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2009

August, 2009

• 31 Bunting and game theory (this is really interesting stuff)

• 31 A quiz for managers and GM’s…

• 31 Garret Anderson is league average?

• 31 Zimbalist v Birnbaum

• 31 Where are the fans for: Marlins, Astros, Pirates and Rockies?

• 31 ceteris paribus

• 30 Is Jeff Suppan the worst veteran pitcher that you never hear about?

• 30 Is the fantasy baseball snake-draft fair?

• 28 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

• 28 Odd lineup of the day

• 28 MySQL views are terrible

• 28 Identity crisis at 40 innings

• 27 How many runs can this lineup score (in a game)?

• 27 Reader post of the day: 4- or 5- man rotation?

• 27 Cole Hamels’ BABIP

• 27 Why might Marcel suck this year?

• 27 How to interview a ballplayer

• 27 HITf/x: distance from home plate when bat meets ball

• 27 Does it make any sense for a batter to feign a bunt attempt early in the count…

• 26 Forecasters Challenge 2009 - UPDATE!

• 26 Scoop Rates

• 26 How should a late-season callup show his stuff?

• 26 Judge Kosinksi

• 26 CALL TV

• 26 The Montreal Expos of the NHL

• 26 Poz’s new book

• 26 “Never bunt”

• 25 New baseball rule: changing the structure of the batting order?

• 25 Hitter’s BABIP

• 25 Reader post of the day: PITCHf/x

• 25 Out for being out of the batter’s box?

• 25 “My Personal Path to Sabermetrics”

• 25 Off the scrap heap, and contributing at the MLB level

• 24 Is elevating a starting pitcher’s pitch count a GOOD thing?

• 24 The 2009 Fans Scouting Report - Balloting now open

• 24 The Last Iconic Baseball Card

• 24 Pssst… Wanna Meet Neal Huntington and Dan Fox?

• 24 NHL jerseys ranked

• 24 The “blip” factor in measuring fielding

• 24 Will the real John Smoltz please stand up

• 23 Social Security redux

• 23 How can we tell if a pitcher is any good?

• 22 Who would you rather have on your team for the next 3 years?

• 21 Mark Reynolds, Saberist

• 21 Trying to explain UZR and fielding systems to the uninitiated

• 21 BABIP reader post of the day

• 21 The value of a first round pick

• 21 Do Batters Swing Too Often in a Full Count?

• 21 Near-sighted Marcels

• 20 If you have been disappointed in a player for a long time, and legitimately so…

• 20 Bad game theory application or just bad pitching in general..

• 20 Educating a fan on… reliever impact

• 20 MGL and Tex:

• 20 NBA preseason forecast results

• 20 Breaking report: drug use by athletes

• 20 Sample size and granularity of data

• 19 If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to see it, can it win the MVP?

• 19 Are the Yankees trying to hit more fly balls?

• 19 Best-fielding 1B over the last 3 years

• 19 Replacement-level to the extreme

• 19 What kind of player steals third with 2 outs with his team losing and the batter with a 2-0 count?

• 19 Awards schmawards

• 19 The layman’s version of a PITCHf/x database

• 19 Is UZR limited because the baseline is zeroed-out to that year’s average?

• 19 It’s not the data, it’s the sport

• 19 Why do we like the sports we do?

• 19 Critique on the Clutch study in The Book

• 19 Poz being wrong is right

• 19 This week in… the baseball blogosphere

• 19 If a metric for a player is “all over the place” after a few years, what does that mean?

• 16 Poz getting it wrong again (or at least overstating his case)

• 15 “Fla. School Officials Face Jail for Mealtime Prayer…”

• 14 Mike Silva is trying

• 14 WAR v Win Shares

• 14 Poz is right

• 13 The “Carry” of a Fly Ball

• 13 Vlad’s WAR above borderline-HOF WAR

• 13 Save percentage following rebounds

• 13 Bronson Arroyo speaks

• 13 Unintended consequences or the price that some people pay for something that is good?

• 12 Chance of injury by playing out-of-position

• 12 Bruce Dowbiggin is wrong

• 12 (Future GM) Antonetti on Hafner

• 12 Delaying JJ’s service clock

• 12 Poz is wrong

• 12 Studes takes on WAR graphs

• 12 SME peer review

• 11 Geographical division alignment is stupid

• 11 Number One

• 11 Pitching Around Batters

• 11 Forecasting a team’s W/L record

• 11 The new Kerry Wood

• 11 Alexis Rios

• 10 This month in replacement level talk

• 10 The Mariners summit

• 10 Baseball Cards

• 10 The best of this week at… Baseball-Reference

• 10 Pitch count repository

• 10 Introducing Koko, Marcel’s football-loving cousin

• 10 The Emperors Have No Clothes

• 10 Raul Ibanez at the unreal Citizen’s Bank Park

• 10 Turner, Montana… the Saskatoon of America?

• 09 The Witchhunt

• 08 Terms of Service

• 08 The enemy among us

• 07 Someone asked about stupid manager decisions…

• 07 Non-neutral zone Faceoffs

• 07 Brian Bannister keeps talking, we keep listening

• 07 Regression of Groundball Rates

• 07 Change in true talent level, by score

• 07 Five Reasons to Love Baseball

• 07 Tech Help: My SanDisk Micro Cruzer Flash Drive Won’t Light Up

• 07 We have another Bannister in Max Scherzer

• 06 “The high fastball (out of the zone) is such a tough pitch to lay off of!”

• 06 Fielding Presentation

• 06 Could it be correct to have a lefty pitcher pitch to a righty batter?

• 06 Get a cheap bullpen

• 06 Pitch f/x and the catcher’s target

• 06 Tough times for small-market teams

• 06 With or Without… Saku Koivu (in French)

• 06 More regression from Colin

• 05 Fangraphs fun

• 05 Shout-outs (to saber-themed blogs)

• 05 The Baseball Express

• 05 Another pitch count limit article

• 05 Athletes prevented from participating in high-risk activities

• 05 Catcher defense

• 05 What makes for a good batter/pitcher matchup?

• 05 The hockey replacement level

• 05 The best of this week at BPro

• 05 Six Degrees of WOWY

• 05 The Poz full-time at SI

• 05 The shift, by pitch type

• 04 Ben Christensen, part 2

• 04 The Science of Shortstop

• 04 The ESPN rest-of-season “Projection System”

• 04 Doug Glanville explains the most important part, with a b.s. parenthetical response

• 04 Matt Swartz

• 04 Continually fouling-off 3-2 pitches

• 04 John Dewan and First Basemen Scoops

• 03 The Assetification of our athletes

• 03 It is impossible for a player to have “consistency skills” any more than a computer would have…

• 03 The Publisher of The Book (Potomac Books) has finally paid us our royalties

• 03 Book clubs

• 03 Ichiro, the timeless warrior

• 03 SABR links

• 02 Babe Ruths are playing in Baltimore