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Trades, Free Agents, and Rule 5 Selections in Franchise History
Alex Anthopolous recently re-stated that, while he is exploring all possible free agents, he would "exhaust [all possible trades] first before delving into free agency." It appears that Anthopolous' mantra is to focus on trades rather than free agency to improve the Blue Jays. As a prelude to the...
Graphaholic: Mets Manager Winning Percentages
The Mets have had nineteen managers in their 48 year history, from Casey Stengel, who helmed the incipient mess of the early sixties, to Jerry Manuel, who gangsta-fies the current bloated injury-fest. Davey Johnson has managed the most games (1012); Mike Cubbage has managed the fewest (7). Two have...
Mets Starting Pitcher tRA+
An explanation of tRA+ can be found at StatCorner. Short version for lazies: It considers what the pitcher actually did -- not just what earned runs he happened to allow -- adjusted for defense and park and expressed relative to the league (100 = average). This can't really surprise anyone given...
ISO Scatter Plots
A post today on a couple of things I've been wondering about. Conventional baseball wisdom tells us that the more power a hitter has, the less strikes he'll see. The idea goes that pitchers will be afraid to challenge a highly skilled power hitter and thus, will be more likely to throw balls or...
Jose Reyes Gets Picked Off
(click to embiggen) The x-axis represents minimum stolen base seasons for individual players. For example, '0' includes every player season ever, '10' includes every player season with at least ten stolen bases, etc. The y-axis represents the frequency of pickoff, which is just...
Glavine Returns (Again) to Atlanta
The Atlanta Braves have come to terms with 43-year-old LHP Tom Glavine this morning on a 1-year, $1M contract with an additional $3.5M in incentives. Glavine, a staple of the dominant 90's Braves rotation, returned to Atlanta in 2008 after pitching for 5 seasons in New York with the Mets. His...
Reader Contest: Make Your Own Graph
Update: Now with real prizes! See below. Over the past month, BtB's fallen in love with graphs. Chris designed a great one for historical player value, jhmoore started the binomial craze, and iamawesomer's been filling the FanShots with those made by others. Now it's your turn. Show us your...
Undervalued Free Agents: Craig Counsell
With the news coming out that Troy Glaus could miss up to the first 5-weeks of the upcoming season while he recovers from shoulder surgery, the Cardinals are looking for third base solutions. This morning, Ken Rosenthal has a blurb that the Cards might be interested in Craig Counsell to serve as...
Barry Zito Was Not a Good Free-Agent Signing
In honor of the AL Cy Young Award winner – Cliff Lee – I thought I’d create a little graph: Oh, that tantalizing question mark. You can see that the trend – a trend that’s completely impervious to sample-size challenges or any other brand of cynicism –...
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