dave cameron Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Ufa Wins Series Opener, Lulea Bounces to a Two Game Lead
Kontinental Hockey League (Russia) Salavat Yulaev Ufa 4, Metallurg Magnitogorsk 3: Igor Grigorenko and Patrick Thoreson had a goal and an assist each as Ufa takes the early lead in the KHL's Eastern Conference Final. Metallurg stayed in the game with three power play goals, with Sergei Fedorov...
February Hodgepodge - Reporting Early, Cain and xFIP, Sternberg As Owner, Bullpen Coach Jon Debus
AKA thoughts on topics unworthy of separate posts. 1. I'm really trying to avoid pulling an Andy Rooney in this space but sometimes it's warranted. Every other post this week by various Mets blogs in my Google Reader had a similar theme -- "Why hasn't [lightning rod player] showed up early to...
Antonetti on Antonetti
The torch was officially passed yesterday, as Mark Shapiro took over as club president, handing the reigns of baseball operations over to his longtime assistant and "co-GM," Chris Antonetti. The Indians haven't looked outside the organization for a new GM in over 20 years. Hank Peters hired and...
Don't Criticize Omar For The Sake Of Criticizing
Putting down Omar Minaya no matter what he does is fashionable these days, and I can't say I haven't taken part. "The Contest" between Omar and inept Royals GM Dayton Moore was proposed by Fangraphs writer Matt Klaassen (AKA devil_fingers) and has achieved some notoriety in the largely irrelevant...
How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGraphs. For those who don't understand what WAR is or how it is calculated, here's a crash course from...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Position Players)
In this new series of Purple Row Academy, I will step on the toes of both RMN and TOGB somewhat--in examining the concept of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)--also called Win Value--in detail, with a historical context slanted toward the best Rockies players as ranked by career WAR in future...
Dollars and Sense Part Seven: Dollar Win Values
In this fashionably late edition of Purple Row Academy, I shift gears from Positional Payroll Distribution to an examination of the Rockies' historical Win Value data, courtesy of Fangraphs, compared to both the Rockies' marginal wins over that period and their ODPs. This session is, (for now, at...
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