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White Sox notes from The Bill James Handbook 2011
Carrying an annual tradition from Sox Machine on over to the new digs, it's about time I thumb through the new Bill James Handbook and relay a few of the Sox-related items found along the way. It's a month later than usual, but the Sox had to go ahead and sign Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko and Jesse...
Do You Play or Watch Poker On TV? If So, Bob Costas Hates You
"The Future of Sports" at Washington University It was Monday afternoon. I had just checked South Side Sox for the first time that day, and read Cheat's post about stepping down. Smelling the blood in the water, I ran out to the car and started driving to St. Louis. The plan was desperate, but if...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Four
If Chris Young is indeed signed, the Mets would be represented by five of the eight Ivy League schools: Harvard -- Sandy Alderson, Paul DePodesta Dartmouth -- Sandy Alderson Princeton -- Chris Young Columbia -- Gary Cohen Yale -- Ron Darling To carry the flag for Penn, Mark DeRosa or the retired...
BCB Interview: Bill James
I'm sure I don't have to introduce Bill James to this audience. However, if you don't know who Bill is, he's the baseball analyst generally acknowledged to have invented sabermetrics. His books helped revolutionize the view of statistical analysis of baseball in the 1980's. I had the opportunity...
Ozzie Guillen Is Becoming Less Extreme
Last off-season, prompted by a game in which I perceived the outcome to be effected by Ozzie Guillen's quick hook, I examined the evolution of Guillen's hook. I thought about taking it a step further in the dead time around Christmas again, but in flipping through the 2010 Bill James Handbook, I...
Gaslamp Book Club: The Bill James Handbook 2010
I've always liked big baseball books, or at least, I've liked the idea of big baseball books. Tomes of base-ball knowledge! Take this scene from a little known film about baseball: Now, while you may have been paying attention to the moving monologue performed by Sir James Earl Jones, I was...
2010 Bill James Projections: White Sox Pitchers
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> W-L G GS SVIP H HR BB K ERA WHIP Mark Buehrle 12-12 33 33 0 216 232 25 48 122 3.96 1.30 D.J. Carrasco 4-6 44 0 0 90 103 8 36 59 4.90 1.54 John Danks 11-12 33 33 0 206 209 29 75 168 4.33 1.38 Octavio Dotel 4-3 57 0 0 64 53 9 28 80 3.66 1.27 Gavin...
2010 Bill James Projections: White Sox Hitters
The good people at ACTA Sports provided me a sneak preview at the 2010 Bill James projections, which will be made available the public the the 2010 Bill James Handbook (available next week). James tends to have the most optimistic projections of any of the major forecasters, specifically for young...
Monday Rockpile: Projecting pitchers, Bill James-style
Not much news on the Rockies out there. If you're an Indians fan, you can discuss hiring Manny Acta as manager. Or if you're a Cardinals fan, there's a rumor going around that Mark McGwire will be the new hitting coach for the team. Seems it isn't a rumor anymore. That's ripe for discussion. But...
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