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The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!
An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
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March, 2008

31 Hardball Times OF Arms

31 Jack Cust, Quadruple A hitter?

31 60 Minutes Piece on Bill James

28 How much to pay a manager?

28 Draft Class 2005

28 Swingmen PITCHf/x

28 Blackjack

28 Being a sabermetrician

28 Team-specific PITCHf/x

28 True HR Park Factors (or at least something we can regress towards)

27 Fantasy Dollars, 2008

27 Criss-cross applesauce

26 Pre-Eulogy to now-ex HOF head Dale Petroskey

25 Better Batter Baseball

25 The next 5 years

25 Jake Peavy

24 Padres preview book

23 Scouting

22 The Great Clutch Project

21 2007 NL MVP

20 Baseball Reference boarding the Leverage and WPA train

19 MLB, stipends, Japan, boycotts

19 Bonds is a b!tch?

19 When Lawyers rule MLB…

18 Yappin’ Jim Cramer’s Forecast: Bear Stearns is Fine!

17 Where did FIP come from?

17 New-age FIP

17 Soccer shenanigans

14 Catcher Blocks

14 Brian Bannister was wrong, we need to get back to our basements, according to Bob Costas

14 How many bases can you steal, if the pitcher pitches from the windup?

13 Scouts’ Favorite Players

13 The Traveling Typo Guy

13 Release points

13 Mom, leaves baby in parked car, arrested by police, who leave her other kids in a parking lot

13 Rob Neyer’s Tracker

13 The A’s never swing on 3-0?

13 Fangraphs keeps on rolling the new stats

12 Impact of Temperature

11 The Old Diamond-Mind

11 Forecasting Standings

11 Governor…

11 Very cool gizmo!

10 Zimmer v Girardi: Crossing the line

08 DIPS, Regressing Sample Stats, and Projecting Players

08 Baseball’s version of American Idol

08 Primer on Small Sample Size effects

07 Preview Books

07 All-you-can-eat ballparks

07 Wall Street Journal: Wisdom of the Crowds

07 PITCHf/x Drag and Lift

07 Free agent salaries and pitcher roles

06 Time: Bill James

06 Peer to Peer Lending: good idea?

06 The cost of high pitches at a young age

06 Bill James’ New Book, “The Bill James Gold Mine 2008” (edited)

05 Clutch Pitching

05 Shame on the scout?

05 What changes you would like to see in MLB?

04 Where to bat Soriano?

04 Community Forecast, 2007 - Preliminary Results

03 Straight poop on OF fielding

02 Are Consistent Batters Easier to Project than Inconsistent Ones?

01 More Pitch f/x Data

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