Consistency as a Career Attribute: Hitter Volatility Part VII
Bill Petti | Volatility may not correlate year-to-year, but if we look at multiple seasons there are clearly more and less consistent hitters in the majors.
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Hitter Volatility Part VI: Getting it Right is More Important than Being Right
Bill Petti | Hitter Volatility Part VI: Getting it Right is More Important than Being Right.
Is Volatility an Attribute? Player Volatility Part IV
Bill Petti | In part IV of this series, I take a look at whether batter's volatility is an attribue (i.e. consistent year to year) or whether it's just a function of randomness.
Player Volatility Part III: There's Something Happening Here...
In part two of my series on volatility I looked to see whether David Wright's perceived volatility in 2010 was simply the function of having a down year. I compared Wright's volatility to two...
Longoria, Rolen, and Wright: Player Volatility Part II
In my first column on player volatility I took a look at David Wright's in-season performance over time. The idea was to begin (and I stress begin) teasing out this idea of how an individual...
Player Volatility: The Case of David Wright
As someone who follows the Mets closely I've heard quite a lot over the years about how David Wright is a streaky hitter. This term gets tossed around routinely in baseball circles. There has...
