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The 2009 Diamondbacks Season, Part VI: Defense

Few losses were more spectacularly painful for the 2009 Diamondbacks than the one which we endured in Seattle on June 21st. With the game tied in the bottom of the ninth, Clay Zavada loaded the bases ...

Alex Cora To Return In 2010? Say It Ain't So Adam Rubin

In a recap of last night's game, Adam Rubin inserted a couple blurbs about the Mets' backup middle infield situation next season: [Anderson] Hernandez has demonstrated he doesn’t have the aptit...

Graph of the Day: UZR's Error Component and Unearned Runs

Continuing with the theme this week of defensive metrics their interpretations, today's graph examines the ErrR, or Error Runs, component of UZR on a team level.  We should expect a team's unearn...

Graph of the Day: Range Factor

Yesterday, I posted a graph that showed quite conclusively that Fielding Percentage is a meaningless statistic when talking about defensive impact on runs allowed.  As commenter CoachOfEarl broug...

Graph of the Day: The Nate McLouth Factor

EDIT: Thanks for BobbyMac in the comments for pointing out a flaw in my data.  It's not quite as much fun as the original results, but it's still pretty conclusive.  Expect a couple more gra...

Paul Konerko, White Sox Let One Roll Away

It was the type of thing that only seems to happen in Minnesota. In an inning that only seemed to last about 5 minutes, the White Sox had 3 errors, a passed ball and allowed one bizarre (though not do...

Friday Rockpile: Rockies return to Denver for much needed 10-game homestand

Rox have comfortable schedule coming | ColoradoRockies.com: NewsThe Rockies return to Coors Field for some extended playing time. Tracy's demeanor key to Rockies' turnaround - The Denver PostLook at t...

Graph of the Day: UZR Comparisons for 2008 NL Playoff Teams

Here is a quick look at the last season's four NL playoff teams comparing their UZR numbers.  First here are the team totals: <!-...

Gordon Beckham Will Be Fine, Thank You

I've been meaning to write about our boy, the White Sox savior, Gordon Beckham for some time now but have been waiting to see more at-bats to log my opinion. More than anything I wanted to address the...

Is Adam Dunn the New Jeter? Or, is Leadership Inversely Proportional to Defense?

Well, the torch has been passed. After years of being lamented by the evil ol' mainstream media (and predictably celebrated by the self-styled Noam Chomskys of baseball, the bloggers) for his strikeou...


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