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Bullpen Chaining and Reliever WAR
Sub-title: Another reason closers are overpaid. Sean Smith recently released historical WAR data for pitchers. There are two major pieces of his methodology that are interesting and different f...
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: 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.
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 ...
Position Adjustments Across the Decades
Sean Smith penned a neat article at Fangraphs yesterday, addressing the topic of historical defense-based positional adjustments. He used TotalZone, his own fielding metric based on quasi-play-b...
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