

by Geoff Young

11/09/2007: Getting hormonal

by John Brattain

11/02/2007: Battling Boras

by John Brattain

10/26/2007: Ghosts of World Series past

by John Brattain

10/24/2007: Can the 1986 Brewers be salvaged?

by Jeff Sackmann

10/22/2007: Rob Neyer Interview

by Chris Jaffe

10/22/2007: The Youth of America

by Dave Studeman

10/19/2007: Sorting through the sewage

by John Brattain

10/17/2007: Exodus in the Bronx?

by Jeff Sackmann

10/12/2007: Baseball’s greatest matador

by John Brattain

10/11/2007: Should the Brewers exercise Jenkins’s option?

by Jeff Sackmann

10/05/2007: Voteless wonders

by Jeff Sackmann

10/05/2007: Will Bonds be Barried in 2008?

by John Brattain

10/01/2007: Is LaRussa right to bat his pitcher in the eight slot?

by John Beamer

09/28/2007: A September to remember

by John Brattain

09/21/2007: Is it a eulogy? Epilogue? Pathetic whining?

by John Brattain

09/17/2007: Outsmarting Pythagoras

by Sal Baxamusa

09/14/2007: Is this for real?

by John Brattain

09/07/2007: Scream of consciousness

by John Brattain

09/04/2007: First impressions: Buchholz vs. Kennedy

by Carlos Gomez

09/04/2007: Squaring it up

by John Walsh

08/31/2007: Stockholm syndrome

by John Brattain

08/30/2007: Jake Peavy’s max effort mechanics

by Carlos Gomez

08/27/2007: Are umpires racist?

by John Beamer

08/24/2007: Other than a rousing game of limbo…

by John Brattain

08/23/2007: The DRAFTYs: The 2007 MLB draft awards

by Carlos Gomez

08/20/2007: Who is/was better: Pedro Martinez or Johan Santana?

by John Beamer

08/15/2007: Chamberlain or Hughes: Who’s got better mechanics?

by Carlos Gomez

08/15/2007: Triple-A pitchers, under the microscope

by Jeff Sackmann

08/10/2007: Road kill

by John Brattain

08/08/2007: Triple-A, one pitch at a time

by Jeff Sackmann

08/06/2007: Sean Forman interview

by Chris Jaffe

08/03/2007: A-Rod traded to Blue Jays for Marcum and McGowan…

by John Brattain

08/02/2007: The four greatest home run hitters of all-time: a video analysis of their swings

by Carlos Gomez

08/01/2007: Deadline draft picks

by Jeff Sackmann

07/30/2007: SABR37 recap

by Chris Jaffe

07/27/2007: Discount da ringzzzz

by John Brattain

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May 05, 2008

WPA at the movies

I've used Win Probability Added for many situations, but never a movie. These guys have: the WPA analysis and graph of the big game from the classic movie Major League.
Posted by: Dave Studeman


April 27, 2008

Report from China

Ryan, one of THT's loyal readers, attended a China Baseball League game in Shanghai yesterday. His report follows...
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Posted by: Dave Studeman


April 22, 2008

Frank Thomas or Carlos Delgado?

I've been developing ideas for my column this week, but David Cameron just took one of them. This business is getting harder every day!
Posted by: Dave Studeman


April 17, 2008

I Love the World

Okay, this has nothing to do with baseball, but this awesome commercial for the Discovery channel gives me the chills.
Posted by: Dave Studeman


April 10, 2008

Star Trek sabermetrics

This has nothing to do with baseball, but I just love this post exploring the "common wisdom" that red-shirt Enterprise crew members are most likely to die. The surprising finding? Red-shirt crew members are much less likely to die if Kirk "meets" a woman.

If this guy were a baseball fan, he'd be a true sabermetrician.
Posted by: Dave Studeman


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