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A New Era: Giants Extend Freddy Sanchez
I know there's a World Series going on and everything, but isn't anyone going to talk about the bigger news? That's right: Freddy Sanchez re-signed with the Giants for 2 years, $12 million, replacing ...
World Series Batting Order Optimizer: Philadelpha Phillies
Game One of the 2009 World Series ended with the Phillies (mainly Cliff Le) dominating the Yankees in a complete game. The batting order for the Yankees didn't quite match what I recommended for them ...
World Series Batting Order Optimizer: New York Yankees
So there's a big game tonight. CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee are facing off in a matchup destined to stab Cleveland fans in the fork with an eye for ages to come. And it's also a chance for me to write ab...
Jason Bay vs. Matt Holliday, Bill James vs. devil_fingers: Free Agent Projection Showdown
Yes, it's that time of year... projections are already coming out. Dan Szymborski from Baseball Think Factory has already published his ZiPS projections for a few teams, and I may (or may not) do some...
2009 Catcher Defense: Filling in the Holes (yet again)
Even if you aren't a FanGraphs junkie like myself and so many others, if you spend any time there looking at the WAR rankings in order to, say, evaluate who should be the 2009 MVP candidates, you've u...
Jason Bartlett, for Real?
That Delmon Young and Brendan Harris for Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett (and some other stuff) trade between the Twins and Rays looks better all the time, doesn't it? The big pieces in the trade at the...
Lousy Lineup Optimizer: San Francisco Giants
The eight of you who are familiar with this series will remember that "Lousy" in the title does not necessarily refer to the lineup, but perhaps to the optimization procedure, or, as the "Optimizer" (...
Celebrating Adequacy: The 11 Average-est Position Players in Baseball at the Moment
You know the drill with baseball bloggers: we like to talk about players who are either really, really good, or (and perhaps preferably -- overall, we're pretty misanthropic) really, really bad. ...
Return of the Son of the Revisitation of the Myth of the RBI Guy: Careers Overrated by RBI Totals
Okay, okay, you probably figured we were done with this. And we are. Really. After this. To recap: First, taking a clue from a piece by Jonah Keri, I looked at the most overrated individual seasons si...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy (Revisited), Part Two: Situational Hitting and RE24
In last week's post on the Myth of the RBI Guy, I used a crude method inspired by Jonah Keri's piece in Baseball Between the Numbers to generate groups of individual seasons by players since 1...
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