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Career WAR Trifecta Quiz
I'm going to present ten sets of three well-known players who were major leaguers in the retrosheet era. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to identify which player in each set accumul...
Graph of the Day: Knuckleballers
Like many sabermetricians, I have an unhealthy affection for the knuckleball and the pitchers that throw them. Maybe it's because of the way the ball dances toward the plate, or maybe it's because the...
Historical WAR Between Hitters and Pitchers
With Sean Smith releasing historical WAR for pitchers, we can take a look at how they compare with the hitters. Here are the top twenty five players in career WAR, including seasons 1955 and aft...
Graph of the Day: Boggs vs. Brett
Boggs vs. Brett in... Career hitting RAA: +451 vs. +459 Career baserunning RAA: -5 vs. +34 Career fielding RAA: +105 vs. +45 Career position RAA: +4 vs. -53 Career P.T. rep runs: 357 vs....
Graph of the Day: Boggs vs. Gwynn vs. Ripken
Today's GotD is also a link to four more graphs, as part of my article that appeared on The Hardball Times yesterday. I took a look at the careers of Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, and Cal Ripken, J...
Decades of Excellence: Cardinal Center Fielders
The Cardinals have had a legacy of good center fielders over the years - in the 40's it was Terry Moore, in the 60's it was Flood, in the 80's McGee, Ray Lankford in the 90's and for much of our curre...
Graph of the Day: Thomas vs. Griffey
WAR data from Sean's historical WAR database. It's awesome. Each players' seasons sorted from best to worst, left to right.
Graph of the Day: Adam Everett Historical RAR
Yup, just another player with their orange hitting line way at the bottom and their yellow fielding line above their total RAR. In 2008, Everett hit .213/.278/.323 and still finished slightly posi...
Saber-Friendly Blogging 101: Best Position Players In Franchise History
BtB reader and Rangers' fan philkid3 has a cool post up at LSB about the best players in Rangers history (well, since 1955, at least). He included pitchers via a different method, which you can ...
Graph of the Day: Orlando Cabrera Historical RAR
Let's see, -5 to -10 hitter, +10 fielder, shortstop, plays every day every year. 3-4 WAR player for $4MM. Sounds good to me! WAR data from Fangraphs. All data relative to average,...
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