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Saberthread 4/29

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Harper, Marte, and WAR

Jon Heyman's tweet earlier today sparked a discussion about the reliability of WAR and defensive metrics. We know UZR is unstable early, but is it entirely useless?

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Examining Home Run Apex by Horizontal Angle

What is the average height of each home run hit to each field at each park and how is that affected by the park dimensions?

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Changing Philosophy, Part Four: BIP Data

Before I make the big jump and create my advanced WHB metric, we will look into what WHB data shows us that BIP data cannot.

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Changing run environments within a single season

Looking at outlier months in league average runs-per-game.

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Does Zone% Vary by Batting Order Position?

How much does a batter's position in the order affect the percentage of strikes they see?

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SaberSphere 4/29: Darvish and Replacement Level

Are you ready to find out who may be comparable to Pedro Martinez at this point in the season? How about reading how the unification of replacement level came about between FanGraphs and Baseball Reference?

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St. Louis Cardinals Continue to Win

The Cardinals have a winning record once again. In fact they lead the tough NL Central, but how has Mike Matheny's squad done it?

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Comparing Darvish to a recent great

With Yu Darvish pitching as close to perfect as possible in 2013, the comparisons begin to fly. Who's name has popped up, and are they justified?

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Was Hawk Harrelson Actually Right About Something?

After an indirect feud between Hawk Harrelson and Brian Kenny flared up, Harrelson joined Kenny on his show to discuss the value of sabermetrics. Among the many things Harrelson said, one thing stood out as more correct than I originally believed.

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