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Historical WAR Review: Catchers
Preamble Rally just completed the Herculean task of estimating WAR season totals for every player in major league baseball, 1871 onward. I don't think it can be understated what an accomplishmen...
Graph of the Day: Frank "Home Run" Baker and Production in the Dead Ball Era
The 1910s were certainly a much different era of baseball than the one we're currently experiencing. Nobody accuses anybody of using steroids. .400 seasons are relatively common. The...
Graph of the Afternoon: Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, Aaron, Musial
I'm very, very excited by what we can do now with Sean Smith's updated WAR database. The top 300 player index hasn't been updated yet, but I don't need the index to know who 5 of the best player...
Graph of the Day: David Wells vs. Mariano Rivera
I read this story on MLB Trade Rumors earlier today, and was very intrigued. Here's a snippet - Former Yankees GM Gene Michael told John Harper of the New York Daily News that he cons...
Great Explanations of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)
If you're someone who wants to know what the heck WAR is, how it's calculated, and why you'd use it, check out these two primers by BtB reader Jabberwocky. I highly recommend them. Hitters Pitch...
Analyzing Market Inefficiencies: Players Below Replacement Level
Sky's Note: I'm psyched to introduce another new BtB writer, Jack Moore. He's a Brewers fan, but we'll deal with that if he continues to write awesome articles like this one and the one below. B...
Accumulated Negative Team WAR
Or, What the Reds are to pitching, the Royals are to hitting. Our own erik has been writing about how teams have done in various drafts with their first round picks, and in several cases the...
The Sheff Stops Cooking
Today the Tigers released 40-year-old OF/DH, Gary Sheffield. Sheffield, who is only 1 HR shy of 500 career HR's, has had a career with bumps and bruises along the way -- but also with some amazing pro...
All WAR Team
The leaders at each position according to Rally's Historical WAR database. I went with the best player who played a plurality of games at a given position, not necessarily the player with the most ...
How Many Seasons Would it Take?
To match Barry Bonds' career Wins Above Replacement value? Thanks to new Historical WAR Data -- courtesy of BaseballProjection.com -- we can see how many wins above replacement-level a player contribu...
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